Salary
💰 $152,300 - $226,550 per year
About the role
- Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team (instructional designers, graphic artists, and video producers) to produce cutting-edge learning content that influences leadership behaviours and accelerates organizational growth.
- Champion and embed evidence-based learning design principles across all initiatives, promoting best practices and continuous innovation in instructional design within the team and organization.
- Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, encouraging the development of innovative ideas and approaches in content creation; may include design sprint facilitation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to identify learning needs and translate them into creative, effective solutions.
- Provide creative direction and maintain brand and aesthetic consistency across customer-facing content.
- Establish best practices for content development, incorporating emerging technologies and innovative formats to enhance learner engagement and impact.
- Manage and optimize content infrastructure, including documentation of processes and systems that support scalability and quality.
- Champion accessibility in learning content, ensuring all experiences are inclusive and compliant with relevant standards.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to deliver high-quality content on schedule.
- Stay informed of trends and advancements in learning and development, applying insights to guide team innovation.
- Support professional growth within the team through coaching, mentorship, and development opportunities.
- Oversee and manage relationships with external vendors to ensure the timely, cost-effective, and high-quality delivery of instructional design projects and learning solutions; define scopes of work and negotiate contracts.
- Represent the organization as a thought leader by speaking at conferences, webinars, and industry forums.
- Evaluate and implement new tools, platforms, and technologies to enhance learning outcomes and engagement; identify opportunities and drive improvements in workflows, tooling and AI automation/augmentation.
- Lead change management initiatives to drive adoption of new tools, workflows, and operational models.
- Define and track success metrics and continuously measure the effectiveness of programs and content; work with technology teams to streamline digital integration and content delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading teams responsible for designing and delivering innovative learning solutions within a learning and development environment.
- Strong understanding of soft skills development and leadership training, with a focus on impactful behavioural change.
- Demonstrated ability to foster creativity and innovation in content creation, leveraging new technologies and methodologies.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with SCORM and XAPI delivery as well as wider learning eco-system (LMS, HCM, etc).
- Familiarity with emerging standards and technologies in learning (LTI, AI, LXP platforms, etc.).
- Ability to inspire a team to think creatively and challenge conventional approaches to learning.
- Experience managing projects and resources effectively to meet strategic goals.
- Preferred: Background in digital learning, multimedia content, or related fields.
- Preferred: Experience working within agile environments applying agile methodologies to content development.
- Preferred: Familiarity with emerging technologies such as AR/VR, gamification, and AI in learning.
- Preferred: Hands-on approach (seek out the problems), while also empowering the team.