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Digital Learning Experience & Content Lead

Americana Restaurants
Sharjah, UAE
Full-time
Entry
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago
Digital-learning strategyLearning experience designPerformance consultingShort-form video scripting, storyboarding, shooting and editingMobile-first microlearningAI-enabled content production

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Job purpose

Build and continuously evolve Americana’s enterprise digital learning and content capability across brands and markets.

The role combines enterprise leadership and specialist direction with hands-on design, development and delivery of priority learning experiences, multimedia assets and frontline performance support.

The position operates with autonomy and independent judgement, partnering with senior stakeholders across Operations, brands, markets, P&C, IT and other functions.

Responsibilities

  • Set the capability strategy, operating model, roadmap, standards and service model for priority populations across markets and brands.
  • Diagnose performance requirements and translate operational needs into scalable learning and performance solutions.
  • Design interventions that connect mobile-first digital content with workplace practice, manager coaching, observation, feedback and assessment.
  • Own the content pipeline and govern intake, prioritisation, production, localisation, review, publication, maintenance and retirement.
  • Establish standards for design, multimedia, accessibility, responsible AI use, localisation, assessment, quality assurance and content governance.
  • Partner with technology and business teams on learning tools, platform requirements, implementation and measurement.
  • Define outcome measures and use evidence to assess adoption, effectiveness, improvement, scale or retirement.
  • Lead cross-functional working groups, influence senior stakeholders, enable SMEs and manage external partners and vendor quality.

Qualifications and experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Learning Design, Education Technology, Multimedia, Communications, Digital Media, Business or related field; equivalent professional experience with a strong portfolio may be considered.
  • Approximately 8–12 years of relevant experience in digital learning, learning experience design, educational media, video production, performance consulting or learning technology.
  • Experience owning complex cross-functional initiatives and building or significantly evolving a digital learning, content-production or performance-support capability.
  • Hands-on creation of short-form video and digital learning for frontline, distributed or operational audiences.
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders across functions, markets or brands without formal authority.
  • Experience with governance, portfolio prioritisation, external partners, budgets or technology decisions.
  • Frontline-sector experience in restaurants, retail, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing or another similar environment is preferred.

Job-specific and generic skills

  • Enterprise digital-learning strategy, operating-model design and capability building.
  • Scripting, storyboarding, shooting and editing short-form video; mobile-first microlearning and blended-learning design.
  • AI-enabled content production, including responsible use of Synthesia or equivalent tools.
  • Learning technology requirements, platform integration, frontline distribution and content lifecycle management.
  • Learning measurement across capability, application, adoption and agreed business outcomes.
  • Strategic thinking, independent judgement, stakeholder influence, communication, project management and cross-cultural collaboration.
  • English communication is required; Arabic is preferred.

Leadership and decision-making

Provides enterprise leadership for digital learning and content capability without relying on formal reporting authority.

Operates independently within agreed priorities, balancing strategic ownership with hands-on delivery.

Determines learning architecture, experience design, content format, production approach and approved tools for agreed priorities.

Owns the content pipeline and recommends portfolio priorities; escalates significant investment, technology, policy or business-risk decisions to accountable stakeholders.

Policies and governance

Owns and continuously improves enterprise standards for digital learning, responsible AI use, accessibility, localisation, assessment, review, publishing and content lifecycle.

Implements approved L&D, brand, franchise, legal, data-privacy and information-security requirements.

Ensures accountable business and technical owners validate content before release.

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