Remote Senior Learning Design Manager

Cengage Group; Jacksonville (FL); Remote; USD 77,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage is seeking Learning Managers to advance higher education content design and delivery. You will guide content strategy, collaborate across editorial, strategy, marketing, and production, and ensure alignment with learning standards and research-based insights.

The role emphasizes accessibility, equity, and collaborative curriculum development. You will work with editorial managers, content creators, and external partners to improve course materials and learning experiences, leveraging

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of full-time work experience, preferably in a corporate environment.
• Educational or professional background in instructional design or learning design.
• Experience designing inclusive content for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Inform and update author content and pedagogy with universal and portfolio-specific perspective based in learning theory, currency, and career readiness.
• Serve as the student journey and discipline-level learning design expert, collaborating with editorial, business strategy, marketing, authoring and content creation, and production.
• Review new and existing content and update plans against the editorial team strategy, Cengage’s quality learning standards, research-based insights, and established protocols.
• Design digital content to fill gaps and seize opportunities for improving learning, based on insights into platform functionalities, user experience and content 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/industry partners and team members throughout the curriculum development process, seeking out varied perspectives and expertise.
• Establish and maintain field tools and guidelines for field content creation/creators.
• Support freelance and vendor content creators as necessary to ensure content quality and timely delivery. Develop new authoring talent for the field and learning needs and understanding of digital product and use of authoring tools.
• Apply emerging learning trends and discipline-specific guidelines to continuously innovate and improve learning designs. Stay current with EdTech and subject area trends, key competitive developments, learning science research, and content design standards.

Skills

Innovation

Learning science

Communication

Collaboration

Authoring talent

Remote work adaptability

Tools

Microsoft Office

Applied AI

Job description

Cengage is seeking Learning Managers to advance higher education content design and delivery. You will guide content strategy, collaborate across editorial, strategy, marketing, and production, and ensure alignment with learning standards and research-based insights.

The role emphasizes accessibility, equity, and collaborative curriculum development. You will work with editorial managers, content creators, and external partners to improve course materials and learning experiences, leveraging