Learning Architect

Job Details

Job function:
Human Resources.
Job sub function:
Learning & Instructional Design.
Job category:
People Leader.
Locations:
Horsham, Pennsylvania;
Titusville, New Jersey.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Learning Architect in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA.

The Learning Architect serves as the senior design authority within the Learning Solutions teams, responsible for translating complex business and performance needs into rigorous, strategically aligned learning solution blueprints. Reporting to the Head of Learning Solutions, this role leads high-level needs analysis and solution design—establishing the instructional vision, modality strategy, and architectural framework from which detailed design and content development flows.

In addition to individual design leadership, the Learning Architect manages an agile pool of Learning Designers responsible for detailed design, content creation, and content curation, ensuring the team operates with consistent quality standards, creative excellence, and delivery discipline. This role sits at the intersection of strategic thinking and practical execution, serving as both a thought leader in learning design and an accountable people leader whose team brings that vision to life.

• Lead structured needs analysis in partnership with the Business Partnership team, translating demand intake findings into evidence-based design direction—including performance gap assessment, audience analysis, and environmental scoping—to ensure learning solutions are precisely calibrated to the business customer's needs.
• Develop detailed solution architecture documents and learning blueprints that define modality, instructional approach, sequencing, measurement strategy, and resource requirements, serving as the authoritative design framework for downstream development.
• Lead, deploy, and develop an agile pool of Learning Designers, managing workload allocation, quality standards, and individual performance to ensure the team consistently delivers detailed design and content at a high level of instructional and creative quality.
• Establish and steward design quality standards across the Learning Solutions team, conducting structured reviews of detailed design and content outputs to ensure fidelity to the solution architecture, instructional best practices, and client expectations.
• Serve as the senior design voice in stakeholder engagements, partnering closely with Portfolio Excellence and Business Partnership colleagues to ensure learning solutions are grounded in business context, aligned to capability priorities, and designed for measurable impact.
• Monitor the evolving landscape of learning design practice—including AI‑assisted design, emerging modalities, and evidence‑based instructional research—and translate insights into updated standards, tools, and approaches that keep the function’s design capability future‑forward.

• Support the identification, interviewing, and onboarding of Learning Designer talent, contributing to capability assessments and team composition decisions in partnership with the Head of Learning Solutions.
• Collaborate with the Vendor Management Lead and subject matter experts on the scoping and quality oversight of externally developed content or co‑developed learning solutions.
• Periodically facilitate design‑focused communities of practice or internal knowledge‑sharing sessions that elevate instructional craft across the broader L&D function.

BA/BS required; advanced degree desirable.

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience; agency, consulting, and/or life sciences experience preferred.
• Instructional design mastery—deep expertise in instructional design theory and practice, including adult learning principles, cognitive load theory, performance‑based design, and evidence‑based approaches to learning solution architecture.
• Needs analysis & performance consulting—proven ability to conduct rigorous intake analysis, including stakeholder interviews, performance gap assessments, and environmental scans to inform solution design with precision…