Learning Designer

Walmart Canada; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 74,000 - 101,750; Full time

Job summary

Walmart Canada is seeking an experienced Instructional Designer to design, develop and implement sustainable blended learning and knowledge management solutions at the Mississauga campus. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify learning needs, develop scalable solutions, and evaluate effectiveness to support business outcomes.

The role emphasizes applying instructional design best practices, managing projects, and ensuring content aligns with brand and accessibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, HR, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years experience in instructional design, e-learning development, or learning experience design
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, Kirkpatrick)
• Proficiency with Articulate 360 (Storyline, Rise)
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere) for multimedia content development
• Experience with video production, animation, or storytelling tools (e.g., Vyond, Adobe Premiere, After Effects)
• Strong ability to conduct needs analysis and translate business requirements into learning solutions
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with SMEs and cross-functional stakeholders
• Knowledge of graphic design principles
• Ability to align content with brand standards and learner experience design principles
• Familiarity with LMS platforms and accessibility standards (WCAG/AODA)
• Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills
• Experience with AI tools in learning design (content generation, personalization, rapid prototyping)
• Exposure to learning analytics, evaluation, and reporting on training effectiveness
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects
• Familiarity with LMS platforms (e.g., Moodle, Workday)
• Ability to work with Bilingual assets (English/French)

Responsibilities

• Audit, leverage, and adapt learning collateral from various teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address business learning needs.
• Apply instructional design best practices to blended learning solutions.
• Manage ad hoc requests, focusing on user experience and learning effectiveness.
• Develop learning meeting proposed outcomes and learning metrics.
• Apply evaluation methods to measure effectiveness of learning solutions.
• Provide reports and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Liaise with external learning vendors and manage projects.
• Maintain and validate existing documentation and content.

Skills

Instructional design

Needs analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Communication

Adult learning principles

Storytelling

Graphic design principles

AI in learning design

Analytics & evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, HR, Business, or related field

Tools

Articulate 360

Adobe Creative Suite

Vyond

After Effects

Adobe Premiere

LMS platforms (Moodle, Workday)

Job description

• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere) for multimedia content development
• Experience designing compliance or operational training

Position Summary...

This role assesses, designs, develops, and implements high-quality sustainable blended learning solutions and knowledge management solutions to enhance learner experience and knowledge retention. This role partners with cross-functional stakeholders to identify learning needs, develop scalable solutions, and evaluate effectiveness to support business outcomes.

What You'll Do...

The role involves auditing, leveraging, and adapting learning collateral from various teams. This may include collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure learning solutions address business needs, align with corporate best practices, and effectively drive performance.

Applying instructional design expertise and best practices into blended learning solutions is essential. The role may also manage ad hoc requests, focusing on user experience and the measurable effectiveness of training. Developing learning that meets proposed outcomes and delivers on learning metrics is a key responsibility.

The role applies various levels of evaluation to measure the effectiveness of blended learning solutions and provides reports and recommendations for continuous improvement of learning initiatives. Additionally, liaising with external learning vendors and managing projects of externally-developed learning solutions may be required.

Maintaining existing documentation and content, ensuring it is up to date and technically validated, is part of the role. Staying abreast of industry trends and developments, and making recommendations to streamline, modernize, and evolve the learning function, are also important aspects.

Minimum (Required) Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, HR, Business, or related field
• Minimum 5+ years experience in instructional design, e-learning development, or learning experience design
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, Kirkpatrick)
• Proven experience designing and developing blended learning solutions (e.g., eLearning, instructor-led, video, job aids)
• Proficiency with Articulate 360 (Storyline, Rise)
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere) for multimedia content development
• Experience with video production, animation, or storytelling tools (e.g., Vyond, Adobe Premiere, After Effects)
• Strong ability to conduct needs analysis and translate business requirements into learning solutions
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with SMEs and cross-functional stakeholders
• Knowledge of graphic design principles
• Ability to align content with brand standards and learner experience design principles
• Familiarity with LMS platforms and accessibility standards (WCAG/AODA)
• Excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills
• Experience with AI tools in learning design (content generation, personalization, rapid prototyping)
• Exposure to learning analytics, evaluation, and reporting on training effectiveness
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects
• Familiarity with LMS platforms (e.g., Moodle, Workday)
• Ability to work with Bilingual assets (English/French)

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of UX/UI principles in digital learning
• Experience designing compliance or operational training
• Experience with photography and videography is an asset
• Experience in retail, operations, or large enterprise environments

Leadership Expectations

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

Acts With Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve Our Customers:

Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Strive For Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

The pay range for this position is $74,000.00 - $101,750.00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

L’échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 74,000.00 à 101,750.00. La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l’expérience pertinente.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age - 16 or older

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada