Principal Learning and Development Architect

Expedia; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group in Seattle seeks an experienced Enterprise Learning Architect to design scalable learning ecosystems across multiple domains, translate business priorities into curricula, and establish standards for engaging, accessible training.

You will partner with senior stakeholders and technology leaders to align investments, create AI learning pathways for Technology job families, and lead global programs that drive measurable capability growth through data-informed improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and significant experience designing and architecting enterprise learning solutions.
• Experience owning strategy and architecture across multiple learning programs, domains, or capabilities.
• Expertise in learning design principles, adult learning theory, curriculum architecture, learning technologies, evaluation methods.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise learning strategies and experiences addressing organizational capability needs.
• Translate learner insights and performance data into scalable learning architectures and curricula.
• Lead end-to-end learning ecosystems, including needs analysis and delivery models.
• Establish standards and reusable patterns for accessible learning experiences.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align learning investments with priorities.
• Design role-based AI learning pathways for Technology job families.

Skills

AI learning tools

Learning design principles

Adult learning theory

Curriculum architecture

Data-informed improvement

Stakeholder collaboration

End-to-end learning ecosystems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in learning and development or related

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

In this role, you will:

• Architect enterprise learning and development strategies, frameworks, and experiences that address complex organizational capability needs and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Translate business priorities, learner insights, and performance data into scalable learning architectures, curricula, and development solutions across multiple domains.
• Lead the design of end-to-end learning ecosystems, including needs analysis, solution architecture, content strategy, delivery models, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Establish standards, principles, and reusable patterns that enable consistent, accessible, and engaging learning experiences across the organization.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, subject-matter experts, learning teams, Developer Experience and technology leaders to align learning investments with organizational priorities and drive adoption.
• Design role-based AI learning pathways and playbooks for Technology job families, extending the developer enablement model in partnership with Developer Experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, instructional design, education, organizational development, business, technology, or a related field.
• Significant professional experience designing and architecting enterprise learning, capability-building, instructional design, or organizational development solutions.
• Experience owning strategy and architecture across multiple learning programs, domains, or organizational capabilities, rather than a single course or learning asset.
• Demonstrated expertise in learning design principles, adult learning theory, curriculum architecture, learning technologies, evaluation methods, and data-informed improvement.
• Hands‑on use of AI tools in daily work and experience designing AI learning for technical audience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong hands‑on AI fluency and technical credibility: uses AI tools every day to design, prototype and test learning, and can teach technical audiences in the context of their own tools and workflows.
• Experience building role‑based learning pathways and playbooks across multiple technical job families (for example product, program management, data, design and engineering leadership), adapting a common, tool‑agnostic framework to each role’s real work.
• Experience designing ways to measure whether people’s AI skills and behaviors actually improved, and connecting that to usage data and business results without overstating cause and effect.
• A track record of leading technology‑driven behavior change through influence, including turning skeptical stakeholders into partners and adapting to organizational decisions without formal authority.
• Experience designing and facilitating hands‑on learning for leaders at every level, and scaling it across global teams through champions, lab leaders or train‑the‑trainer models.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and perks

• medical coverage
• dental coverage
• vision coverage
• paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness and travel reimbursement
• travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This employer participates in E-Verify.

The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.