Senior Instructional Designer
Growth with a Purpose
OppLoans is a rapidly growing Fintech company that helps credit-challenged consumers build a better financial path through accessible products and five-star customer service. As one of Chicago’s fastest-growing startups, we’ve made the Crain’s Business Chicago Fast 50 (#4 in 2019) and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (twice), and we’ve ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 four years in a row!
OppLoans is a team of caring and inventive “Opptimists” with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. OppLoans employees approach every new challenge with an unparalleled ability to see what could be rather than settle for what is. We want people to be excited to come to work every morning and know they are a part of something great. That’s why we prize collaboration, collegiality, and letting the best ideas win the day.
The Opportunity
Are you a creative experienced and passionate Senior Instructional Designer? Are you looking to help shape what a great learning experience looks and feels like for our organization? Are you passionate about using the adult learning theory, improving instructional design methods to build creative learning solutions and tailored content for the learner audience? If yes, this is the opportunity for you!
Reporting to the Senior Director of Training and Development the Senior Instructional Designer plays a crucial role in the creation, development, and editing of content for learning experiences that close the gaps in skills, and information of a targeted audience within OppLoans. The Senior Instructional Designer focuses on how the training is developed including the look, feel, organization, and functionality. They are expected to create and edit training, learning and development courses, workshops, and curriculum material for OppLoan departments.
Key Responsibilities
- Summarize and write course content based on input from SMEs, existing training material, and other documents
- Write the audio script, import video, and audio files (when applicable).
- Promote collaboration among the participants in a design project
- Develop new training courses, workshops, and curriculum
- Plan instructional design projects
- Evaluate and assess instructional content and its impact
- Work with experts to establish/create instructional content
- Justify design decisions with learning science
- Complete projects independently and contribute to important decisions for a department or function
- Contribute to company-wide strategic projects while performing needs analysis when a training request is submitted
- May mentor junior contributors
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- BA in instructional design, HR, or educational technology preferred; equivalent work experience in instructional design, content creation (creating and editing videos for e-learning platforms), and adult learning
- Experience instructional design and instructional technology
- Knowledge and application of adult learning principles
- Experience using or managing an LMS
- Prior experience working with content and designing training for multiple methods of delivery
- Ability to storyboard, write copy, instructional text, audio, and video scripts
- Written and visual communication skills
Desirable Skills
- Experience with LinkedIn Learning
- Experience with multiple LMS platforms
Define your career at OppLoans
OppLoans is committed to providing an exceptional employee experience that allows you to define your career and purpose with us. New hire “Opptimists” go through orientation, shadow programs, a new hire lunch with our CEO, Jared Kaplan, and you can participate in different company culture events focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our onboarding team has designed programs to make you feel welcome and part of our team during your first year and beyond.
- Define the Mission (days 1-30): You will understand our company mission, values, and vision, and how your role at OppLoans plays a part in that.
- Define your Goals (months 1-3): You will be able to understand your role expectations and identify goals with your manager and mentor(s) to fulfill those expectations.
- Define your Belonging (months 3-6): You will understand OppLoans’ culture and have opportunities to engage with and impact that culture. Employee-led communities and programs, like our wellness program Project Opptimism, are offered to help with community connection both virtually and in-person.
- Define your Journey (6 months - 1 year): You will feel confident in your abilities to execute in your role and know the next step you will take to develop your career.
Compensation and Benefits
OppLoans offers a flexible remote environment, 401(k) matching program, and flexible paid vacation. Other benefits include medical benefits, dental and vision coverage, and tuition reimbursement. To support your wellness, you receive a free Audible membership, access to all LinkedIn Learning courses, and monthly meditation and yoga classes. We also offer Fringe, which is a lifestyle benefits platform that lets you decide how you want to spend your rewards from dozens of vendors like Uber, Doordash and Urban Sitter. Dress code is casual.
EEOC Statement:
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OppLoans is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, OppLoans will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at [email protected].
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