Here’s the problem: you can’t learn to ride a bike by watching someone else ride a bike. Yet this is how online learning has been built—watching someone else do something. It’s boring. It’s ineffective. And, employees everywhere are demanding more.
At Modal, we’re reimagining how people learn on the job. We’re on a mission to help companies develop the critical skills employees want and need through personally curated learning paths. We’re building hands-on and immersive experiences that employees love through a mastery platform to help employees learn critical technical skills via live cohorts and engaging, collaborative projects they actually like.
Modal enables organizations to grow the technical skills of employees in data science, web development, and other technical roles. Our online learning experience focuses on teaching practical, on-the-job skills and providing real learning outcomes for employees at scale. Join us as we build a better way to learn skills at work.
Role Scope:
As an Instructional Designer at Modal, you’ll help build out our innovative curricula, designing technical learning experiences in the fields of Data Science, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. Our learning experiences combine curated asynchronous materials, social learning, projects, and activities. You’ll write the underlying curriculum for each journey, identifying the knowledge, skills, attitudes and other characteristics for each experience. You’ll curate, design and develop learning solutions applying adult learning and instructional design principles to achieve a higher level of skill development.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design, execution and maintenance of learning experiences including curated materials, live experiences, projects and activities, labs and group discussions.
- Work with subject matter experts and other stakeholders to identify the knowledge, skills, attitudes and other characteristics (KSAOs) and curate/create the content for learning experiences.
- Work with researchers, product managers, and designers to conduct research.
- Create technical content including developing coding exercises, activities, tutorials, prompts and instructions, assessments, and other methods of learning including social or connected learning strategies, and multimedia-based assets.
- Design and deliver learning solutions in a variety of formats including graphics, audio, video, and animation technologies.
- Set learning and experience quality targets; identify and track metrics that incorporate feedback from multiple qualitative and quantitative sources ; improve courses based on this feedback.
Qualifications:
- Experience as an Instructional Designer, with a focus on developing training programs related to artificial intelligence or other emerging technologies
- Strong understanding of instructional design principles, adult learning theory, and learning technology standards - as well as a willingness to break the mold when needed
- Experience building coding exercises, technical projects and activities, technical case studies.
- Proficient with e-learning and video editing tools
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Exceptional ability to synthesize multiple inputs (reporting data, metrics, qualitative and quantitative insights) to arrive at recommendations that deliver customer-focused outcomes for the team
- Creative problem-solving abilities and a passion for innovation in education and technology
- Bonus points for a Bachelor or Graduate degree in a STEM subject (eg. Programming, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or Mathematics)
- Bonus points for teaching experience!
