Instructional Designer

Responsibilities:

• As an Instructional Designer in the Academy, you will be dealing with redesigning courses, developing entire courses or curriculums, and creating training materials, such as e-learning courses, learning paths, micro-learning courses etc. 
• Creating engaging learning activities and compelling course content ​​that enhances retention and transfer, and enhance the learning process
• Working with subject matter experts and identifying target audience’s training needs.
• Conduct instructional research and analysis on learners and contexts
• Investigating the needs of the defined target user group(s) such as data engineers/data scientists, data managers, software developers, and Cognite application end-users
• Create supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, role plays, games etc), in various authoring tools
• Implementing new courses and coding tasks in our LMS system
• Designing and developing formative assessments in different tools (Skilljar, Genially, Active Presenter, MS Forms, Google Forms etc)
• Designing and developing exams for certification programs
• Contribute to the development of tools and learning community  
• Be engaged in Cognite´s ecosystem of customers, partners, and the community at large 
• Influence the culture of the world's best Customer Success team

If you were working in this position next week, you'd have the opportunity to:

• Flex your instructional design muscles by analyzing training needs for our JavaScript SDK with project teams, product managers, and developers and customer and partner organizations
• Design and develop a series of e-learning courses based on webinars on a Cognite application
• Use your creativity to create formative assessments in Genially and software simulations in Active Presenter for our data engineer courses
• Draft an onboarding webinar with subject matter experts
• Help develop the evaluation criteria of e-learning courses we develop
• Use your HTML and LMS skills to build a learning path page in Skilljar, our LMS system

Requirements

• Proven working experience (2 to 5 years) as instructional designer in SAAS industry. 
• Highly experienced with instructional technology and excellent knowledge of learning theories and instructional design models (ADDIE is a plus).
• Basic HTML knowledge, and solid knowledge of course development software, and authoring tools, such as Active Presenter, Vyond, Genially, and at least one Learning Management System (Skilljar is a plus).
• Visual design skills and ability to storyboard (Adobe Creative, Miro, or other tools).
• Social media editing skills and ability to prepare, upload and maintain video materials on YouTube, Vimeo, or similar.
• Basic project management skills and agile way of working.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and ability to write engaging scripts.
• Enjoy new technologies and want to improve your tools and programming skills (Python, HTML, eLearning tool, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc)
• Get excited by delivering impact for target users and customers. 
• Enjoy challenges, take initiative and execute. 
• Able to understand and communicate with both a technical audience and application users.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.