Instructional Designer

About Kinaxis

About the team

The Instructional Designer at Kinaxis is pivotal in shaping and delivering high-quality, engaging learning experiences that will make our customers successful on our platform. In collaboration with other key business units, this individual will design and develop new, personalized training offerings for the various roles that exist in our ecosystem. Our Instructional Designer ensures that learning experiences for our global customers are visually engaging, intuitive, and consistent with our brand standards.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Customer Education, our Instructional Designer will play a key role in creating engaging and interactive content for our online learning platform. The ideal candidate will have a passion for education, strong instructional design skills, and experience in developing digital learning content in a variety of formats.

What you will do

• Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality learning solutions that align with organizational goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, and other members of the training and enablement team, to create engaging and effective training courses using instructional design methodologies and emerging technologies.
• Conduct thorough needs assessments to identify learning gaps and performance objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine training requirements and desired outcomes.
• Design and develop innovative and interactive learning experiences using instructional design principles, adult learning theory, and best practices. Create engaging learning materials such as eLearning modules, videos, simulations, and job aids.
• Adhere to established standards, templates, and terminology.

Primary Skills and Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, instructional technology, or a design-related field (graphic design, visual communication, etc.).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in curriculum development, instructional design, or eLearning development, preferably in the SaaS or technology industry.

What we are looking for

• Strong instructional design skills, with experience designing and developing online learning materials using authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, Adobe Creative Suite, Camtasia, Synthesia and other similar AI software.
• Strong multimedia and visual composition skills: layout, color, hierarchy, and accessibility.
• Familiar with user experience principles of design and design thinking.
• Proficiency in learning management systems (LMS) and Hands on Lab (HOL) systems is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts.
• Creative mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement in instructional design.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.