About Us: Welcome to Headspring (headspringexecutive.com). We are on a mission to create a purposeful business culture with our customized learning and development solutions. As a joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, we work with global organizations to create transformative learning experiences. With a very agile, flexible, and fast-paced culture, we are building a strong portfolio of clients across Europe and the Middle East.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Learning Design Manager to join our London office who will act as a learning expert contributing to the evolution and consistent application of our learning design approach. Operating across both pre-sell and post-sell phases, you will support the full lifecycle of client solutions, operating at the crossroads of client needs, commercial strategy, and design expertise, driving organisational transformation through impactful learning solutions.

In this context, the Learning Design Manager ensures that our solutions remain aligned with changing client demands, emerging technologies and innovative learning methodologies. This role translates complex business challenges into transformational learning experiences that deliver measurable impact for clients and strengthen long‑term corporate partnerships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Diagnose client challenges and co-create and compelling learning architectures through discovery conversations and pitch proposal together with the Partnership teams in front of senior audience
• Lead Design Jams and translate high-level concepts into coherent executive learning journeys ready for delivery
• Ensure alignment between client design intent, faculty contribution and learner experience across programmes
• Integrate learning technologies, innovation practices and impact measurement approaches into learning design
• Act as a trusted advisor on learning methodologies and emerging learning solutions
• Contribute to the evolution of our learning offering and to Client Solution Design as an internal knowledge and design hub

Key Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience designing executive education or corporate learning programmes (face-to-face, blended and online)
• Demonstrated consultative experience working with corporate clients and senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to translate organisational or business challenges into learning solutions
• Experience contributing to discovery processes, proposals and solution design
• Solid understanding of diagnostic and impact measurement approaches in corporate learning
• Experience working within executive education, higher education or professional learning environments
• Working knowledge of digital learning ecosystems, hybrid learning models and AI-enabled learning solutions
• Experience collaborating with faculty, subject matter experts and cross-functional delivery teams

What will help you thrive in this role:

• Strong design judgement and ability to make sound learning design decisions
• Excellent facilitation, communication and client-facing influence skills
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-demand consulting environments
• Collaborative mindset with capacity to influence without formal authority
• Commercial awareness with the ability to design viable learning solutions aligned with client value and business objectives
• Curiosity for innovation balanced with execution focus
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills across multiple projects
• Flexible, entrepreneurial and solution-oriented mindset
• Professional English communication skills; additional languages are an advantage (Spanish considered as plus)

What We Offer:

• Salary range: The salary range for this role is £55,000 – £65,000 plus a performance-based bonus, depending on experience and candidate profile.
• Flexible Work Policy: Support for work-life balance.
• Wellbeing Allowance: Monthly allowance for wellbeing activities.
• International Exposure: Opportunities for working in a diverse, multicultural environment.
• Private Health Insurance: Full coverage for employees.
• Generous Time Off: 25 vacation days per year, plus additional time off during Easter and Christmas closures.