Instructional Designer

Job Description

Instructional Designer (Remote)

REMOTE, UNITED STATES

SALES & ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – MULTI LOCATION

FULL TIME

Candidates must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to qualify for this role. See below for more information.

Do you love creating engaging instructional materials for Sales teams? Want to join a small but mighty team? Yelp is looking for epic talent! We are hiring an Instructional Designer to support our Multi-Location Sales Organization. In this position you will focus on designing and developing dynamic, visually electric learning solutions, instructor led and self-paced, to help solve business problems. From analysis to implementation and evaluation, you will create elegant and valuable learning experiences to enable our business strategy. Whether it’s a video, eLearning, live class, job-aid, or something else, you will figure out and consult with the business to identify the best approach and make it happen by leveraging existing content or creating something brand new, all the while helping ensure our Yelp associates are making use of the most innovative, up-to-date learning techniques, tools, and technologies.

We are driven by your success. We engage your unique talents and perspectives. We welcome your ideas on how to do things differently and better. In your efforts to achieve, learn and grow, we support you all the way. If success motivates you, you belong at Yelp.

This is a full-time role based in the United States.

Where you come in:

  • You will design, develop and maintain course materials including instructor manuals, participant guides, eLearning, video, train the trainer materials, job aids, evaluations, tests, etc.
  • You will consult with business division leaders to design learning solutions based upon audience needs and task analysis that include recommended delivery method, curriculum content, and supporting materials to ensure mastery of learning objectives.
  • You will help stand-up a forthcoming Content Management System that will serve as an internal wiki for Sales.
  • You will establish relationships with business partners to stay aligned to forecast learning needs and recommend learning solutions.
  • You will establish, implement, and maintain instructional design methodologies, tools, and best practices.
  • You will conduct task/impact analysis using standard department techniques ie. surveys, focus groups, interviews,etc.
  • You will work within existing resources and materials to up-level, consolidate, and simplify their delivery to a given audience.
  • You will evaluate the effectiveness of training design through the creation of assessments, activities, and evaluations that gauge the mastery of learning objectives during and after training.
  • You have experienced the capability of Articulate 360, and other authoring tools.
  • You will perform other related duties as assigned.

What it takes to succeed:

  • You have 5+ years experience in instructional design and development, adult learning theory, and technical writing.
  • You have the ability to work independently with senior staff guidance.
  • You hold a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in education.
  • You ideally have experience working with Sales organizations as your primary stakeholder.
  • You ideally have Exceed experience.

What you’ll get:

  • Effective your first day: Full medical, vision, and dental (100% paid employee only coverage)
  • 15 days PTO (accrual begins on date of hire and increases with 2+ years of tenure thereafter), 7 paid wellness days, 12 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday
  • Up to 14 weeks of parental leave
  • Monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Health Savings, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care accounts
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Target salary is $135,000 annually. You may also be offered Restricted Stock Units and benefits.

You must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be eligible for this role. Exceptions are made only where legally required.

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.

Actual salary offered may vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, an individual’s location and experience.

We will consider for employment qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law (including, for example, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for roles based in San Francisco).

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

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Learning Experience Designer III

Job Description

Title: Learning Experience Designer III

Location: US

Job Requisition ID: 17867

Additional Locations: Fully remote; work may be performed from any State in the US.

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators, and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.

What you’ll do:

The Learning Experience Designer (LXD) III leverages and applies relevant teaching and learning experiences in developing digital-first solutions that solve specific market problems shared by teachers and students. The person is expected to participate in developing various solutions as part of a collaborative scrum team and should be comfortable offering opinions and willing to think innovatively about potential solutions. Using agile methodologies, the person in this role will exhibit problem-solving prowess, effective collaboration, and prioritization skills to deliver incremental value to users.

Working in Math Core Solutions, the LXD III has experience teaching mathematics as well as experience in building mathematics-related curriculum products. The LXD III will be responsible for the following primary duties:

Expectations related to User Experience & Instructional Design

  • Help define and influence the end-to-end user journey for all digital experiences on HMH’s teaching and learning platform
  • Deliver value to customers in keeping with capacity constraints, budget, and market expectations, often arriving at and advocating for fresh, innovative solutions that surprise and delight users
  • Demonstrate an ability to leverage and apply expertise in many areas: mathematics discipline-specific knowledge, assessment, social emotional learning (SEL), Culturally Responsive Education, hands-on learning, differentiation, standards analysis, data analytics, English learner support, etc.
  • Seek out and apply data from a variety of sources, including HMH’s teaching and learning platform, to address market problems.
  • Work flexibly across grade levels, K-5/6-12, to create and adapt content and metadata for a digital first experience

Expectations related to Agile Development

  • Serve as a developer on a cross-functional team responsible for solving teaching and learning problems. Rely on discovery and data analysis to test, develop, deliver, and iteratively optimize solutions in a variety of media formats.
  • Understand, apply, and model agile story-pointing and ceremonies in such a way as to ensure work is completed on time and is of high quality. As developer, actively participate in retrospectives to identify and offer solutions to problems.

Expectations related to People

  • Take responsibility to seek out opportunities for deepening own knowledge and expertise in market environment, pedagogical and content issues, and process improvements.
  • Mentor members of the team in a way that grows strengths across all team members.

Definition of Success

  • Iterative deliveries of solutions that meet market problem needs on time and within budget as measured by product sales, customer testimonials, and platform usage data.
  • Successful state, district, and third-party evaluations that reflect the high quality and usability of teaching and learning solutions.
  • Meeting needs intuitively with little active support/guidance from more senior members of the team as measured by team surveys/retrospectives and other means of team feedback.

What you’ll need:

  • 5+ years teaching mathematics
  • Experience in developing mathematics programs or curricula
  • BA required
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
  • Comfort working in a variety of digital authoring tools and content management systems
  • Experience working in an agile development environment
  • Subject matter content expertise and/or instructional design expertise; digital development and delivery a plus
  • Ability to engage in data analysis, visualization, and interpretation

Preferred but not necessary:

  • MA in a relevant field of study
  • Experience with project management software such as Smartsheet and Jira
  • Experience working within a Scrum framework

Benefits and Salary Range

Salary Range – $64,000 to $80,000

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Employer Brand Content Specialist

Job Description

Employer Brand Content Specialist

US – Remote

US – California – San Diego

Full time

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Join our growing Recruitment Marketing and Employer Brand team as we advance Illumina’s global brand awareness to attract and engage diverse qualified talent and engage our current employees. In this role, you’ll be a storyteller executing upon our employer value proposition and creating compelling content that represent the motivations of our candidate personas and current employees.

Responsibilities

  • Go to copywriter and content creator for all things employer brand supporting all verticals of the Talent Org (Recruitment, Leadership Development, Talent Operations)
  • Manage our internal annual Values Awards
  • Design new creative assets for our various employer brand profiles, job boards, and advertising channels (experience with Adobe Suite preferred)
  • Create compelling messaging for Illumina’s paid media efforts – experienced creator of both long and short form content
  • Conduct research to optimize for SEO and understand target audience motivators to ensure messaging resonates
  • Support the TA Operations team with improving candidate communications
  • Create video storyboards and work with designers to develop more video content
  • Optimize job descriptions to incorporate more relevant keywords and increase quality
  • Research new ideas and best practices for optimal content performance
  • Support recruitment events promotional content, booth assets, etc.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of creating content and creative messaging for all marketing outlets
  • At least 1 year of experience with recruitment marketing or employer brand strongly preferred
  • Experience with Adobe Suite
  • Strong understanding of content creation best practices
  • Experience interviewing and ghost-writing for others to capture their authentic story
  • Experience working with vendors and managing relationships
  • Must have a creative, engaging writing style adaptable to various marketing outlets and audiences
  • Strong attention to detail and a data driven approach to content creation
  • Project management skills
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize daily workload
  • Creative thinker and proactive problem solver

We strive to make every employee feel cared for through a range of benefits as innovative as our work. This includes flexible time off, healthcare, access to genomics sequencing, ESPP, and more. Our goal is to enable all employees to take advantage of the benefits that are most meaningful to them and their loved ones.

Concerns regarding COVID-19 continue as positive cases are experienced in the communities in which we operate. Please be aware that, as a condition of employment, Illumina may require proof of COVID vaccination in accordance with local statutory requirements (subject to limited exceptions) beginning November 1, 2021.

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Project Coordinator 

Job Description

Project Coordinator

Location: USA

Work Type: Full Time

Employment Type: Temporary

Pay: $ 40-50/hr
Position 100% remote

Candidates can be located anywhere in the USA

Description:

Job Requirements

  • Work with internal client team and/or communication team to coordinate, schedule and track multiple communication projects simultaneously.
  • Primary liaison between internal clients and production design team.
  • Responsible for clearly communicating updates and changes to benefits-related materials to the design team based on information provided by the client and/or client team
  • Provide initial review of updates and changes to Word, PPT and/or InDesign materials to ensure proper grammar and accuracy of changes.
  • Manage projects with the design team to ensure projects are delivered accurately and on time.
  • Update daily status of all ongoing projects and inform internal team of all incoming job requests.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Degree in communication, graphic design or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in a corporate environment.
  • Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, works well independently.
  • Ability to multi-task while working both independently and with a team.
  • Organized and follows consistent processes to ensure quality.
  • Experienced in graphic design/production process, copy editing and proofing with an eye for design.
  • Working knowledge of employee benefits and/or health care.
  • Exceptional computer skills with expertise in Word, Excel, PPT and InDesign.
  • Experience interfacing with internal and external clients.
  • Have a positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Experience working with print production.
  • Experience using Workfront Proof (ProofHQ)

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Visual Effects Artist

Job Description

Visual Effects (VFX) Artist

6314 Remote/Teleworker US

Full time

Job Requisition Id R-00087057

Job Description:
Leidos is in search of an experienced VFX Artist to join our studio with an existing team of artists, programmers, and designers in creating cutting edge Virtual Reality (VR) and PC advanced training for the United States Air Force. Our client is a visionary leader that is bringing VR and digital training to the forefront of Air Force technical and specialty training for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) analyst and operators around the world. This is a unique opportunity to leverage your proven AAA industry experience to create stunning photorealistic digital art for the U.S. Air Force.

As a VFX Artist, you will create real-time visual effects for a wide variety of virtual training needs. You will support a digital art team focused on photorealistic environments and characters for both PC and VR. This is a unique opportunity where your knowledge and expertise will enhance our team’s capabilities each day while also serving as a subject matter expert in techniques, methods, and best practices pioneered by Epic Games and the Unreal Engine. We are looking for your creativity, experience, and positive energy to create the Defense industries most immersive and comprehensive virtual training. Projects include building digital twins of military aircraft, vehicles, military hardware and replicating physical environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Creation of real-time visual effects for a wide variety of virtual training needs. Examples include: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ship Emergency Procedures (fire, smoke, electricity, debris, water/ocean impacts), Environmental (water, rain, snow, ice, frost, clouds, wind, dust, heat, steam), Characters (cloth, hair, sweat, blood), UI interactions and more.
  • Technical setup, integration, and performance optimization of VFX assets within Unreal Engine.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience as a VFX artist in games, films, visualization or related industries.
  • Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of equivalent industry experience and training with no degree.
  • Provide online portfolio showing a wide variety of realistic, high quality real-time VFX work.
  • Ability to create all source art needed for VFX (textures, geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.)
  • Experience with industry standard techniques and tools for creating VFX animation (particle systems, physics and fluid simulations, etc.)
  • Extensive knowledge of industry standard software such as Maya, Houdini, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.
  • A critical eye for the timing, weight, balance and motion of realistic visual effects assets
  • Credit as a VFX Artist on at least one shipped product using Unreal Engine.
  • Able to take direction and implement feedback.
  • Experience working in an iterative, agile environment.
  • Good communication, organizational, time management and interpersonal skills.
  • Motivated, self-directed, personable with strong verbal communication skills.
  • Experience using Perforce for source control and JIRA for task management.
  • Strong work ethic that strives for continuous process improvement and production efficiency.
  • Ability to obtain security clearance (requires US citizenship).
  • Ability to work in a dynamic cross-functional environment in a 100% teleworking environment.

Preferred:

  • We are looking for multi-talented artists (generalists) who are comfortable shifting skillsets as project priorities change. Additional skills in 3D Modeling, PBR Texturing, Materials, Animation, Rigging, or Lighting are a huge plus.

Pay Range:

  • Pay Range $57,850.00 – $89,000.00 – $120,150.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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