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Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation (MLFC) at Arizona State University seeks a Director of Learning Design to join the Office of Design and Learning, a team dedicated to designing and developing learning environments, experiences, and pathways that provide access to the knowledge core of the university.

The Director will serve as a member of the Office of Design and Learning leadership team and work alongside faculty members, staff, administrators, and external partners to advance teaching and learning excellence across a wide range of educational contexts. From degree programs and online learning experiences to professional learning, microcredentials, and emerging educational opportunities, the Director will help shape how learning is designed, delivered, and continuously improved for learners and communities. This includes helping the college navigate the opportunities and challenges created by generative AI and other emerging technologies as they reshape teaching, learning, assessment, and educational practice.

This role is ideal for a collaborative, people-centered, and systems-minded leader who values both people and process. The Director will lead and support a talented team of learning design professionals while actively contributing to the design, improvement, and advancement of learning experiences, organizational systems, and partnerships across the college. Working closely with colleagues throughout the university, the Director will help build the conditions that enable innovative, learner-centered, and evidence-informed work to thrive at scale.

• Partner with the Office of Design and Learning team, faculty members, and academic leaders to advance learning design strategies that support excellence, access, and impact across academic and learning enterprise offerings.
• Lead and support the instructional design team in designing, developing, implementing, and continuously improving learning environments, experiences, and pathways for learners and audiences.
• Lead implementation of initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness and support the adoption of innovative practices, technologies, and approaches to teaching and learning.
• Lead, support, and develop a team of learning design professionals through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and professional learning opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and people-centered culture that values inquiry, innovation, shared ownership, and continuous growth.
• Promote scholarly inquiry, reflective practice, and the dissemination of knowledge related to learning design, teaching innovation, and organizational improvement.
• Advocate for learner-centered design, teaching excellence, and continuous improvement across educational contexts.

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field including two (2) years managerial experience; OR, any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
• Master’s degree or higher in instructional design, learning design, learning sciences, educational technology, higher education, organizational learning, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams responsible for learning design, instructional design, educational innovation, faculty support, or related functions.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with faculty members, academic leaders, and subject matter experts to design, develop, and improve learning experiences across multiple educational contexts or delivery modalities.
• Demonstrated experience developing or improving organizational systems, processes, or practices that support effective and scalable educational design and delivery.
• Demonstrated experience exploring, evaluating, or implementing generative AI and other emerging technologies in teaching, learning, learning design, or knowledge work environments.
• Demonstrated effective communication skills.
• Ability to manage and adjust to changing priorities, including handling time-sensitive tasks and resolving conflicts.

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation creates knowledge, mobilizes people, and takes action to improve education. MLFC faculty create knowledge by drawing from a wide range of academic disciplines to gain insight into important questions about the process of learning, the practice of teaching and the effects of education policy. MLFC mobilizes people through bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs, through non-degree professional development programs and through socially embedded, multilateral community engagement. MLFC takes action by bringing people and ideas together to increase the capabilities of individual educators and the performance of education systems. Aligned with ASU’s charter, MLFC is committed to advancing inclusive excellence in curricula, programming and institutional relationships.

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Graduate Assistant, Intern and part-time positions are counted as half time for experience equivalency, meaning one year equals six months of experience.

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Arizona State University is a tobacco-free university. For details visit the wellness site. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. Notice of Availability of the ASU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online; hard copies can be requested from the ASU Police Department. Relocation resources and pre-employment screening information are provided. This position is safety/security sensitive and will include a fingerprint check. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background and fingerprint checks.

About Arizona State University

Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the country’s most innovative school, ASU is a large, multi-campus public university with a broad mission to provide access to higher education and to advance knowledge through research and public service.