Instructional Design Associate Manager (Remote)

Work Flexibility: Remote

What you will do:

As our Instructional Design Associate Manager, you will play a critical role in advancing the organization’s strategic goals by designing, developing, and delivering impactful learning and development initiatives. You will combine creative instructional design expertise with a strong advisory presence, acting as a trusted partner to people leaders and employees. Your responsibilities include assessing development needs, crafting tailored training programs—including individualized coaching and function-specific curricula—and facilitating cultural transformation by identifying organizational barriers. You will need to be passionate about fostering growth, skilled in stakeholder engagement, and committed to enhancing both individual and organizational performance. 

• Project Partnership & Learning Implementation: Act as a collaborative partner in the end-to-end execution of learning and development initiatives. Engage with OE leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to define project scopes relative to training, establish training focused timelines, that ensure learning solutions are developed. Provide strategic input into the design and delivery of diverse training curricula and resources, ensuring they meet evolving business needs.

• Training Delivery | Facilitation: Contribute to the strategic design and facilitation of training sessions and workshops that are culturally responsive and accessible to global audiences. This includes ensuring the effective transfer of knowledge and skills across diverse regions, roles, and learning environments, while aligning with organizational goals for workforce development and capability building.

• Development Advisory: Identify and implement innovative learning methods and solutions to address development needs and deliver organizational development programs for assigned functions and/or projects. Perform organizational needs assessments in collaboration with employees and managers. Gain knowledge of each function/team to work alongside managers to design effective training programs

• Stay Updated: Keep abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in instructional design and adult learning to incorporate innovative approaches into training programs. 

• Communications: Develop and implement communication strategies aligned with business objectives by partnering with corporate communications, advising leaders, and collaborating with leadership to craft messaging for announcements, leadership updates, educational job aids, SharePoint sites etc.

• Onboarding Program lead: The Onboarding Partner serves as a strategic enabler and cultural ambassador, supporting the successful integration of new hires into the organization. This role partners closely with hiring managers, subject matter experts, and the Organizational Effectiveness team to deliver a consistent, engaging, and high-impact onboarding experience aligned with enterprise goals.

  • Ensure a seamless experience by coordinating logistics, providing workspace readiness, and offering just-in-time support

  • Gather feedback from new hires and stakeholders to identify opportunities for improving the onboarding journey. Partner with the IT Organizational Effectiveness team to evolve onboarding content, tools, and delivery methods 

• Brand Leader: As a Brand Leader this role will serve as a strategic steward of the company’s brand by ensuring communications, materials, and experiences reflect consistent tone, visual identity, and messaging. Partner with Corporate Marketing through a hub-and-spoke model to align brand initiatives, co-develop campaigns, and maintain compliance with evolving brand standards. Provide training and enablement promoting awareness and effective use of brand tools and resources. Collaborate on the creation and review of branded content—including presentations, videos, SharePoint sites, and digital learning materials—to ensure cohesion and impact.

• Internship Program: Design and manage the internship program, including the development of a structured learning curriculum, facilitation of onboarding and orientation sessions, delivery of ongoing intern and manager coaching, coordination of regular one-on-one check-ins, and execution of clear, timely communications to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience that supports intern development and organizational readiness.

• Track, analyze, and report on key Organizational Development (OD) deliverables, including maintaining dashboards, monitoring progress against goals, compiling data from learning and development initiatives, and preparing regular updates and insights for leadership to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

• Lead the end-to-end logistics for culture unfreezing initiatives, including scheduling and coordinating events, managing communications and stakeholder engagement, tracking participation and feedback

• Design and develop enterprise-wide AI learning curricula: creating structured learning paths, developing content in collaboration with subject matter experts, integrating AI tools and technologies into training modules, and aligning learning outcomes with organizational strategy to build AI fluency across all levels of the organization

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in organizational development, instructional design, education, or a related field is required  

• 6 years of experience in organizational development, instructional design, or related roles, demonstrating a strong understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies. 

• 1+ years of experience in the instructional design software/tools Camtasia for video editing, recording and basic post-production (screen capture, audio cleanup, captions and exports).

• 2+ years of experience using Articulate Rise

• 2+ years' experience supporting and managing content in SharePoint (page creation, document libraries, permissions, and navigation)

• One year minimum experience using Canva or similar design tool for learning visuals, presentations, and branded training materials

Preferred:

• Experience with Articulate Storyline strongly preferred.

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

• High level knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Copilot

$89,300 - $193,400 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors

Travel Percentage: None

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.