Learning Solutions Architect

Harvard Business Publishing

(HBP) is an idea-driven company with a commitment to improving the practice of management. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University serving customers across three primary markets: educational institutions, corporations, and individual managers.
- Harvard Business Publishing’s Corporate Learning

division targets enterprises that recognize leadership development as a source of competitive advantage. The Corporate Learning (CL) team’s expertise is in creating rich, interactive learning experiences that develop leaders who shape their organizations’ futures by making smart decisions at critical moments.

What you'll do:
The Learning Solutions Architect (SA) is a member of the Design Center of Excellence in the Global Learning Services Group, part of Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning. The SA role reports to the Associate Director of the Design Center of Excellence. The SA leverages advanced knowledge and expertise in instructional design, leadership development, and the breadth of HBP content and offerings to provide design services, reference designs and ongoing innovations to clients and Client Engagement Team (CET) members.

As part of the Design COE, the SA collaborates with Principal Learning Partners and others in the CET as both a design resource and an advisor/consultant on available solutions, new content and intellectual property, and design innovations. The SA is adept at leading independent design and curation projects.
- Design Consulting
- Works with the client team’s post-sale to advise on available content, activities, and assets that could be leveraged in detailed designs for client solutions.
- Adept at independently managing a design project end to end. (Is this the same as the last bullet? If yes, I would omit this one
- Creates impactful digital and blended modules and experiences with appropriate client customization and contextualization.
- Displays detail orientation to meet the required quality standards in client deliverables.
- Adept at building solutions from the stage of storyboard to final design and development. Works effectively with clients to work through the needs-identification, review, and finalization process.
- Innovation and Efficiency
- Drives reuse of existing solution designs in new scenarios to reduce development time and increase the profitability of engagements.
- Supports launch of new offerings and priority content by creating reference designs and helping with the training of our client engagement teams on those offerings.
- Has the ability to propose new approaches in response to changing client contexts.
- Collaborate and communicate
- Works effectively with PLP, Digital Learning Specialists and RM’s to meet client requirements.

Displays intellectual fortitude wrt. HBP’s know-how, content and frameworks.

What we're looking for:

- 8+ years of applicable experience
- Demonstrated ability and experience in the following:

- Designing leadership and management development programs.
- Delivering consulting and professional services for complex learning solutions and/or working in a learning and development organization.
- Developing and sharing of thought leadership on learning and leadership development trends.
- Adept at having productive client conversations.
- Broad-based knowledge of Learning and Development.
- Knowledge about learning technologies would be preferred but not mandatory.
- Comfortable and effective in having consultative conversations with senior stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills combined with excellent collaboration and teaming skills.
- Innovative, flexible, and client-focused approach to consulting.
- Self-motivated and able to thrive in a remote working environment.
- Travel requirements approximately 10%.

What we offer

As a mission-driven global company, Harvard Business Publishing is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, trust, and engagement where everyone is welcome, valued, respected, and feels they belong. In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits package, we offer meaningful programs focused on career development and employee wellness, such as education reimbursement and early-release Summer Fridays