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*1099 or C2C Contract Details (No W2)*
_This role is structured for experienced freelancers and independent contractors. W2 employment is not available for this engagement._
* 6-month contract (strong likelihood of extension)
* 100% Remote (U.S. or Canadian candidates only)
* Start date: May 2026
* 40 hours per week
* $65-$75/hour (C2C or 1099), based on experience
* Standard U.S. business hours (EST/CST/MST/PST)
* Heavy Slack collaboration
* Laptop provided
* *Portfolio REQUIRED*
*About the Role*
The REMOTE Learning Architect (Contract), Skills Strategy & Certification Readiness Specialist is a senior individual contributor within the Learning Engagement and Platform Experiences (LEAP) team. This role owns the foundational skills infrastructure that powers everything the team builds — mapping every expert role to a certification readiness pathway, governing how skills are defined and tagged across content and platform, and building the taxonomy layer that will drive the Learner Graph and Career Marketplace.
Our clients current expert skill landscape spans three disconnected frameworks: broad Craft Skills (5 competencies), over 1,600 granular OIT Subskills, and a proposed Critical Skills layer — applied inconsistently across business units with no coherent hierarchy connecting them. Manual skill-to-content mapping has been discontinued, leaving the existing taxonomy without active consumption. This role’s foundational mandate is to resolve that fragmentation: building a unified, hierarchical skill structure that maps every expert role to a clear, actionable set of skills and certification readiness pathways.
This is a hands-on execution role. The person in this seat doesn’t just design the architecture — they build it. They work at the intersection of learning strategy, data, and platform, translating expert role requirements into structured skill frameworks that scale across the Academy.
The work this role produces is foundational infrastructure. Done well, it unlocks personalization, powers cert revenue, and enables the Career Marketplace. Done poorly — or left undone — it would affect ABR (Attribute Based Routing), Quality Markers (Thrive Team) and many other downstream processes.
*What You’ll Do*
*Taxonomy Architecture & Unification*
* Assess and synthesize three existing frameworks — Craft Skills (5 broad competencies), One Taxonomy Subskills (1,600+ granular skills), and Critical Skills (46 proposed) — into a unified hierarchy: refreshed Craft Skills as role-level competencies, Subskills as building blocks mapped to each Craft Skill
* Define taxonomy structure, hierarchy, and naming conventions that scale across the Academy's
* Ensure taxonomy aligns with role-based certification tracks, and powers content design decisions
* Target: full taxonomy mapped and validated by September 2026 (v1)
*Certification Readiness Framework*
* Own the RTS (Ready to Serve Customers) certification framework — define what readiness means by role, level, and pathway
* Build cert readiness pathways by role: what skills are required, in what sequence, at what depth
* Partner with Learning Engagement and Credentialing teams to operationalize pathways on the platform
* Ensure pathways are structured to support CPE/CE compliance requirements as the certification program matures
*Learner Graph & Career Marketplace Enablement*
* Define the skills data model that connects training activity to performance outcomes (the Learner Graph)
* Partner with Platform Engineering and Analytics to ensure the taxonomy integrates with platform data infrastructure
* Ensure taxonomy is structured to support career signal matching for Career Marketplace (FY28 target)
* Design taxonomy to serve both individual learner journeys and B2B team intelligence use cases
*Taxonomy Governance & Content Standards*
* Establish the taxonomy governance model: intake, review cadence, versioning, and deprecation
* Define content tagging standards and partner with content, vendor, and platform teams to drive adoption
* Maintain taxonomy as a living system — structured enough to be consistent, flexible enough to evolve with the business
* Serve as the authority on skills definitions, resolving conflicts and ambiguities across stakeholders
*Cross-Functional Partnership*
* Partner with People & Performance Talent Development on Craft Skills refresh; partner with the Academy on Subskill mapping
* Collaborate with Platform Engineering and the OIA Migration workstream to ensure taxonomy is embedded in the unified platform from day one
* Work with content teams and vendors to align on tagging standards and content metadata requirements
* Represent the skills architecture perspective in prioritization decisions and planning conversations
*What Success Looks Like*
* Three fragmented skill frameworks unified into a coherent 2-level hierarchy — Craft Skills and Subskills — with clear mapping between them
* v1 skills taxonomy fully mapped and governance model in place by September 2026
* Cert readiness pathways defined for all active expert roles — PL1 through advanced tiers
* Content tagging standards adopted by content teams and embedded in vendor SOWs
* Taxonomy integrated into platform infrastructure and powering personalized learner experiences
* Learner Graph data model defined and ready to connect training activity to career outcomes by FY28
* Career Marketplace matching logic has a validated skills foundation to build on
*Required Qualifications*
* 5+ years of experience in skills strategy, learning architecture, workforce development, or talent management
* Demonstrated experience designing, governing, or consolidating skills taxonomies, competency frameworks, or role architecture at scale
* Strong systems thinking — ability to design structures that are rigorous, scalable, and usable by partnered teams
* Experience navigating ambiguous, greenfield environments — building foundational frameworks where fragmented or inactive systems exist
* Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, people ops, and data teams
* Ability to translate complex skills architecture into clear guidance for content, platform, and business partner
*Bonus Qualifications*
* Experience in professional certification, credentialing, or CPE/CE compliance frameworks
* Familiarity with LMS architecture, content metadata standards (e.g., xAPI, LTI), or skills data models; experience with skills management platforms (e.g., PoolParty, Workday Skills, Degreed)
* Background in EdTech, professional services certification, or financial services workforce development
* Exposure to ontology design, knowledge graphs, or multi-level skill hierarchy modeling
* Experience driving cross-functional alignment on shared taxonomy standards across HR/People Ops, L&D, and platform teams
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $65.00 - $75.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
* What is the largest skill taxonomy you have personally architected, and is it still in active use? If yes, by whom?
Work Location: Remote
Compétences linguistiques
- English
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