Instructional Designer

What you’ll be responsible for:

Circle is looking for an Instructional Designer to help build out, maintain and elevate our suite of collateral designed to enable subject matter expertise across a multitude of disciplines and audiences. We are onboarding a Learning Management System to custom catalogue this collateral across traditional Learning & Development initiatives, in addition to Circle industry specific domains. Maintaining our LMS and other content repositories across Circle is paramount. As a member of the larger Talent Development team, you will be working closely with other geographically dispersed teams, so teamwork is essential for success. A proven aptitude for quickly acquiring new knowledge and industry expertise will be crucial in this role. 

What you'll work on:

• Work through complex problems to create elegant and effective learning solutions.
• Develop resources, guidelines and templates that empower the organization to create content that is aesthetically impactful and consistent with the brand.
• Create engaging learning activities and compelling course content that resonates with the appropriate audience.
• Work with subject matter experts to identify the appropriate learning outcomes.
• Analyze and evaluate business impacts to determine effective learning goals and solutions.
• Analyze and apply trends and best practices in learning technologies and instructional design.
• Provide visual graphics, exercises, interactivity and activities that promote and enhance the learning process.
• Create supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, role-plays, games, ice-breakers, etc.).
• Devise modes of assessment, such as surveys, tests or quizzes to measure the effectiveness of the course and promote retention.
• Maintain project documentation, course analytics and content organization.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Present and articulate the thinking behind your work to key stakeholders, leadership team and team members.

You will aspire to our four core values:

• Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities.
• Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail.  
• Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals. 
• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.  You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance.

What you'll bring to Circle:

• 4 years of previous experience in instructional design.
• Proven ability to quickly achieve subject-matter proficiency across products and tools. 
• In-depth knowledge of adult learning theories and instructional design models.
• Experience in content development including, lesson and curriculum planning skills.
• Ability to write effective copy, instructional text, audio and video scripts.
• HTML programming knowledge.
• Experience in graphic and visual design work in areas including but not limited to: presentation design, creative elements for e-learning, data visualization (making charts / graphs), etc.
• Proficiency in Articulate, Camtasia and Adobe Creative Suite is required.
• Experience with LMS platforms.
• Knowledge of Crypto / Blockchain technologies is a plus.
• Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack and Apple MacOS preferred.