# Senior Educational Program Designer **Company**: Western Governors University (WGU) **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $80,700.00 - $121,000.00 **Category**: Education **Industry**: Education **Apply**: https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Salt-Lake-City-UT/Senior-Educational-Product-Designer_JR-025809?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_06600a1b-8af ## Description We are seeking a Senior Educational Program Designer to join our team. As a thought leader and advocate for new and emerging program design, you will lead and facilitate the design of competency-based higher education programs that emphasize students' ability to acquire and demonstrate skills. Responsibilities: - Break down complex problems and explore ways to delight users with tools that solve their problems efficiently and effectively - Collaborate and partner with cross-functional teams of program development, academic, operations, and other stakeholders - Design programs that deliver on the promise of competency-based education to provide efficiency, flexibility, personalization, achievement of goals, and fit with industry expectations - Design programs that promote social mobility and equity - Ensure that program designs maximize broad access, including for underserved students, industry relevance, learning, and financial sustainability - Apply best practices in backward program design to the context of CBE (Competency-based Education) programs - Quickly discover and prototype potential options, then weigh trade-offs between choices - Anticipate, advise upon, and document the cost, scope, and implementation effort of competing program design options - Apply a systems-thinking approach to help collaborators consider all elements of program design - Collaborate on the identification of student personas and ensure pathways efficiently meet their needs - Conduct industry and outside standards research and align program designs to industry and outside standard needs - Select outcomes and design programs in meaningful ways - Assess the sustainability of a program design at scale over its lifecycle - Recommend tools and technologies that achieve scale while maintaining quality programming - Set success metrics - Thoroughly and beautifully document the resulting program design to guide development decisions that uphold the integrity of the design as well as provide a historical record for decisions that were made - Establish a model for training/education for faculty, mentors, enrollment counselors, and all other stakeholders; work directly with students during the deployment of programs and courses - Ensure the overall quality and effectiveness of training/education for faculty, mentors, and enrollment counselors - Communicate solutions to stakeholders in a manner that simplifies complexity and generates excitement - Facilitate meetings and brainstorming sessions that are organized and productive - Advocate for high standards of excellence in providing delightful and rewarding user experiences, and proactively support the team in achieving them - Provide thought leadership for new and emerging techniques for competency-based education Requirements: - Three or more years' experience within the fields of product, interaction, and visual design/development - Bachelor's degree - Background in online learning and/or development of educational products - Background in metrics-driven, evidence-based decision making - Portfolio or work samples showcasing product design prowess, creativity, and depth of thought, coupled with fluency in best practices for interaction design, visual design, and prototyping - Experience working effectively on cross-organizational teams Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree or Ph.D. in a relevant field - Experience creating cross-contextual learning experiences that are born mobile, social-by-design, gamified, or non-linear with student-driven pathways - Proven record of developing and producing quality assessment and learning experiences using established development and production processes and methodologies - Demonstrated understanding of the higher education environment - Demonstrated success with change management, particularly stabilizing and structuring diffuse and ambiguous situations Benefits: - Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare - Health savings account and flexible spending account - Basic and voluntary life insurance - Disability coverage - Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages - Legal and identity theft coverage - Retirement savings plan - Wellbeing program - Discounted WGU tuition - Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual - Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual - 11 paid holidays - Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave ## Skills ### Required - product design - interaction design - visual design - prototyping - competency-based education ### Nice to have - change management - higher education - metrics-driven decision making --- Source: [Apply at wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Salt-Lake-City-UT/Senior-Educational-Product-Designer_JR-025809?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)