Instructional Designer, OPTIMA

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Instructional Designer to develop innovative learning content that enhances strategic capabilities. The role involves managing design projects, creating graphic content, and utilizing various design tools to deliver high-quality educational materials. Candidates should have strong design skills, project management experience, and excellent communication abilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of design experience required.
• Experience with design tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Strong communication and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design templates and graphic content for various channels.
• Manage multiple complex development projects from conception to delivery.
• Conduct analysis to identify key tasks and perform evaluations.

Skills

Graphic design

Visual design

Animation

Video creation

Communication

Education

2+ years of design experience

Experience with design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

Proficiency in authoring tools (Articulate)

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Articulate

Job description

The OPTIMA team is seeking an Instructional Designer.

OPTIMA is a global team and enables Amazon to deliver a superior shopping experience to customers worldwide. We aspire to provide an end-to-end data solution for the LLM lifecycle, leveraging cuttingedge technology alongside our operational excellence. We enable shopping feature teams deliver superior CX quality by providing them reliable and comprehensive insights and ground truth data to measure and train ML (Machine Learning) models and handle annotation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) across 10 different languages.

The Instructional Designer will have an imaginative and creative mindset regarding the development of innovative and value-add learning content for curriculum/initiatives that impact strategic capabilities within the OPTIMA organization. The candidate must be driven, talented, comfortable and experienced with all elements of graphic, visual design, branding, animation, and video creation. In addition to strong graphic and media design skills, the candidate must have strong strategic and systems thinking, organizational skills, experience managing small and large projects, and acute attention to detail. They must have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to present and defend their design decisions to leadership. HTML and CSS knowledge is a preferred qualification in order to support the creation of web-style pages as part of the team branding and communication strategy.

Key job responsibilities
• Design templates, graphic content, illustrations, infographics, animations, video and web-style pages within Amazon intranet tools and various other channels.
• Manage graphic and media designs and multiple complex development projects from conception to delivery.
• Work with and for various diversified requirements and audience may require multitasking capability.
• Strong intrinsic design ability, typographic skills, attention to detail, and web expertise with the ability to manage multiple projects and handle large volumes of creative work.
• Manage the work queue, handle end-to-end design processes, related tools and proactively engage managers and stakeholders when needed.
• Conduct analysis to identify key tasks/skills to target in the curriculum and perform post implementation evaluation on key performance and business metrics.
• Communicate and highlight the risks and trade-offs in a project.
• Leverage technology to improve learner access and provide just in time learning.
• Incorporate creative execution best practices to ensure high-volume designs are delivered in a timely manner.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience working with a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- High proficiency in using authoring tools (Articulate) and Design/illustration tools, Video and Audio editing, Web design, UX Design or Multimedia.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of user-centered design methodologies, usability principles, web-based information architecture and design
- • High proficiency in using authoring tools and Design/illustration tools, Video and Audio editing and other related platforms.
- • End to End management of Learning & content management systems.
- • Ability to understand Web Design basics and tools for any integrations and content hosting requirements.
- • 4+ years’ experience as an instructional designer or any related position, such as Learning Experience Design, Communications, Education, UX Design or Multimedia training solutions.

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