The posting
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
Role Summary
You are passionate about designing learning experiences that help social sector leaders and staff grow, apply new ideas, and strengthen their impact. Your colleagues describe you as a builder, a creative problem solver, and a committed lifelong learner. You bring deep expertise in adult learning and are energized by turning complex ideas into engaging online courses, virtual learning experiences, and practical resources that meet real learner needs.
You have an eye for what makes learning stick. You understand how adults learn, how to translate learning objectives into compelling experiences, and how to design for application and transformation. You are equally comfortable developing a self-paced digital course, designing an engaging live virtual learning experience, creating a practical tool or resource, or helping a subject matter expert turn their knowledge into something learners can readily understand and use.
Our community is growing, and so is the impact of our work to move toward a society where every person is empowered. At Stand Together Foundation, we advance this vision by building and stewarding a community of influential nonprofit leaders and staff who address some of the biggest challenges facing our communities with an empowerment approach to how they measure, manage, and serve. We are building one of the largest communities of social entrepreneurs and changemakers in the country, and this role will be instrumental in creating the resources and learning experiences that empower them to scale their impact.
As our Sr. Learning Manager, Digital Learning & Content, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of digital and virtual learning across our products and platforms. You will create online courses, virtual programs, learning resources, and other scalable products, many of which will live within our LMS, Paradigm (built on the Circle platform). Working across teams, you will bring together ideas, subject-matter expertise, learner insights, and content to ensure every learning experience is anchored in our vision and responsive to customer needs. You will help make Paradigm a rich and useful learning environment by ensuring the content and experiences available are engaging, relevant, and designed to help learners put ideas into practice and transform themselves, their organizations, and ultimately, our communities.
Remote candidates will be considered on a case by case basis
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design of high-quality learning experiences across digital, virtual, and blended formats.
- Apply adult learning principles to translate learning objectives into engaging, application-oriented experiences.
- Design and develop asynchronous online courses, facilitated virtual learning experiences, and other digital learning products.
- Guide internal stakeholders and subject matter experts through the instructional design process, helping clarify audience needs, learning outcomes, and effective learning approaches.
- Facilitate virtual learning experiences and continually improve approaches to online engagement and learning.
- Supervise, coach, and/or mentor learning designers, facilitators, coordinators, or creative contributors.
- Lead the development of high-priority learning products, including online courses, virtual learning experiences, written resources, toolkits, guides, and platform-based learning assets.
- Translate complex concepts and subject-matter expertise into clear, compelling, and accessible learning content.
- Develop and curate content systems that increase quality, relevance, usability, and learner engagement while enabling efficient development and reuse.
- Partner across teams to source, shape, and package ideas into scalable products that support broader learnerjourneys.
- Continually seek opportunities to improve existing products based on learner needs, feedback, and evidence about what is helping people learn and apply ideas.
- Partner with internal stakeholders on our Paradigm strategy and platform management to translate priorities and learner needs into effective learning products.
- Experiment with new digital learning approaches that increase engagement, application, and value for learners.
What Success Looks Like
- Learning experiences are engaging, high quality, and grounded in strong adult learning practices.
- Learners demonstrate increased understanding, confidence, and application of the ideas and principles explored through our learning products.
- High-priority online courses, virtual experiences, and digital resources move efficiently from idea to launch and are adopted by intended audiences.
- Paradigm contains a growing portfolio of compelling, useful learning experiences that support the needs of our Catalyst community and other priority audiences.
- Learner insights, feedback, and engagement data are routinely used to improve products and inform future development.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in instructional design, adult learning, learning and development, digital learning, curriculum development, or related fields.
- Experience working with and/or designing learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders and staff.
- Deep knowledge of adult learning theory and demonstrated ability to apply it in practice.
- Significant experience designing and developing asynchronous online courses and digital learning experiences.
- Experience designing and facilitating engaging virtual learning experiences.
- Demonstrated ability to turn complex concepts into clear, compelling, and practical learning content.
- Experience creating a range of learning products, including courses, resources, guides, toolkits, and other digital assets.
- Familiarity working within an LMS or digital learning platform, as well as with tools and technology that enhance virtual learning; deep platform administration or product-management expertise is not required.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to move multiple learning products from concept through delivery.
- Ability to use qualitative and quantitative learner inputs to evaluate and improve learning experiences.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong judgment, initiative, curiosity, and collaboration skills.
- Passion for empowering social entrepreneurs and helping people realize their potential.
Standout Candidates May Also Bring
- Direct experience in the nonprofit sector, whether through full-time employment, board service, or significant volunteer engagement.
- Experience designing learning for leadership development, organizational development, or management.
- Experience supervising or coaching learning designers, facilitators, coordinators, or creative contributors.
- Experience with authoring tools, LMS platforms, or other digital learning technologies.
- Familiarity with Principles of Human Progress, Principle Based Management, or similar principle-based frameworks.
What We Offer
- Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
- A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,400 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
- Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.
