What are the responsibilities and job description for the Learning Experience Specialist position at Deckers Brands?
At Deckers Brands, Together, Every Step is a promise kept that every employee can bring their authentic self, is valued and supported, as a whole person, at work and beyond. Together, Every Step is how we continue to deliver exceptional business results, experience an amazing place to work, and have a positive impact on the communities and world around us.
Job Title: Learning Experience Specialist
Reports to: LX Program Manager
Location: Goleta, CA (Hybrid)
Reports to: LX Program Manager
Location: Goleta, CA (Hybrid)
The Role
The Learning Experience Specialist plays a key role in delivering and supporting leadership and professional development experiences across Deckers. This role combines program and on demand facilitation with strong program coordination and operational support, ensuring that every learning experience runs smoothly and aligns with our leadership development strategy. You’ll bring our leadership programs and professional development experiences to life, leading participant engagement, producing live virtual events, and orchestrating the behind-the-scenes operations that make our programs successful. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys both engaging with learners and facilitating and managing program logistics.
The Learning Experience Specialist plays a key role in delivering and supporting leadership and professional development experiences across Deckers. This role combines program and on demand facilitation with strong program coordination and operational support, ensuring that every learning experience runs smoothly and aligns with our leadership development strategy. You’ll bring our leadership programs and professional development experiences to life, leading participant engagement, producing live virtual events, and orchestrating the behind-the-scenes operations that make our programs successful. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys both engaging with learners and facilitating and managing program logistics.
Your Impact
- Support in the creation, review, and maintenance of leadership development content (facilitator guides, participant workbooks, slide decks, job aids, and exercises)
- Ensure learning materials reflect the company’s leadership competencies, values, and culture
- Oversee and streamline all training documentation and shared resources
- Drive the optimization of program materials to ensure they remain current, on-brand, and easily accessible to facilitators and learners
- Partner with subject matter experts and program leads to support ongoing enhancement of leadership learning content
- Facilitate high energy virtual and in-person experiences for leadership programs, onboarding, and on-demand classes, workshops and discussions while being able to adapt, be flexible, and improvise as the situation requires
- Support lead facilitators by producing sessions, managing chat, breakout rooms, polls, resources, and participant engagement to ensure sessions run smoothly and participants stay engaged
- Create a positive, inclusive and safe learning environment that encourages discussion, reflection, and connection
- Own logistics for training, including scheduling, enrolling, invitations, surveys, meeting links, communications, room reservation, Teams/Zoom setup, and event set-up/take-down
- Develop and manage communication plans to participants and stakeholders (invitations, prework, reminders, evaluations, etc.) across multiple programs
- Monitor and analyze attendance, completion rates, and engagement data for reporting and follow-up
- Support translation and coordination of materials with regional LX partners for global programs
- Work closely with the global Learning Experience team and regional partners to ensure alignment and consistency across leadership programs
- Research and leverage technology and tools (such as Monday.com and AI) to scale coordination, improve efficiency, and maximize program impact
- Manage basic learner and administrative needs in Workday Learning, including enrollments, rosters, completions, and reporting
- Act as the primary liaison for learner inquiries and troubleshooting support
- Support data collection for program evaluations, feedback summaries, and performance dashboards
- Maintain and update the LX team’s SharePoint site and shared resources
We celebrate diversity—of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.
Who You Are
- 2 years of experience in Learning & Development, HR, or related field
- Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including experience writing, designing, formatting, and editing internal communications, launch plans, presentations, internal site/channel content, learning content, and videos
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills; comfortable engaging groups both virtually and in-person
- Experience producing or supporting virtual learning sessions (Zoom, Teams, etc.)
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; able to manage multiple programs simultaneously
- Project and program management support experience with cross-functional teams, including creating and updating timelines
- Adaptable to quickly changing needs and priorities; able to work across multiple projects and activities concurrently
- Passion for leadership development and creating meaningful learning experiences
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and Canva
- Experience with Workday Learning or similar LMS preferred
- DiSC certification is a bonus
What We'll Give You –
- Competitive Pay and Bonuses - We’ve created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they’re valued.
- Financial Planning and wellbeing - No matter what financial goals our employees have set, we want to help them get there. Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
- Time away from work - Sometimes we need time away to be with family, focus on our health or just simply recharge. Our plans support our employees’ needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
- Extras, discounts and perks - Being a valued member of the Deckers Brands team means more than just a paycheck. From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras
- Growth and Development - Deckers Brands was built on the idea of pursuing passion. That’s why we offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
- Health and Wellness - There’s nothing basic about our comprehensive health and wellness programs and offerings. While at work and at play, we aim to support a healthy lifestyle.
$75,000-$80,000
The salary range posted reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this role in our Goleta, CA location . Individual pay will be determined by location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Diversity and inclusion are key to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our brands. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition and all the other beautiful parts of your identity.
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Salary : $75,000 - $80,000
