Your role
At Allens, our business teams are specialists in their field, using their unique knowledge and expertise to solve critical client and business challenges.
You'll be a part of our Leadership & Learning (L&L;) team based in either our Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane office. In this role, you will play a crucial part in driving the adoption and effective use of digital solutions, establishing best practice and embedding digital tools into day-day legal work.
We're looking for a Learning Experience Designer who loves partnering with stakeholders to solve capability challenges. Someone who can collaborate, design, build, curate and influence. Someone who translates complex inputs into practical learning that drives behaviour change.
The role will offer you a dynamic and supportive team and environment, where you'll have the opportunity to directly apply your expertise and experience from day one.
Responsibilities of this role include:
Learning design
- Design end-to-end digital learning experiences, from needs analysis and learning architecture through to build, launch and iteration.
- Design and develop visually engaging learning content using modern authoring tools.
- Facilitate training by leveraging a wide range of learning modalities, e.g., in-person facilitation sessions, virtual training sessions and asynchronous learning, to cater to different learning preferences to ensure impact.
- Maintain and contribute to design standards, authoring templates and quality frameworks that define what positive looks like for the firm.
- Apply principles from andragogy, learning science and innovative learning design to create experiences that change behaviour, not just transfer information.
- Measure and assess the effectiveness of learning initiatives using data and learner insights.
- Act as an SME on content design, integrating external best practice and the latest thinking.
Stakeholder engagement
- Partner with stakeholders to clarify business goals, learner needs and success measures to co-design engaging learning design solutions.
- Collaborate with SMEs and teams.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing stakeholder expectations with design quality and delivery timelines.
- Support and influence colleagues and stakeholders, raising the overall standard of learning design across the firm.
About you
You will have:
- Solid experience in training, learning and development or related roles
- Demonstrated experience designing digital and blended learning (beyond elearning)
- Relevant bachelor's degree and/or postgraduate study
- Practical experience using authoring and design tools
- Familiarity with learning management systems
- Understanding of UX, human-centred design and inclusive design
- Experience managing projects and competing priorities using structured tools and methodologies
- Curiosity, creativity and love experimenting with new ideas and ways of working
- Strong interpersonal skills (i.e., listening, coaching, negotiating, influencing)
- Ability to navigate a complex stakeholder environment and build relationships
- A desire to learn, grow, and mentor others
Your development
At Allens, you’ll be supported to grow through meaningful work, stretch opportunities, feedback, coaching and access to high-quality learning. You’ll work with experienced leaders and colleagues across the firm, building your capability, judgement and influence through the work you do every day.
Our perks
Our benefits include:
- Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.
- Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families.
- Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.
- Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced,
inclusive and flexible parental leave policy – 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.
- Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.
Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.
How to apply?
We'd love to hear from you so please click "apply now"!
At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements. If you require adjustments to fully participate in our application process, please contact us at
[email protected]. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align, please express your interest by emailing us at
[email protected]. The right role for you might be just around the corner!
At Allens, we've been building legal careers for 200 years; longer than any other firm in Australia. The impact of our people extends to almost every sphere of business, government, the judiciary and the wider legal profession. We continue to provide opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to build outstanding careers and shape the world around them.
Through our alliance with Linklaters, we work in a global network of 40 offices in 25 countries. Our size and global reach provide exceptional opportunities for career development, including both on-the-job learning and formal training and development opportunities.
Our commitment to high performance is balanced with a focus on wellbeing, with a culture that's inclusive, supportive and collaborative. We prioritise connection and value the unique contribution of everyone at the firm.
We're proud to hold some of the world's longest ongoing client relationships, stretching back more than 180 years.
📌 Learning Experience Designer (Sydney)
🏢 Allens
📍 Sydney