Learning Design

Hyper Island Institute for Higher Education in Singapore is expanding Over the past 5 years, we’ve seen over 5,000 individuals come through our doors to experience transformative learning in the areas of technology and change. Our impact is what drives us, and we’re on a journey to reinvent education and people development in Asia.

We are looking for a passionate, inspiring, and driven co-worker to join our team in Singapore. This person will be the Learning Design & Experience Director in our Executive Education practice (50%) and the Learning Designer for our School (50%).

As a Learning Design & Experience Director in our Executive Education practice, you design and deliver in-house learning programs for our partners, as well as manage the client relationships that come with them. As the Learning Design & Experience Director for the School, you lead Long Term Programs and Open Courses.

You’re a creative problem solver, highly collaborative and flexible in your ways of working, and you have a strong desire to facilitate, teach and mentor participants and students. You’ll be reporting to the Managing Director, and working closely with both the Learning Design Team, the Operations Team, and Business Development Team.

Responsibilities (Executive Education - 50%)
- Design ground-breaking learning experiences for in-house, tailored projects and programs in Singapore and across Asia.
- Support the Partnership Managers in uncovering the Client’s learning gaps and needs, structure them and reframe them into opportunities.
- Lead complex client relationships that are aimed at building long-term sustainable learning programs for digital business transformation.
- Facilitate a wide variety of learning program formats, where you are responsible for the overall choreography of the sessions and are able to converse and discuss with participants on the topics presented by Hyper Island or external collaborators.
- Continuously explore, recruit, train, and grow the network of Hyper Island’s collaborators, and experts in the field who can provide expertise and an industry perspective in the learning programs.
- Have the potential to be and become a thought leader in an “ownable” topic (e.g. Growth Hacking, Design Thinking, Machine Learning, Digital Business Transformation, etc.) and deliver speaker sessions on that topic in our tailored learning programs.
- Responsible for identifying opportunities that lead to the growth of the learning products through innovation while still maintaining the fundamental business goals/priorities.
- Key to note: Occasional travel is required for the delivery of learning programs in our Executive Education practice (40-50%).Responsibilities (School - 50%)

On a monthly basis, our PTMA (Part-time Masters in Digital Management) Modules and our Open Courses take place in the School. The Learning designer contributes in the design, planning, project management and delivery of these programs, and works closely together with the Program Manager.

Hands-on facilitation of the student experience in the long and short programs through classroom sessions or virtual sessions, group/teamwork, one-to-one meetings, and by being a class leader and role model for the students.

Project manage, evaluate, follow up and improve on developed learning modules and content.

Key to note: Occasional work on weekends is required (PTMA teaching blocks are on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Teaching block takes place every 6-8 weeks throughout the academic year).
- Marketing, design, or business education preferred, as well as relevant work experience (>15 years) consulting (digital/brand/innovation/management), training or education.
- Passion for education and digital technologies/innovation/leadership.
- Proven track record in Digital Business Transformation in various shapes and forms.
- Excellent client management and project management skills.
- Confident on their feet and great storytelling abilities.
- Attention to detail and ability to self-organise.
- Native/near native English knowledge, Mandarin a plus.