Senior Learning Experience Architect

Illumina; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Illumina is seeking a Senior Learning Experience Designer to translate talent priorities into engaging content for leaders, managers and staff. You will develop blended learning journeys, curate resources, and collaborate with Talent Management, SMEs and external partners to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled tools, learner feedback, and evidence-based design to improve accessibility and impact across a global workforce. Hybrid, US-based with strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience in learning experience design, instructional design, talent development, leadership development, organizational development, or a related field.
• Experience developing blended learning experiences that incorporate instructor-led, digital, experiential, and self-directed approaches.
• Ability to translate defined business and learning needs into engaging content and practical performance-support resources.
• Strong project coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience collaborating with subject matter experts, internal stakeholders, and external providers to deliver learning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve learning experiences and content that support leadership capability, manager effectiveness, employee development, and priority workforce skills.
• Contribute to blended learning journeys by developing instructor-led, digital, experiential, and self-directed learning components based on defined objectives and audience needs.
• Create practical learning and performance-support resources, including facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, toolkits, manager resources, FAQs, templates, example libraries, and microlearning.
• Collaborate with Talent Management colleagues, subject matter experts and external partners to develop, test, and deliver learning solutions within established program strategies and standards.
• Curate and adapt internal and external learning content for specific audiences, using learning technologies and AI-enabled tools where appropriate.
• Develop learning, communication, and enablement materials that support employee and leader adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Coordinate learning deliverables, timelines, stakeholder input, and vendor activities for assigned initiatives.
• Maintain learning content and knowledge resources to ensure accuracy, relevance, accessibility, and consistency.
• Gather and analyze learner feedback, participation data, and available performance indicators to identify and implement improvements to content and delivery.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication

Learning design

Adult learning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Workday Learning

LinkedIn Learning

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

Illumina is seeking a Senior Learning Experience Designer to translate talent priorities into engaging content for leaders, managers and staff. You will develop blended learning journeys, curate resources, and collaborate with Talent Management, SMEs and external partners to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled tools, learner feedback, and evidence-based design to improve accessibility and impact across a global workforce. Hybrid, US-based with strong growth potential.