Senior Instructional Designer

Who We Are:

The Instructional Designer is a resilient and culturally conscious individual who works interdependently to achieve the goals of the global learning team. They produce learning solutions for synchronous and asynchronous experiences by conducting needs analysis, design, development, and evaluation. They maintain course catalogs, offer mentorship to others, and implement modern learning techniques in content design. They practice strong project management skills and collaborate to deliver value-maximizing outputs which aid the team in driving the company’s strategy. They also champion collaboration, improve efficiencies, and promote alignment between the learning team and our partners.

What You Will Do: 

• Apply adult learning instructional design principles to build solutions for delivery across multiple platforms.

• Partner with Learning Professionals, SMEs, and project collaborators to conduct learning needs analysis and evaluate results.

• Formulate curricula that align with proficiencies and knowledge gaps to produce desired behaviors.

• Maintain learning catalogs by converting content to interactive, digital formats that reflect business change while accommodating the four ways of working.

• Conduct train-the-trainer sessions for Learning Professionals and partners and mentorship to content creators.

• Use authoring software, animation, audio, and video editing/production tools to produce digital content.

• Conduct quality assurance of learning content for adherence to industry standards, instructional design, and adult learning principles, to reduce cognitive load and increase engagement.

• Scope instructional design projects and provide level-of-effort assessments

• Key contributor in high visibility, medium impact learning projects.

Your Qualifications: 

• 3 years experience in a similar role, working in an environment that facilitates rapid management response

• Academic Degree, major in Adult Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, or another related field.

• Advanced knowledge of word processing and presentation applications and instructional design tools such as Articulate, Storyline, Adobe Creative Suite, and Vyond, and is able to learn new applications.

• Advanced knowledge of communication, collaboration, and messaging platforms to facilitate cross-functional partnerships

• Skilled at developing production-ready storyboards with strong writing ability, creativity, attention to detail and proofing and editing skills. Technical writing skills are a plus.

• Able to work on project teams using traditional or contemporary project management approaches

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work on multi-cultural, cross-functional teams.

• Maintain a professional demeanor, discretion, and composure.

• Able to use tools and resources and adapt to changes quickly 

• Able to prioritize multiple tasks

• Able to take direction and feedback.

• Must be flexible to accommodate global schedules and multiple time zones.

• Must be skilled in English; proficiency in other languages is an asset.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

Being at VistaPrint means that you don’t see work as just a building, a desk or a manufacturing floor. You see it as a chance to take a step forward in your career journey – and your life. We strive to give you everything you need to learn, grow, and succeed. Through innovation, collaboration, and perpetual exposure to what’s next, we’re always pushing boundaries and broadening our horizons. We embrace the chance to operate outside of our comfort zone to discover what we’re capable of. Some might call that a challenge; we just call it another great day at work.

Remote First-Culture:

In 2021, VistaPrint adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy and trust in each other to work from home and the ability to operate when they are most productive, empowers everyone to be their best and most brilliant self. VistaPrint also provides collaboration spaces for team members to work physically together when it's safe to do so or believe in-office working will deliver the best results.

About Us:

As an e-commerce powerhouse, VistaPrint creates customer value (and delight) through accessible, cutting-edge technology. We are the marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world.  For more than 20 years, we have helped small businesses look and feel credible through high-quality marketing products and solutions that include signage, apparel, promotional products, flyers, postcards, business cards, websites and digital marketing. With VistaPrint, small businesses are able to create and customize their marketing with easy-to-use digital tools and design-templates, or by receiving expert graphic design support. In 2020, VistaPrint acquired 99designs to expand its design offering via a worldwide community of more than 150,000 talented designers to make it easy for designers and clients to work together to create designs they love.  VistaPrint is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

VistaPrint, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.