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Learning Design Architect

Genentech
United States, California, South San Francisco
Jun 03, 2025
The Position

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That's what makes us Genentech.

The Opportunity

The Learning & Skill Development (LSD) organization plays a key role in installing a digital culture and mindset across the Commercial and Medical Group (CMG) as well as providing every CMG customer - be it employee, manager, healthcare provider, and patient - with the information and skills that they need next, when they need it, where they need it. LSD is pioneering advances in skills management, digital learning, experiential learning, and workflow learning. Reporting to the Director of Learning Design, the Learning Design Architect (LDA) builds the bridge between business needs and the learning and organizational change management required to achieve strategic outcomes. The LDA develops the strategy for learner journeys and curriculum content to drive business needs through skill building across multiple roles and business units.

Key Responsibilities

  • The LDA displays a broad understanding of the organization and how to drive skill and behavioral change across a network of job roles to achieve organizational transformation

  • Develops domain expertise and a narrative thread for the targeted transformation area, maintains skill maps across all business units/job roles with a bias for action and strategic mindset

  • Partner with Learning Business Partners (LBP) to analyze emerging business problems outside of transformation focus, extract relevant data and insights to inform design decisions.

  • Designs, develops, and maintains role-based learning journey maps that identify all skill needs and produce the appropriate training in order to drive the organization's 2-3 year transformation strategy

  • Uses quantitative and qualitative data to inform learning design decisions and to create strategic learning journeys for multiple roles.

  • Identify relevant delivery methods based on the business problem and audience. This requires a solid understanding of technologies used in delivering learning at scale, including authoring tools, workflow learning tools, learning management systems, and skill management systems

  • Quickly assemble cross-functional teams of instructional designers, multimedia designers, facilitators, and subject matter experts to design and develop learning products. Set deadlines and pace to deliver learning products in a timely fashion

  • Partner with instructional designers to develop content maps, detailed design documents, storyboards, prototypes, and finished products as relevant for all types of learning media, including eLearning, ILT, podcasts, assessments, etc

  • Mentor and coach instructional designers to ensure the success of projects and support personal development

Who You Are

  • You have a Masters Degree or doctorate degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, or Curriculum Design or related field

  • 8-10 years of experience developing strategies and designing role-based learning journeys in large, complex organizations

  • Demonstrated experience leading and navigating across a matrixed team with the ability to quickly organize functional teams to develop and deliver learning projects

  • Demonstrated ability to work on multiple complex projects simultaneously

  • You are highly analytical and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to consult, deliver presentations to, and influence decisions of senior business leaders

Preferred

  • Experience working in the Pharma, Biotech or Healthcare industries

This role is based in SSF, and relocation benefits are not available

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of California is $161,400 to $299,700. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants.

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