Learning Designer Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Learning Designer roles in the U.S. qualify as specialty occupations under the H-1B visa and E-3 visas, since employers routinely require a bachelor's degree in instructional design, education technology, or a related field. Sponsors file a Labor Condition Application before you can start, so targeting companies with active LCA filing history shortens your path to an offer.
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JR-8855
Location:
10 Brookline Place, BROOKLINE, MA 02445
Category:
Operations
Employment Type:
Full time
Work Location:
Remote: occasional onsite
Salary/Pay Rate:
$88,000.00 - $101,400.00 per year
Overview
The Learning Experience Designer (LXD) partners with teams across Dana-Farber to identify performance and learning needs and develop solutions that help people succeed in their work. The LXD owns learning projects from intake and discovery through design, development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Working directly with stakeholders and subject matter experts, the LXD seeks to understand the business need, audience, desired performance, current workflows, barriers, and measures of success before recommending a solution. The LXD determines whether learning is the appropriate response and recommends the right combination of learning, communication, reinforcement, job aids, process guidance, or other performance support.
The LXD personally designs and develops learning solutions across modalities, including in-person, virtual, blended, and self-paced experiences, as well as videos, simulations, job aids, and other resources that support performance at the point of work. Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life-changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Consults with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business and performance needs, audiences, workflows, barriers, constraints, and desired outcomes. Conducts needs analysis, tests assumptions, and determines whether learning is an appropriate response.
- Develops learning strategies and recommends appropriate solutions, which may include instructor-led or virtual learning, eLearning, blended experiences, videos, simulations, practice and reinforcement, job aids, communications, process guidance, or other performance support.
- Manages learning projects from intake through implementation, establishing scope, outcomes, milestones, responsibilities, delivery approaches, and measures of success while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and managing multiple priorities.
- Designs and personally develops learning solutions across modalities, creating the outlines, scripts, storyboards, scenarios, assessments, multimedia, facilitator materials, learner resources, and other assets needed to bring each solution to life.
- Applies adult learning, accessibility, inclusive design, usability, and Dana-Farber standards throughout design and development. Leads stakeholder and SME reviews, reconciles feedback, verifies accuracy, and appropriately challenges requests that do not support agreed performance or learning outcomes.
- Tests, pilots, publishes, and supports implementation of learning solutions, including deployment through Workday Learning and other applicable platforms. Partners with learning technology administrators as needed and may pilot or facilitate learning experiences to support successful implementation.
- Defines measures of success and evaluates learning solutions using available learner, stakeholder, learning, and performance data. Uses findings and feedback to improve solutions and maintains learning products throughout their lifecycle.
- Contributes to the Learning team's shared practices and continuous improvement through peer review, reusable standards and templates, quality assurance, and the responsible use of approved AI and emerging learning technologies.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong performance consulting and needs analysis skills, with the ability to identify underlying performance needs, work through ambiguity, test assumptions, and determine when learning is or is not the appropriate solution.
- Strong instructional and learning experience design skills grounded in adult learning and learning science, with the ability to design effective experiences and pathways across in-person, virtual, blended, self-paced, and performance-support formats.
- Demonstrated end-to-end development capability, including the ability to personally create high-quality digital, instructor-led, multimedia, and performance-support solutions using tools such as Articulate Storyline and Rise, Camtasia, Adobe products, or comparable technologies.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple projects from discovery through implementation while providing clear visibility into scope, status, risks, timelines, and decisions.
- Strong consultation, communication, and relationship-management skills, including the ability to establish credibility, influence without direct authority, navigate differing perspectives, provide thoughtful recommendations, and appropriately challenge stakeholder assumptions or requests.
- Working knowledge of learning technologies and standards, including learning management systems, SCORM or comparable content standards, accessibility, testing, publishing, completion tracking, and responsible use of AI and emerging technologies.
- Ability to develop meaningful learning and performance outcomes, practice, assessments, and measures of success and use available data, feedback, and evaluation findings to improve learning solutions.
- Strong writing, visual communication, quality assurance, and attention to detail, with demonstrated commitment to accessibility, inclusive design, accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, education, learning and development, psychology, organizational development, communications, or related discipline required. Master’s degree in learning sciences, instructional technology, human resources, or related field preferred.
- 6 years of relevant experience designing and developing learning solutions required. Experience should include:
- Direct consultation with stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify performance and learning needs.
- Independent management of learning projects from discovery through implementation.
- Design and development of learning solutions across multiple modalities, including both digital and instructor-led learning.
- Development of finished learning products using contemporary learning technologies and authoring tools.
- 7 or more years of relevant experience preferred.
- Experience in healthcare or another complex organization preferred.
- Experience preparing, testing, and deploying content in Workday Learning or a comparable platform preferred.
- Professional certifications in learning and development or human resources (e.g., ATD, CPTD).
License/Certification/Registration Required:
None
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No
Patient Contact:
No
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Pay Transparency Statement
The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
$88,000.00 - $101,400.00
Job Ref:
JR-8855
Location:
10 Brookline Place, BROOKLINE, MA 02445
Category:
Operations
Employment Type:
Full time
Work Location:
Remote: occasional onsite
Salary/Pay Rate:
$88,000.00 - $101,400.00 per year
Overview
The Learning Experience Designer (LXD) partners with teams across Dana-Farber to identify performance and learning needs and develop solutions that help people succeed in their work. The LXD owns learning projects from intake and discovery through design, development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Working directly with stakeholders and subject matter experts, the LXD seeks to understand the business need, audience, desired performance, current workflows, barriers, and measures of success before recommending a solution. The LXD determines whether learning is the appropriate response and recommends the right combination of learning, communication, reinforcement, job aids, process guidance, or other performance support.
The LXD personally designs and develops learning solutions across modalities, including in-person, virtual, blended, and self-paced experiences, as well as videos, simulations, job aids, and other resources that support performance at the point of work. Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life-changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Consults with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business and performance needs, audiences, workflows, barriers, constraints, and desired outcomes. Conducts needs analysis, tests assumptions, and determines whether learning is an appropriate response.
- Develops learning strategies and recommends appropriate solutions, which may include instructor-led or virtual learning, eLearning, blended experiences, videos, simulations, practice and reinforcement, job aids, communications, process guidance, or other performance support.
- Manages learning projects from intake through implementation, establishing scope, outcomes, milestones, responsibilities, delivery approaches, and measures of success while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and managing multiple priorities.
- Designs and personally develops learning solutions across modalities, creating the outlines, scripts, storyboards, scenarios, assessments, multimedia, facilitator materials, learner resources, and other assets needed to bring each solution to life.
- Applies adult learning, accessibility, inclusive design, usability, and Dana-Farber standards throughout design and development. Leads stakeholder and SME reviews, reconciles feedback, verifies accuracy, and appropriately challenges requests that do not support agreed performance or learning outcomes.
- Tests, pilots, publishes, and supports implementation of learning solutions, including deployment through Workday Learning and other applicable platforms. Partners with learning technology administrators as needed and may pilot or facilitate learning experiences to support successful implementation.
- Defines measures of success and evaluates learning solutions using available learner, stakeholder, learning, and performance data. Uses findings and feedback to improve solutions and maintains learning products throughout their lifecycle.
- Contributes to the Learning team's shared practices and continuous improvement through peer review, reusable standards and templates, quality assurance, and the responsible use of approved AI and emerging learning technologies.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Strong performance consulting and needs analysis skills, with the ability to identify underlying performance needs, work through ambiguity, test assumptions, and determine when learning is or is not the appropriate solution.
- Strong instructional and learning experience design skills grounded in adult learning and learning science, with the ability to design effective experiences and pathways across in-person, virtual, blended, self-paced, and performance-support formats.
- Demonstrated end-to-end development capability, including the ability to personally create high-quality digital, instructor-led, multimedia, and performance-support solutions using tools such as Articulate Storyline and Rise, Camtasia, Adobe products, or comparable technologies.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple projects from discovery through implementation while providing clear visibility into scope, status, risks, timelines, and decisions.
- Strong consultation, communication, and relationship-management skills, including the ability to establish credibility, influence without direct authority, navigate differing perspectives, provide thoughtful recommendations, and appropriately challenge stakeholder assumptions or requests.
- Working knowledge of learning technologies and standards, including learning management systems, SCORM or comparable content standards, accessibility, testing, publishing, completion tracking, and responsible use of AI and emerging technologies.
- Ability to develop meaningful learning and performance outcomes, practice, assessments, and measures of success and use available data, feedback, and evaluation findings to improve learning solutions.
- Strong writing, visual communication, quality assurance, and attention to detail, with demonstrated commitment to accessibility, inclusive design, accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, education, learning and development, psychology, organizational development, communications, or related discipline required. Master’s degree in learning sciences, instructional technology, human resources, or related field preferred.
- 6 years of relevant experience designing and developing learning solutions required. Experience should include:
- Direct consultation with stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify performance and learning needs.
- Independent management of learning projects from discovery through implementation.
- Design and development of learning solutions across multiple modalities, including both digital and instructor-led learning.
- Development of finished learning products using contemporary learning technologies and authoring tools.
- 7 or more years of relevant experience preferred.
- Experience in healthcare or another complex organization preferred.
- Experience preparing, testing, and deploying content in Workday Learning or a comparable platform preferred.
- Professional certifications in learning and development or human resources (e.g., ATD, CPTD).
License/Certification/Registration Required:
None
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No
Patient Contact:
No
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment where every patient, family, and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all, we are committed to having faculty and staff who offer multifaceted experiences. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and compassionate professionals, neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you, we encourage you to apply.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Pay Transparency Statement
The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
$88,000.00 - $101,400.00
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Learning Designer
Frame your portfolio around measurable outcomes
Employers sponsoring visas scrutinize Learning Designer portfolios more closely than domestic candidates. Lead with projects showing completion rates, knowledge-retention lifts, or time-to-competency data. Quantified results signal specialty-occupation-level expertise to hiring managers and satisfy USCIS specialty occupation evidence requirements.
Verify your degree field matches the LCA job title
If your degree is in communications or HR rather than instructional design or education technology, the employer's LCA must still justify the specialty occupation link. Collect course transcripts highlighting curriculum development and cognitive learning theory to close any gap before an H-1B Request for Evidence arrives.
Target employers with corporate learning or L&D departments
Large technology companies, financial services firms, and healthcare systems maintain dedicated learning functions that file LCAs repeatedly for this role. Prioritize organizations running in-house platforms like custom LMS builds, since those teams have established immigration infrastructure and recurring Learning Designer headcount needs.
Search Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Filter by Learning Designer or Instructional Designer roles on Migrate Mate to see employers with confirmed LCA filing history. This cuts out companies that list the job but have never sponsored the visa type you hold, saving weeks of back-and-forth during the offer stage.
Ask HR whether the role is cap-subject before accepting
If you're on OPT and need an H-1B, confirm the employer is not a university or nonprofit hospital, since cap-exempt employers can file anytime outside the annual lottery window. This distinction changes your entire timeline and determines whether you need to register in the spring lottery.
Confirm prevailing wage tier with the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating
DOL assigns Learning Designer roles to wage levels based on experience and supervision. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the certified wage for your metro area before the offer conversation, so you can negotiate above the LCA floor rather than inadvertently accepting a wage that blocks certification.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Learning Designer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as instructional design, learning science, education technology, or curriculum development. Generic job postings that say 'bachelor's preferred' in any field are weaker. Employers strengthen the specialty occupation case by citing O*NET's education requirements for the occupation and tying the degree field explicitly to the job duties in the LCA and I-129 petition.
Which visa types realistically cover a Learning Designer job in the U.S.?
Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews every two years. Chilean and Singaporean nationals may qualify under H-1B1 visa. Canadian and Mexican nationals holding Learning Designer roles that map to the USMCA professions list may use TN visa status, though this classification requires careful review since Learning Designer is not a named TN category. H-1B covers all nationalities but requires winning the annual lottery. Browse Learning Designer roles with verified sponsor histories on Migrate Mate to see which visa types those employers have filed for.
Will a three-year bachelor's degree from Australia or the UK satisfy H-1B specialty occupation requirements?
USCIS accepts foreign degrees evaluated as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree by a credential evaluation service. A three-year degree from an Australian or UK institution is typically evaluated as equivalent when the program is in a directly related field. Submit a credential evaluation report with your petition. If the evaluation is borderline, supplementing it with relevant graduate coursework or professional certifications in instructional design strengthens the record.
How does the PERM labor certification process affect Learning Designer green card sponsorship?
Most employer-sponsored EB-2 and EB-3 green card petitions for Learning Designers require PERM labor certification, in which the employer must demonstrate no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. The employer posts the job, documents recruitment efforts, and files the application with DOL. PERM processing currently runs many months before the employer can file the I-140 immigrant petition, so starting the conversation with HR early in your employment is practical rather than optional.
Do Learning Designer roles at universities or nonprofits offer any visa advantages?
Yes. Institutions of higher education and affiliated nonprofits are H-1B cap-exempt, meaning they can file petitions at any time of year without entering the annual lottery. For Learning Designer roles specifically, this matters because instructional designers embedded in academic units or continuing education departments often qualify for cap-exempt filing. Confirm with the employer whether the position falls under the qualifying entity before assuming you need a lottery slot.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Learning Designer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.