WGU: jobs, salaries and hiring

Hiring now

• 33

  open professional roles

• 38

  opened in the last 90 days

  38 in the last 12 months

• 0%

  of roles are remote

• 3

  states hiring

  Utah, North Carolina, Tennessee

What it hires for: Engineering (14), Operations (5), Data & Analytics (2), Design (1), Finance (1). By level: senior ic (13), mid level (8), manager (7), vp (3), senior manager (3).

Where: Salt Lake City, UT (30), Raleigh, NC (5), Nashville, TN (1), Raleigh, NC; Salt Lake City, UT (1), United States (1).

WGU hiring at a glance

• We have tracked WGU's career site since Oct 2026; it has opened 38 professional roles in that time.
• None of WGU's 33 open roles is entry-level; they ask for experience.
• 11 open roles (33%) ask for a specific AI skill; tools named include Databricks, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker.
• Of the 15 open roles that state where the work happens, 15 on-site.
• Among open roles, 10 say the employer cannot sponsor a visa.
• 8% of its roles post a salary range, against a median of 3% for Education & EdTech employers.
• 1 roles were posted in the last 7 days; the median open role was posted 20 days ago.
• By open professional roles, WGU ranks #113 of 283 Education & EdTech employers we track.

What WGU asks for

AI tools named: Databricks (3), AWS Bedrock (1), SageMaker (1). AI certifications named: AWS ML Specialty / ML Engineer Associate (1), Databricks ML / GenAI certification (1).

How WGU compares with Education & EdTech employers

Median across 283 Education & EdTech employers with 3 or more open roles. Updated daily.

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Open roles

• Vice President, AdvancementSalt Lake City, UT · $222k

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Common questions

Is WGU hiring?

WGU has 33 open professional roles on its career site as of the last check. 38 opened in the last 90 days and 38 in the last 12 months. The most common function is engineering.

Does WGU offer remote or hybrid jobs?

Of the 15 open roles that state where the work happens, 15 on-site.

What skills does WGU ask for?

Across its open roles the skills named most often are workday (32), talent acquisition (31), agile (10), change management (10), aws (9), project management (8).