Senior Instructional Designer - Technology
PEAK6 is a leading investment firm headquartered in Chicago. Over 20 years ago, we were one of the first firms to develop sophisticated proprietary technology in our trading business. Today, we leverage our collaborative innovation across many businesses, from growth capital to financial technology, with an eye toward providing value to the customer.
As markets grow more complex, we aim to harness increasingly powerful technology to make smart trading and risk decisions at ever-greater scale. A key component of success is to grow our team’s skills at using technology wisely and well. In this role, you will apply your technical knowledge and skills in making others smarter through instructional design, teaching, and mentorship. You’ll work with smart, knowledgeable people from our trading and tech organizations to plot and implement a strategy to accelerate the technical learning of our traders and have a big impact on the future of the firm.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Curating a modern learning experience for new trading associates, enabling them to participate in ongoing trading innovation and reflecting PEAK6’s status as a technology leader
- Helping to integrate more robust technology and analytics into our strong trading education program by incorporating and using both proprietary and open source technologies
- Contributing to frameworks to build and collaborate with how software engineers operate, and create tools and learning experiences to teach and support their use
- Accelerating experienced traders’ technical learning by finding and structuring learning resources and experiences, and supporting their work as a facilitator, mentor, and coach
- Collaborating with other subject-matter experts to clarify learning objectives, design and build learning resources
- Improving knowledge-sharing through collaboration and creation of documentation, videos, interactive workshops, code-along projects, and other innovative formats to share information
You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:
- The ability to move quickly and iterate – scaling pilots to bigger efforts
- An awareness of best practices in instructional design and learning science
- A foundational knowledge in software development practices and methodologies
- Experience teaching and coaching teams to develop better software
- Ability to balance the theory underpinning best practice with an applied, pragmatic orientation
- Strong organized technical communication skills in one-on-one, group, and written contexts
- The ability to explain technical concepts and connect to context
- Strong familiarity with Python, pandas, numpy, and visualization libraries is preferred
- Some knowledge of working with databases and user interfaces would be nice to have
- You DON’T need a degree, knowledge of trading or finance, or people management experience
All of our team members have these traits. You should, too.
Collaboration Grit
Adaptability Ownership
As a PEAK6 Senior Instructional Designer you can enjoy:
- Generous medical, vision and dental plans
- Matching 401(k) programs
- Adoption assistance & family leave
- Sabbatical program
- Speakers Series
- Massage days
- Poker tournament with a grand prize of a World Series of Poker buy in
- Sports leagues
- Cornhole tournaments
- Annual PEAK6 Party
- Yoga classes
- Tuition reimbursement
- Lasik eye discount
- Philanthropy events
- Annual wellness screens and flu shots
- Bagel Fridays/expiration lunches
- Birthday gifts
- Charitable matching gift program