Senior Manager, Learning Design & Innovation

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $119k / year

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ASPEN DENTAL GROUP, PC

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Aspen Dental Group, PC is a dental care organization dedicated to providing comprehensive dental services to patients while supporting dental professionals in their careers. The company emphasizes the importance of bringing better care to more people by investing in employee success through training, support, and a proven practice model. Aspen Dental's approach includes offering industry-leading pay, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for career advancement, with a commitment to diversity and community impact. With over 25 years of experience, Aspen Dental also contributes to charitable efforts by donating free dental care and focuses on providing a collaborative and inclusive workplace.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, manage performance, and develop the Instructional Design team • Oversee learning solution design and development from discovery through implementation • Monitor workload, priorities, timelines, risks, deliverables, instructional effectiveness, learner experience, accessibility, accuracy, and brand alignment • Translate Learning Design strategy into team priorities, standards, operating practices, and development expectations • Identify and implement responsible AI uses for learning design, development, evaluation, and learner experience • Develop scalable AI workflows, tools, resources, and standards • Advance simulations, scenario-based learning, practice experiences, gamification, rapid-development methods, interactive solutions, and learning embedded in the flow of work • Design and manage structured pilots and proofs of concept, including hypotheses, success measures, timelines, stakeholder expectations, and evaluation plans • Scale successful innovations into reusable tools, templates, standards, playbooks, training, and implementation guidance • Evaluate emerging authoring methods, tools, and platform capabilities with Learning Technology and internal teams • Develop and maintain reusable design resources, templates, frameworks, quality standards, and development guidance • Measure learning design and innovation impact using project data, learner feedback, quality indicators, adoption measures, and business inputs • Partner with Learning Technology, Learning Optimization and Continuous Improvement, Leadership Development, Learning Experience, HR, and business stakeholders • Advise stakeholders on complex or high-visibility initiatives, performance needs, learning strategies, solution direction, and measurable outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred • Equivalent experience in instructional design, learning experience design, or learning innovation may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree • 7+ years of experience in learning and development, instructional design, learning experience design, or a related field • 3+ years of experience leading, coaching, or directly managing learning professionals • Strong experience leading medium- to large-scale learning initiatives from discovery through implementation • Experience applying adult learning principles, instructional design methodologies, performance consulting, and learner-centered design practices • Experience exploring or implementing AI-enabled learning solutions, emerging learning technologies, or development efficiencies • Experience with simulations, scenario-based learning, gamification, rapid development, interactive learning, or other innovative learning approaches • Ability to move ideas from concept through pilot, evaluation, recommendation, and scalable implementation • Strong project and workload management skills, including balancing team capacity, competing priorities, timelines, and quality • Experience developing reusable templates, standards, tools, frameworks, or design systems • Ability to use data, learner feedback, and business input to evaluate learning effectiveness and recommend improvements • Strong business acumen connecting learning design decisions to operational priorities and measurable outcomes • Ability to consult with senior leaders, business partners, and subject matter experts • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills • Comfortable balancing strategic leadership, people management, and hands-on involvement in a fast-paced, evolving environment

🏖️ Benefits

• 15% bonus opportunity