Senior Manager, LXD Creative Assets

Value Apothecaries; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora University seeks a Senior Manager to lead the LXD Creative Assets and Innovation Studio, driving learning products including simulations, microlearning, and on-demand content. You will own end-to-end production from design to LMS packaging, ensuring accessibility and measurable impact.

Lead a team, partner with SMEs across the U.S., and set reusable design standards. AI-enabled workflows should accelerate scripting, storyboarding, and asset creation while maintaining quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in instructional or learning experience design, digital content creation, or interactive media production.
• 3+ years of experience in a management capacity highly preferred.
• Portfolio demonstrating digital learning products, simulations, or rich multi-media learning with measurable results.
• Proficiency with authoring and media tools (e.g., Articulate Storyline or Rise, Adobe Creative Cloud) and an understanding of LMS, xAPI, and accessibility standards.
• Fluency in English required; Spanish is a plus. Ability to work U.S. business hours.

Responsibilities

• Design and build learning.
• Design and build on-demand courses, microlearning, learning paths, and in-the-flow resources that are easy to find, start, and finish.
• Design simulations, scenario-based learning, and gamified experiences that build skills through realistic practice and feedback.
• Produce your own assets.
• Build and produce your own learning assets from start to finish, including e-learning modules in authoring tools like Articulate Storyline or Rise, scripted and edited videos, screen recordings, audio, graphics, and animations, and package them for LMS deployment.
• Write clear, accessible, on-brand content such as scripts, job aids, and guides.
• Partner with the business.
• Work with SMEs and portfolio managers in U.S. working hours to turn expertise into practical content, and know when a simpler approach will do.
• Define measures of success up front and work with Learning Measurement to evaluate effectiveness.
• Set standards and patterns
• Develop reusable templates, design patterns, and content standards (including xAPI and accessibility requirements) with the studio and Learning Operations.
• Handle business content responsibly, using fictional or de-identified data in examples and following confidentiality and brand guidelines.
• Reimagine production with AI
• Use AI to accelerate scripting, storyboarding, asset creation, localization, and updating content, directing it toward your own design vision. You own the outcome, including its accuracy.

Skills

Learning designer

Portfolio

Strong writer

AI curious

Collaborator

Education

7+ years in instructional/learning design

3+ years management

Portfolio of digital learning

Articulate Storyline/Rise & Adobe CC

English fluency

Tools

Articulate Storyline/Rise

Adobe Creative Cloud

LMS & xAPI

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Job Details

What if the learning our people reach for felt as well-made and intuitive as the best experiences they use outside of work, and stuck like experience?

Cencora University is building a modern learning organization that helps our people build the skills, knowledge, and leadership capabilities to move Cencora forward. The Innovation Design Studio designs and builds the digital and immersive learning that makes that happen. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our LXD Creative Assets and Innovation Studio team that designs and produces learning products inclusive of simulations and multi-media.

In this role you will design and build learning from start to finish: on-demand modules, microlearning, learning paths, scenario-based simulations, interactive stories, video, podcasts, manipulatives for live training, and audio, etc working directly with portfolio managers and subject matter experts. In the first year, the defining work is building reusable design patterns and content standards that make our learning consistent, accessible, and quick to produce with quality and measurable impact.

What We’re Looking For

• A learning designer first. You design for outcomes and behavior change, not seat time.
• A maker. You have a portfolio of shipped digital learning, simulations, or multi-media and the technical skills to build it.
• A strong writer. You make complex ideas clear, and your content reads as though it was written for the learner.
• AI curious and hands-on. You use AI to work faster and better, and you hold a high bar for quality and accuracy.
• A collaborator. You partner easily with SMEs and U.S.-based business colleagues, give and receive critique, and deliver on time.

Responsibilities

• Design and build learning
• Design and build on-demand courses, microlearning, learning paths, and in-the-flow resources that are easy to find, start, and finish.
• Design simulations, scenario-based learning, and gamified experiences that build skills through realistic practice and feedback.
• Produce your own assets
• Build and produce your own learning assets from start to finish, including e-learning modules in authoring tools like Articulate Storyline or Rise, scripted and edited videos, screen recordings, audio, graphics, and animations, and package them for LMS deployment.
• Write clear, accessible, on-brand content such as scripts, job aids, and guides.
• Partner with the business
• Work with SMEs and portfolio managers in U.S. working hours to turn expertise into practical content, and know when a simpler approach will do.
• Define measures of success up front and work with Learning Measurement to evaluate effectiveness.
• Set standards and patterns
• Develop reusable templates, design patterns, and content standards (including xAPI and accessibility requirements) with the studio and Learning Operations.
• Handle business content responsibly, using fictional or de-identified data in examples and following confidentiality and brand guidelines.
• Reimagine production with AI
• Use AI to accelerate scripting, storyboarding, asset creation, localization, and updating content, directing it toward your own design vision. You own the outcome, including its accuracy.

What You Own

• Digital Products
• On-demand and microlearning
• Learning paths
• In-the-flow resources
• Product improvement
• Immersive & Media
• Simulations and scenarios
• Video, audio, and animation
• Interactive stories
• Accessible, on-brand assets
• Standards & Craft
• Templates and design patterns
• xAPI and accessibility
• AI-enabled production
• Peer critique

Education and Skills

• 7+ years in instructional or learning experience design, digital content creation, or interactive media production.
• 3+ years of experience in a management capacity highly preferred.
• Portfolio demonstrating digital learning products, simulations, or rich multi-media learning with measurable results.
• Proficiency with authoring and media tools (e.g., Articulate Storyline or Rise, Adobe Creative Cloud) and an understanding of LMS, xAPI, and accessibility standards.
• Experience applying user-centered design and iterating based on data.
• Fluency in English required; Spanish is a plus. Ability to work U.S. business hours.
• Desirable: experience using generative AI in content production.

What Success Looks Like

Cencora University can increasingly say: Our learning is well made, easy to use, and worth coming back to. Digital and immersive learning follows one set of design and content standards and is visibly on-brand. Time to create and refresh content has dropped as AI-assisted workflows take hold. Learners and leaders cite our learning as us