About ACI Learning:

Join some of the world’s most passionate technical trainers, data-defenders, and cyber thought leaders.

We train the world’s experts in Audit, Cyber, and IT. The world’s most trusted organizations trust us to train their practitioners and leaders. We offer training experiences designed to help professionals protect data, anticipate risk, and defend business-critical systems. It’s all we do.

Summary:
The Lead Instructional Designer will have the opportunity to impact the development of design standards, processes, and style guidelines. As a Lead Instructional Designer your role is to oversee the successful delivery of digital training products to market. Your experience with instructional design methodologies and tools will be invaluable to ensuring the growth and development of our Learning Design team.

Reporting to the Manager of Learning Design, you will work closely with Instructional Design Specialists, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Product Technical Specialists. In collaboration with Quality Assurance Specialists, you will plan, execute, and maintain products that align with skills and job roles in today’s modern workplace.

This role is ideal for an organized individual with excellent attention to detail to assist in
developing and maintaining IT-, Cyber-, and Audit-focused courseware in our learning
platforms. Your ability to manage project timelines, resources, and budgets while advocating a quality learning product for our students is key to the success of this role.

Compensation- $65,000 to $70,000 annually

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Manage the course development process.
• Employ industry-standard methods to create course materials.
• Participate in adaptation of course materials for multiple modalities.
• Proactively identify project risks and provide viable solutions.
• Provide guidance and recommendations to Instructional Designers/Edutainers/SMEs
and stakeholders on effective learning design strategy and application.
• Collaborate with Learning Design, Product Tech, and Development crew members to
track project progress.
• Ensure compliance of all course materials to certification and accessibility requirements.
• Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and management of SMEs.
• Coordinate and facilitate project kick-off, retrospective, and product training meetings as needed.

Skills & Experience:
• Team player with a strong work ethic, who embraces our CREW values.
• Excellent written English and verbal communication skills.
• Reliability.
• Curiosity for learning new things.
• Can-do attitude.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and track deadlines.
• Ability to work on your own initiative.
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on quality control.
• Willingness to challenge when necessary.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Adept at time management and prioritizing tasks.

Essential:
• Experience in end-to-end product development lifecycle.
• Experience integrating theory and practice to deliver high quality e-learning experiences.
• Technical writing or editing work experience, or education equivalent.
• Familiar with working on or alongside dispersed teams.
• IT literacy and working knowledge of Microsoft O365 suite.

Good to have:
• Experience with project management methodologies (i.e. PERT, Waterfall, Kanban)
• Knowledge and/or experience with online training products.

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to:
• Stand, bend, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to
computer work
• Light to moderate lifting is required

Other Duties:
This job description is not an employment contract, nor is it intended to show every detail of the duties and requirements of the job. The job description is intended to provide a listing of primary responsibilities and tasks. The job description may be augmented by performance expectations and additional duties, which may be assigned either in writing or verbally at any time by management.

Benefits of Working at ACI Learning:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – eligible 1st of the month after date of hire.
• Four weeks paid parental leave or medical leave.
• Flexible PTO policy, sick time, and eight paid Holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan, 100% immediate vesting and up to 5% matching contributions.
• One free company class per year after 90 days of employment.
• Tuition assistance

We are committed to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strive to ensure that it is interwoven into the fabric of our organization. We support and nourish an inclusive and welcoming environment for employees from diverse backgrounds.