Instructional Designer

Position: Instructional Designer Location: Chicago, IL or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid Onsite) Duration: 8 + Months

Job Description:
The Global Sales Enablement Team is a group of 50 plus program managers, sales experts, instructional designers, trainers, and coaches that are responsible for driving behavior change in the field to increase sales performance.

About the Role:
As a Sales Enablement Learning Designer, you ll get to design and build a variety of sales enablement training programs, courses, and assets to help develop knowledge and skills across our sales teams.

If you are a creative person that likes to design workshops, edit videos, design graphics, outline courses, streamline copy, facilitate instructor-led training, and create visually compelling slides, then this role may be a great fit for you

As a key member of the Learning Design team, you ll get the opportunity to collaborate with subject matter experts across the organization to produce a wide variety of content including:

• Live Instructor Led Workshops: both in person and virtual (ILT & VILT).
• On-Demand Courses: e-learning courses, just in time content.
• Job Aids: simple, clear instructions on guides on how to do something in sales.
• Additional sales enablement tools including: videos, infographics, slide decks, logos, flow charts, diagrams you name it

What You ll Do: Design

• Curriculum Design: Define the scope, objectives, storyboard and outlines for training programs and learning paths to meet the learning needs of the sales team.
• Lesson Design: Design interactive assets, courseware, and videos using adult learning theory that appeals to various learning styles and international audiences.
• Collaborate with program managers and subject matter experts to develop content.
• Content Creation
• Create & Edit Lessons: write, develop and update lesson content
• E-Learning: Design and develop interactive online courses in Articulate Rise 360.
• Presentation Design: Create visually appealing slide decks for training programs.
• Interactive Learning Experiences: Design engaging activities and assignments to ensure learners get a chance to practice and refine what they learn.
• Assessments: Design quizzes, knowledge checks, assessments, certifications and skills-based evaluations to ensure knowledge transfer.
• Video & Podcasts: Create storyboards, write scripts, record voice over, produce, edit video and podcast content.
• Graphic Design: Create logos, diagrams, infographics, process flowcharts and other visual content for learning programs.
• LMS & Content Management: Upload and manage courses in Workday Learning, Highspot and other LMS and CMS systems.
• Learning Assessment & Consulting
• Need Analysis: Evaluate skills gaps and make recommendations as to how to meet those needs through training, enablement, and coaching.
• Measure Program Success: Work with program managers to determine how to measure the success of learning programs using the Kirkpatrick model.
• Advise & Consulting: Offer advice, expertise and ideas to program managers and trainers as needed to improve enablement programs based on learning best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in instructional design, training or learning & development.
• Eye for Design: able to create visually appealing courses, content, diagrams and slides that are clean, modern and well laid out.
• Make Complex Concepts Simple: able to translate complex concepts into simple terms and organize it in a way that s easy to understand.
• Experience in common Sales tools: Salesforce, Clari, Outreach, etc
• Experience with Design Tools: experience with authoring, multimedia, and graphics tools including Articulate Storyline 360, Articulate Rise, Camtasia Video Editing, PowerPoint, Google Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Manage Work in Remote Environment: ability to work both independently and in teams, balance multiple projects and prioritize time well.
• Bachelor s Degree is required

Please include a link to a portfolio with some samples of your work. This can be anything from courses, guides, slide decks, videos, infographics, job aids or anything that highlights your design expertise

Interview Process:

• 1st round: 2 person interview panel. If candidate does well, team is requesting a small deliverable from the candidates. "After initial interview, please create a 4-6 slide Job aid on how an average consumer would purchase a product on amazon .com for the first time."
• Final round interview with hiring manager

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of human connection, defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA , which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at:

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at if you require reasonable accommodation.

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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position s starting pay is: $30.00/hr.