Learning Experience Designer

Job Title: Learning Experience Designer

Team: Product

Location: In-Person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC)

Employment Type: Full-time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date: ASAP

About Braven

We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.

Learn more about Braven’s impact:

https://impactreport.bebraven.org/

https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Learning Experience Designer who will own the design of programming that supports thousands of college students in their journeys to strong postgraduate opportunities.

As a member of the Design Team, which is within the Product Team, you will play a critical role in both improving existing programming and piloting new initiatives that round out the holistic student experience in Braven. One key program you will own is the Professional Mentor Program, which currently serves 800 mentoring pairs a year (and growing), and serves as a key lever in supporting students in attaining internships and other career-accelerating opportunities while in college. You will keep the outcomes and needs of students as well as the changing labor market front and center to determine the future direction of this program as well as potential new programming.

This role is on the Product team and reports directly to the VP, Design.

What You’ll Do

Learning Experience Design (80%)

• Based on quantitative and qualitative data about outcomes, experience and external research, create and improve programming outside the Accelerator college course (e.g. the Professional Mentor Program), inclusive of overall program design, synchronous and asynchronous virtual trainings, and resources
• Conduct and synthesize user research, observations, and feedback to determine root problems to solve in the pursuit of strong student outcomes and experiences
• Collaborate with other designers and members of our team to ensure a consistent and effective arc of experience for our stakeholders

Facilitate & Support Program Execution (20%)

• Effectively facilitate live national trainings and events for hundreds of students and volunteers in the Professional Mentor Program
• Help mentors and mentees problem solve as needed throughout the Professional Mentor Program
• Facilitate and support execution of other new experiences as they are piloted and developed
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of work experience designing clear, engaging, purposeful, and culturally competent learning experiences for adults

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of adult learning theory and instructional design principles and have experience applying them to your designs
• Exceptional writing skills and the ability to flawlessly express ideas clearly and simply
• Strong virtual facilitation skills for adult learning experiences
• Keen design instincts and ability to create effective and beautiful presentation decks that others can easily use to facilitate
• Strong ability to synthesize different kinds of data - observations, user interviews, research, feedback, and quantitative data - to determine root problems and key improvements to make to designs
• Tech savviness and can learn new technologies quickly
• Belief that feedback is vital to your work and are able to process large amounts of it
• Detail-oriented and consistently meet project deadlines
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values
• Experiences that have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population

Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Work Demands

• Ability to work in-p