Inviting Learning Designers to be part of a Knowledge Sciences Lab
Full-time | Mumbai | In-Office
The Opportunity
Are you fascinated by how humans build inner strength, navigate adversity, find meaning through work, and develop a deeply rooted sense of self-esteem? Do you look at standard corporate training or superficial "feel-good" webinars and feel a burning desire to create something that leads to genuine transformation in people, with a scientific approach and real intellectual depth?
We are seeking a brilliant, perceptive, and highly research-driven Learning Designer to join our Learning Architecture Practice. In this role, you will map out the cognitive and emotional pathways that help individuals discover and unlock their intrinsic human strength and capacity.
About the Role
As a Learning Designer in Illumine, your primary canvas is the human mind and human potential. You will be responsible for taking complex cognitive-behavioral science, psychology, and human developmental concepts and develop them into high-impact programs, digital tools, diagnostic assessments, and transformative interventions. This will require you to understand and work within the architectural framework and change model defined based on research and human potential philosophy.
This is an intellectually demanding role that requires a rare combination of rigor as a practitioner, research ability, ability to work with abstraction combined with highly practical, intuitive design that makes learning simple and high-connect for people.
What You Will Do:
- Research of different kinds – of diverse contexts, of latest learning theories, of change theories, of Illumine’s philosophy & methods. Research will include both, research & study before design & development, documentation for papers, and communication of learnings/ practice insights post-projects.
- Design Learning Engagements: Design end-to-end blended learning journeys that cut across various mediums of learning. These include in-class engagements, peer-learning, self-learning engagements, digital tool-based learning engagements, micro-learning engagements, learning books and facilitation guides that enable ‘discovery’ by the learner and create genuine shifts in thinking, rather than just delivering information.
- Tool & Assessment Development: Develop reflective toolkits, diagnostic self-assessments, and interactive digital tools that help learners confront, evaluate, and build their own inner capacities – for personal growth & creating value to others.
- Prototyping & Iteration: Run experimental pilots of the learning products, keenly observing and documenting learner behaviors and assimilation friction points to rapidly iterate and refine your products. This also involves documenting learning models and its evidence-based evolutions.
- Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with cognitive researchers, context researchers, business teams, tech designers & developers, practice leads, and creative teams to bring strength-giving ideas to life – visually and structurally.
About You
You are someone who notices the subtle nuances in how people think, react, and grow. You likely find yourself reading deeply across psychology, philosophy, learning science and cognitive science, always asking, "How does someone actually internalize this?"
Your Profile:
- Think like a Builder: You understand how adults learn from a foundational cognitive-behavioral level and build from the ground up - not rely only on generic templates like ADDIE. You enjoy being hands-on and build products from scratch.
- Highly Perceptive & Empathetic: You understand how diverse learners think —from corporate executives under immense pressure to students searching for direction—and design exactly what they need to feel connected yet challenged.
- Exceptional Communication & Writing ability: Your writing is clear, evocative, and precise. You understand that when building tools, the exact choice of words can determine whether an assessment triggers defensiveness or unlocks self-awareness.
- Background: 3+ years in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Educational Psychology, or a related field where you have explicitly designed tools, programs or interventions focused on human capability development.
Why Join Our Learning Architecture Practice?
- You will spend your time thinking & working on problems that matter — building resilience, human strength, meaning, and purpose, rather than just compliance or functional training.
- You will be surrounded by a team that loves ideas, challenges you intellectually, and cares deeply about the learning/ change outcomes.
- You will be part of a team that is building & innovating new models of learning, new formats that trigger personal growth, and new formats of bringing about sustainable collective change.
Know more about the practice team: https://illuminecareers.notion.site/Learning-Architecture-Practice-c27cedc0119e4cd8bdbdb5be59064d84
Watch the practice introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyLy_kYAxoA
Some deep dive links you can explore –
- Talk addressing participants of the Positive Economy Forum at San Patrignano, Italy, April 2015: https://srinivasv.com/maps-becoming-think-tools-evolutionary-adventurer/
- Public talk on: Awakening the potential - of individuals, institutions & communities https://youtu.be/vDh0Fu-71l4
- The future of organizations, and why institutions need to adopt a Contribution paradigm & move away from an Efficiency paradigm: https://youtu.be/UBm8e3kbXSI?si=7vCNKaXhejhfKNRN
Pay: ₹480,000.00 - ₹900,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
Application Question(s):
- Briefly explain what you understood about Illumine and what makes you best fit for this role?
- Since it's an innovation lab, we work in a highly collaborative environment in office. Are you willing to commute to the office in Dadar East every day?
- What is your current CTC and expected CTC?
- What is your notice period?
- Do you have experience in designing learning experiences/ learning journeys/ building cognitive-behavioral workshops or tools? Please share samples/ evidence/ portfolio link.
Work Location: In person
