Associate Instructional Designer
Qualtrics
Chicago
Why We Have This Role
How You’ll Find Success
- Passion for adult eLearning and creating effective and engaging learning strategies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a specific focus on being able to translate complicated concepts into easy-to-understand formats.
- Comfort using AI as part of your everyday design workflow (drafting, storyboarding, scripting, media generation, quality checks) alongside a clear point of view on where it helps and where it hinders.
- Organized and dependable across several concurrent projects, working from clear priorities with regular checkpoints from your manager, senior instructional designers and subject matter experts.
- Adaptable delivery that scales your approach from polished, immersive learning to agile, just-in-time assets to maximize engagement and speed in a fast-moving environment.
- Fast learner with technical aptitude that enables you to gain expertise across our products, roles and instructional design tech stack.
How You’ll Grow
- Learn about experience management (XM) as a category, including expert-level technical knowledge.
- Learn about various sales and services functions across technology companies which lead to successful customer renewals and expansions.
- Expand your instructional design expertise with direct coaching from senior instructional designers and an active global ID community of practice.
- Build depth across the enablement tech stack (WorkRamp, Highspot, Articulate 360, WhatFix, Canva) and in the AI tooling layered on top.
Things You’ll Do
- Develop and launch digital content, with an emphasis on just-in-time learning that can be produced, published, and updated at speed.
- Build learning content across diverse modalities including e-learning, video, job aids, in-application guidance, and support materials for live sessions.
- Own the end-to-end process and timeline for your assigned scope, including entry of content into the LMS, Beta launch, and launch support, with senior ID review at key milestones.
- Use AI tools to accelerate drafting, scripting, media creation, and quality assurance, applying instructional judgment to everything that ships.
- Interview internal subject matter experts and synthesize concepts.
- Write course content, including expository text, scripts for animated and testimonial videos, learning activities, and assessment questions that enhance retention.
- Publicize newly released training content via internal and external marketing channels.
- Analyze course activity and feedback to prioritize tasks for ongoing refinement and enhancement.
- Maintain the library of eLearning to keep content current, accurate, and relevant with updated product features and XM methodologies.
- Research strategies and industry best practices for creating engaging and interactive content for learners.
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- 4-5 years of experience in content development, technical writing or online instructional design.
- Hands-on experience with Articulate 360 (Rise and Storyline) or a comparable authoring tool.
- Working knowledge of at least one enablement or learning platform (WorkRamp, Highspot, WhatFix, or equivalent) and a willingness to learn the rest.
- Comfort designing in Canva or an equivalent visual design tool.
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in a design, content, or media production workflow.
- Ability to convert complex, technical information into easy-to-understand formats.
- Outstanding organization and prioritization skills.
- Strong attention to detail to produce high-quality and polished content.
- Comfortable in a shifting environment: you raise questions early, adjust when priorities move, and keep work moving without waiting to be unblocked.
- Even Better if You Have:
- Knowledge of adult learning theories, Bloom's Taxonomy, instructional design models, and development of assessments / testing.
- Experience making digital learning interactive, engaging, and social.
- Experience designing overall curriculum for defined audiences.
- Video editing experience.
- Experience reporting on digital learning data (WorkRamp reporting, Tableau, or similar) and turning it into design decisions.
- Familiarity with Salesforce.
- Experience with Google distribution lists or comparable audience and distribution management.
What You Should Know About This Team
- Broad purview: We work across regions, so there's always something new to learn!
- Direct influence on key company metrics, including revenue, expansions, and renewals.
- Strong focus on professional development.
- We work hard but also have a lot of fun doing it. We believe the best work comes from a collaborative and trusting team culture.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Qualtrics Experience Program - A bonus each year for an experience of your choosing
- Worldwide and diverse community that enjoys helping each other
- At Qualtrics we are constantly working to create an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable coming to work and can, as a result of our culture, make their best possible contribution to our team
For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, mental health benefits, and an experience bonus. For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.
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