Instructional Designer

Summary

Join Bluecore as an Instructional Designer and play a key role in shaping the company's learning and development strategy for both internal and external customers. You will design and implement various training materials, including ILT, eLearning, and on-demand resources. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to assess training needs and develop engaging learning assets. Success in this role demands strong instructional design skills, experience in adult learning principles, and excellent communication abilities. Bluecore offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including equity and perks, and fosters a flexible, remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of progressive and relevant experience in end-user-facing documentation, instructional design, and/or online learning
• Demonstrated experience in adult learning principles, application of learning methodologies (e.g., ADDIE, SAM, Agile), testing/assessment design, and instructional design best practices
• Strong facility and design creativity in writing for an end-user audience, including the ability to conceptualize and develop innovative scenario-based learning
• Adept at learning new software programs
• Superior written communication skills, including the ability to effectively convey technical information to non-technical learners

Responsibilities

• Organize and prepare a variety of training resources and/or research materials
• Work cross functionally with a wide range of teams to quantify and assess training and enablement needs
• Design and develop informative, visually appealing and engaging training assets (often with tight deadlines) which may include: robust courses, videos, tech click-throughs, job aids, practice activities, live presentations, multi-day curricula, workshops, facilitator guides, and assessments
• Work with subject matter experts to research, write, and edit product training content as well as materials around soft skills
• Establish learning objectives/goals, ensuring learning needs are met across audiences
• Manage, administrate, and handle data around learning assessment and measurement
• Work with stakeholders to assess current learning assets to determine whether they require refresh/recreation
• Comprehend technical content from existing sources well enough to communicate it to trainers/facilitators, in the form of train-the-trainer and facilitator guides
• Review and update training deliverables prepared by others
• Prioritize and manage multiple tasks and simultaneous deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Adult Learning, Communications, Education, or Educational Technology
• Experience with video editing software (e.g. Premiere)
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud software
• Experience developing training deliverables that are accessible to persons with disabilities
• Facilitation and training delivery experience
• Familiarity with and experience building enablement around AI technology

Benefits

• Equity
• Perks & benefits
• Development opportunities
• Remote first organization with the option to potentially work in our New York headquarters on occasion moving forward