Associate Director, Learning Architecture

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world.  We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.  At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Human Resources

Job Sub Function:

Learning & Instructional Design

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an Associate Director, Learning Architecture located in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Purpose:J&J Innovative Medicine is seeking an exceptional Associate Director, Learning Architecture to serve as a strategic design authority and trusted advisor to J&J IM North America Learning Excellence teams. This role, part of the Learning Excellence Organization (LEO), is critical to ensuring learning solutions are intentionally designed, performance driven, and aligned to business outcomes that ultimately serve patients.

As a Learning Architect, you will lead the front-end definition, end-to-end learning experience design, and learning strategy for a variety of initiatives, partnering closely with Learning Business Partners (LBPs), Program/Learning Execution Managers, content creators, and vendors. You will ensure that learning solutions are grounded in clear problem definition, behavior change, and measurable impact.

Our work is grounded in the 6 Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning (the 6Ds), with a strong emphasis on learning transfer, application, and sustained performance improvement. Success in this role requires strong learning design capability, the ability to influence without formal authority, and comfort operating at both the strategic and execution levels.

Key responsibilities include:

Learning Strategy & Design

• Collaborate with Learning Business Partners (LBP) and/or Program / Learning Execution Managers (PM/LEM) to conduct a thorough needs analysis, clearly defining the business problem, expected performance outcomes, target behaviors, success measures, and learning scope
• Architect learner-centric, evidence-based learning experiences using the right modality mix for a modern learner, grounded in adult learning theory
• Design the full learning ecosystem, including pre-work, core experiences, pull-through, reinforcement, sustainment, and measurement strategy
• Develop high-level design documents, learning journeys, storyboards and prototypes. On a project-by-project basis, may also be responsible for developing detailed design and partnering with a Developer/Creator (internal or agency) to develop the content

Partnership & Influence

• Facilitate design working sessions with stakeholders to align on learning approach, validate assumptions, and gain commitment to performance outcomes
• Oversee and/or support teams (internal or agency) conducting detailed design and development activities to build out learning solutions, ensuring development adheres to LEO learning standards and design intent
• Act as a connector across LEO (Digital, Measurement, Creation) to create cohesive, high-quality solutions

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

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