Associate Director, Learning Solutions & Design; Remote

About RTX

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Associate Director of Learning Solutions Design leads the enterprise strategy, architecture, and standards for scalable learning solutions supporting capability development across RTX. This leader manages an instructional and digital design team responsible for creating high-quality synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning experiences aligned to business, talent, and workforce priorities. The role also leads the learning experience and content strategy for RTX University, helping evolve RTX U as the enterprise destination for development.

This leader combines learning strategy, performance consulting, design expertise, and technology acumen to determine when to build, buy, curate, reuse, or retire learning solutions and to continuously improve the quality, scalability, and impact of RTX learning.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of instructional and digital designers responsible for instructor-led, digital, blended, simulation-based, and performance-support solutions.
• Set the strategy and architecture for enterprise learning solutions, translating business, talent, leadership, and capability priorities into scalable learning experiences.
• Lead the learning experience and content strategy for RTX University, including learning architecture, pathways, curation, discovery, and continued evolution of the platform as the enterprise destination for development.
• Establish and apply a build, buy, curate, reuse, and retire strategy that improves quality, speed, scalability, and investment effectiveness while reducing unnecessary duplication.
• Serve as a performance consultant and strategic advisor, partnering with stakeholders to diagnose business, performance, and capability needs and determine the appropriate learning or non-learning solution.
• Establish and maintain learning design governance, including standards, templates, accessibility requirements, brand alignment, quality assurance, and content lifecycle practices.
• Advance responsible use of AI and emerging learning technologies to improve learning design, development, curation, personalization, and team productivity.
• Evolve the capabilities and ways of working of the instructional design function as technology, AI, learner expectations, and business needs continue to change.
• Build strong partnerships across business, HR, Talent, Learning, technology, communications, and other functions to align priorities and drive adoption of enterprise learning solutions and standards.
• Advise and influence senior stakeholders on learning strategies, solution recommendations, tradeoffs, and investment decisions.
• Partner with Learning Operations and technology teams to ensure learning solutions integrate effectively across the LMS, RTX University, and the broader learning technology ecosystem.
• Use learner insights, adoption data, performance measures, and business outcomes to evaluate effectiveness and continuously improve learning solutions.
• Prioritize work and allocate team and vendor resources across multiple enterprise initiatives based on business impact, capacity, timelines, and investment.
• Manage external vendors, production partners, and associated budgets as needed.
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