Learning Experience Designer
Impact: Employee capability and organisational performance through expert learning experience design
Design engaging and effective learning experiences for corporate training, higher education, and online learning platforms. Apply learning science principles, instructional design models, and multimedia design to create courses, workshops, and blended learning programmes that achieve measurable learning outcomes.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- 60% Team / 40% Solo
- Client facing
- Sometimes
- Impact visibility
- Moderate
- Travel
- 5 to 10% for workshops and client meetings
- Schedule flexibility
- Flexible
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 38 to 50 hours/week
- Stress level
- Low
At a glance
- Median salary
- $125,000
- Entry-level
- $65,000 - $90,000
- Senior
- $210,000+
- Growth by 2033
- 15% (faster than average)
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High - 65 to 80% growth from entry to senior
- Typical student debt
- Low
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- 55
Soft skills
- 45
Technical complexity: Moderate
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Master's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 2 to 4 years
- Years to senior
- 5 to 8 years
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Instructional Designer > Learning Experience Designer > Senior LXD > Head of Learning Design > Chief Learning Officer
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 20% moderate risk as AI automates some course development
- AI disruption risk
- Moderate
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 7/10
- Meaning
- 7/10
- Work-life balance
- 6.5/10
- Prestige
- 7/10
- Social perception
- High