Remote Senior Learning Design Leader

Cengage Group; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Learning Design professional to advance higher education materials and career-training curricula. You will apply learning science to design and update content, collaborate with editors, authors, and vendors, and ensure alignment with strategy and accessibility goals.

The role emphasizes remote collaboration, content innovation, and evidence-based design, with a focus on improving learner outcomes across curricula and disciplines.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of full-time work experience, preferably in a corporate environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel, with file-sharing tools.
• Experience with applied AI.
• Strong verbal and written communication; audience-centric analysis, persuasion, influence, and documentation.
• Ability to collaborate with peers in a remote-work environment.

Responsibilities

• Inform and update author content and pedagogy with learning theory, currency, and career readiness.
• Serve as the student journey and discipline-level learning design expert, collaborating with colleagues in editorial, business strategy, marketing, authoring and content creation, and production.
• Review content and update plans against the editorial team strategy, quality standards, research-based insights, and protocols.
• Design digital content to fill gaps and seize opportunities for improving learning, based on platform functionalities and usage statistics.
• Design and advocate for improvements in accessibility, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of content and authoring.
• Collaborate with authors/subject matter experts and team members throughout curriculum development.
• Establish and maintain field tools and guidelines for field content creation/creators.
• Support freelance and vendor content creators to ensure content quality and timely delivery.

Skills

3–5 years experience in full-time work

Strong verbal and writtenCommunication

Collaboration and interpersonal skills

Remote-work collaboration

Experience with AI tools

Microsoft Office proficiency (Outlook,

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

File-sharing tools

Job description

Cengage Group is seeking a Learning Design professional to advance higher education materials and career-training curricula. You will apply learning science to design and update content, collaborate with editors, authors, and vendors, and ensure alignment with strategy and accessibility goals.

The role emphasizes remote collaboration, content innovation, and evidence-based design, with a focus on improving learner outcomes across curricula and disciplines.