Jobs at Western Governors University

Conduct full-cycle recruiting for technical positions during a temporary three-month assignment. Partner with hiring managers, develop sourcing strategies, build talent pipelines, manage candidate communications, use recruiting analytics and market insights, and promote the employer brand. The role requires Workday ATS experience, technical recruiting expertise, and proficiency with AI/LLM/automation and Microsoft Office. This is a full-time remote position based in the United States with occasional travel.

Manage a portfolio of ~100-125 major gift prospects in the Northeast, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts of $100,000+. Conduct 12-15 personal visits monthly (including travel), develop proposals, report donor activity, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and ensure a pipeline of major donors to meet fundraising goals.

Design, build, deploy, monitor, and improve ML decision models that drive personalized student recommendations and operational automation. Collaborate with stakeholders, data engineering, and MLOps to productionize models, ensure model governance, interpretability, fairness, and create dashboards and documentation to support responsible, scalable decision systems.

Designs and delivers inclusive employee learning experiences using instructional design methodologies, AI-enabled tools, eLearning technologies, assessments, simulations, and job aids. Collaborates with stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify needs, manage agile learning projects, analyze curriculum data, measure learning effectiveness, and implement improvements. Requires strong communication, project management, analysis, and LMS skills, with occasional travel up to 20%.

Lead major gift fundraising for Craft Education by identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts of $100,000+ from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Manage a portfolio of ~100–125 prospects, conduct regular visits and travel, develop proposals, collaborate across WGU and Craft teams, and report on donor activity to meet fundraising goals.

Manage a portfolio of 100–125 major-gift prospects in the Southeast, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding gifts of $100,000+. Conduct 12–15 visits monthly (virtual or travel), develop proposals, collaborate with internal stakeholders, track donor activity in the CRM, and meet fundraising goals to expand philanthropic support for WGU.

Provides executive support to senior leaders by managing calendars, travel, expenses, communications, meetings, events, office operations, confidential information, and special projects. Coordinates stakeholders, prepares executive materials, tracks initiatives, conducts research, supports decision-making, and improves administrative processes. This is a full-time, in-office role in Salt Lake City requiring occasional travel up to 20%.

Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, test, document, and implement scalable software (TypeScript/React or Python/Django). Engage with open-source Open edX community, mentor others, make design decisions, produce clear documentation, and support team goals while improving platform performance and accessibility.

Monitors system availability and performance, investigates alerts and anomalies, troubleshoots infrastructure and application issues, coordinates escalations, documents incidents, and creates performance reports. The role collaborates with technical teams to resolve outages within service-level agreements, maintains knowledge-base articles, identifies trends, and develops contingency plans. It requires AWS, network and infrastructure topology, Active Directory, PowerShell, JavaScript, Python, monitoring tools, and enterprise application administration experience.

The Staff Software Engineer leads software engineering efforts, ensuring best practices and quality across projects, mentoring teams, and solving critical issues with deep technical expertise in Python and React.

Lead technical design, architecture, and delivery across multiple teams. Mentor engineers, identify and resolve systemic issues, ensure operational excellence, and define ML/LLM and AI platform architecture from research through production. Drive technical vision, scalability, security, and testing strategies while collaborating with product and operations to meet functional and non-functional requirements.

Designs, develops, and scales backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems using Java and Python. Leads architecture decisions, improves performance and reliability, collaborates across frontend, mobile, product, and DevOps teams, and contributes to cloud-native infrastructure. The role also involves testing, CI/CD, observability, troubleshooting production issues, technical strategy, documentation, code reviews, mentorship, and platform modernization.

Provides technical leadership across software engineering teams, guiding architecture, engineering practices, system administration, and major initiatives. Designs scalable, secure, reliable cloud-based solutions; improves platform performance and operational excellence; evaluates emerging technologies; manages technical risks and dependencies; and mentors engineers. Requires strong stakeholder communication and expertise in software development, system design, cloud operations, and delivery methodologies.

Designs and leads scalable backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems using Java and Python. Partners with frontend, mobile, product, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver secure, reliable applications. Responsibilities include cloud-native development, database optimization, CI/CD, testing, observability, troubleshooting, technical strategy, mentoring, documentation, and platform modernization.

Administers, configures, supports, and improves Salesforce and related technology systems. Partners with EdTech and business teams to gather requirements, deploy solutions, resolve issues, integrate third-party products, and develop applications and processes. Advises on CRM strategy, architecture, technology adoption, and best practices; leads prototypes and major system changes; identifies inefficiencies; supports sales enablement; and mentors engineering teams. The role also includes troubleshooting, stakeholder communication, training needs assessment, and occasional travel.

Lead a portfolio of complex digital learning products from concept to launch and iteration. Drive strategy, roadmaps, and cross-functional collaboration across instructional design, assessment, research, analytics, and development. Use data, experimentation, and AI-enabled tools to improve engagement, persistence, and completion. Mentor junior product owners, manage multiple agile initiatives, identify risks, automate processes, and apply systems thinking to improve scalability and long-term portfolio performance.

Perform advanced data extraction, transformation, analysis, and visualization to deliver actionable, equity-centered insights. Build reports, dashboards, and data products; collaborate with data engineering and cross-functional partners; maintain data quality, documentation, and models; communicate findings to stakeholders and support team development.

Develop, test, and implement reliable, scalable web-based applications and services. Collaborate with stakeholders, produce technical requirements and documentation, troubleshoot system issues, and contribute to engineering team knowledge-sharing and delivery of projects on time and within scope.

Sets WGU’s enterprise AI operations and platform strategy, defining architectures, governance, reliability, security, observability, and responsible AI standards. Leads high-impact AI platform and migration programs, advises executives, evaluates emerging technologies, builds engineering culture and teams, mentors engineers, partners with legal and compliance, and represents the organization through conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships.

Lead the Lifecycle Engagement team to design and execute digital campaigns (referral, ORM, ecommerce, engagement) to drive organic enrollment, manage multi-million-dollar budgets, optimize referral and store platforms, oversee vendors and inventory, and partner with analytics to measure impact and ROI.