Risepoint assists primarily regional universities in increasing their access and impact by making their academic programs available to students online. Risepoint's mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable, and workforce-relevant education, especially for working and adult students.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years Experience in learning design, product development, or strategy in the higher education, edtech, or workforce learning space.
- Proven successes and experiences in working with scaling skills-based, stackable, or non-traditional learning programs in higher education and or industry.
- Deep knowledge of multiple learning ecosystems: higher ed, workforce education, adult learning, and international education markets.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and apply systems thinking, design thinking, and agile methodologies to new product challenges.
- Substantive understanding of a wide range and breadth of current edtech trends, state and federal policies, technologies and data sources.
- Experience with global education markets such as Australia, UK, EMEA.
- Comfort with tools for market and learner research, data synthesis, learning, product experimentation etc. (e.g., Tableau, Miro, LMS platforms).
Responsibilities
- Design and present early programmatic high-level recommendations to university leadership, internal stakeholders and employer partners around workforce and learning solutions for the modern learner and employee (degree and non-degree).
- Design learning experiences and solutions that align with workforce trends, employer needs, and skills taxonomies with an understanding of the principles of adult learning, experiential learning, and human-centered design to inform product innovation.
- Leverage frameworks in support of business strategy and partner solutions, i.e., skills and career pathway mapping, stackable credentials space, appropriate optimization of AI in learning and non-learning functions, performance-based admissions and learning, CBE, and more.
- Translate learner needs, industry trends, and market insights into academic requirements and models that are feasible, scalable, and aligned with university expectations.
- Identify high-impact opportunities through analysis of several data points.
- Bridge insights to inform innovative product new strategies and services.
- Provide consulting to university academic and administrative leadership, internal stakeholders and employer partners on the design and positioning of new learning products; serving as thought partner to internal teams and university stakeholders.
Other
- Perform in accordance with Risepoint Policies
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Travel Required: Yes
- Strong consultative, communication, and influence skills across stakeholder groups.
- Background in business modeling and revenue strategy for learning products.
