Instructional Designer

Genentech, a member of the Roche group and founder of the biotechnology industry, is dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. To solve the world's most complex health challenges, we ask bigger questions that challenge our industry and the boundaries of science to transform society. Our transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. 

The Learning & Skill Development (LSD) organization plays a key role in installing a digital culture and mindset across the Commercial and Medical Group (CMG) as well as providing every CMG customer - be it employee, manager, healthcare provider, and patient - with the information and skills that they need next, when they need it, where they need it. LSD is in the process of transforming CMG into a continuous then contribution learning culture by pioneering advances in skills management, digital learning, experiential learning, and workflow learning.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Director of Learning Design, the Instructional Designer will be designing and developing effective learning experiences utilizing instructional design theories, practices, and methods to create engaging course content and activities that enhance knowledge acquisition and skills development. 

• You will create compelling learning activities and course content, working with and as subject matter experts to identify training needs, applying instructional design theories and methods, and utilizing multimedia tools to enhance the learning process. 

• Conduct instructional research, develop assessment instruments, and maintain project documentation for effective course development.

• Work with learning business partners, learning design architects, and subject matter experts to analyze target audience and develop learning objectives to solve for business needs

• Identify the best instructional methods based on the type of learning objectives using a range of learning theories, identify relevant delivery methods based target audience constraints 

• Design and develop scalable learning products and compelling content that engages learners, enhances retention and transfer

• Design and develop practice activities, exercises, and experiential learning support the transfer of learning into the workplace

• Create written and performance-based assessments that measure the learners’ knowledge gain and ability to transfer learning to the workplace

• Use technologies to develop and deliver scalable learning content including authoring tools, workflow learning tools, learning management systems and skill management systems 

• Partner with multimedia designers to prototype and develop graphics, video, audio, role plays, simulations, games) 

• This position is based in South San Francisco and relocation benefits are not available.

Who You Are

• You have a BS Degree and bring 4-5 years of experience in instructional design and/or educational technology; or 2-3 years of similar experience with a Masters or Doctorate degree

• Working knowledge of at least one learning theory and related instructional design methods

• Articulate Storyline, HTML and JavaScript programming knowledge ID

• Solid knowledge of course development software and at least one Learning Management System

• Visual design skills (ex Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator) and ability to storyboard

• Ability to write effective copy, instructional text, audio scripts/video scripts

Preferred Skills

• Medical or scientific experience in instructional design for training 

This position is based out of our San Francisco campus and offers a hybrid schedule, working 3 days per week from the office. Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of CA is $122,700 - $227,900. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link: https://roche.ehr.com/default.ashx?CLASSNAME=splash

Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.