Senior Learning Designer

At AIHR we're looking for a Senior Learning Designer to join our team.

Do you enjoy converting raw knowledge into structured learning experiences? Do you love to work with subject matter experts to produce great learning content? And to fine-tune lesson scripts so they are just right? Do you get excited when there is a conversation about learning design methodology, learner experience, and moments-that-matter? AIHR is looking for a Senior Learning Designer. Join our Content team to help shape the future of HR professionals around the world.

About AIHR

Founded in 2016 with the mission to future-proof HR, the Academy to Innovate HR (AIHR) has become the world’s market leader in online training for human resources (HR) professionals. We have a global customer base spread across 140+ countries, amongst which companies like Unilever, Reckitt, Goldman Sachs, Philips, Deloitte, Nike, Heineken, and UBS. It is our goal to continuously upskill and empower 1,000,000 HR Professionals.

We are an international team of 90+ people, driven by excellence, innovation, and a hunger to grow in everything we do. As such, we strive to provide the world’s best courses and excellent support to our customers while continuously optimizing every aspect of our work. With over 30 nationalities, our team is diverse, yet we all share a few traits: we're friendly, enthusiastic, and great team players.

Being a fast-growing company, working at AIHR means taking on a lot of responsibility and getting countless opportunities to develop yourself in new areas and the potential to craft your own role.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Senior Learning Designer in our Content Team, you will be responsible for everything content-related as part of our course development. This means you’re leading the course, from the project kickoff all the way to cross-departmental enablement. You will define the content flow and produce learning material, including: scripts and visual storyboards to support video lessons, downloadable resources, practical activities, quizzes, and instructional text for our LMS.

You will generally work on one course at a time at an ambitious but realistic pace. That means you can fully dedicate yourself to the course you’re building at that moment.

You will work in close collaboration with a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within a dedicated team (or pod). The SME will provide the required HR expertise to support your collaborative efforts in writing and producing course content. You will also partner with the production team (designers, QA, and video specialists) and an assessment expert to transform your work into complete learning experiences.

During the creation process, your project management, writing skills, creativity, and adaptability will be challenged in a growth-oriented environment. We promise not to provide you with a single boring day, but rather a group of experienced team members who are experts in their field. Unlike most traditional L&D departments, you will work in a team that produces a product with direct business impact – every course we create will allow us to grow and upskill more HR professionals.

On a typical day

On a typical Monday morning, you arrive in the office, settle in with a cup of coffee, and start your day with your weekly pod standup. This is where you meet with the SME you’re working with and align on progress and priorities. You’re working with Marna on a course on employee experience, and you update her that the first module was handed over to the production team. While you’re finishing up the second module, Marna is writing the first draft of the video scripts for the third module. The course is coming along nicely and slightly ahead of schedule, so you look forward to another productive week. You put on your headphones, and you spend most of your morning working on the first lesson script, writing down a couple of questions to ask Marna during your next check-in.

It’s noon, which means it’s time for the fantastic lunch prepared by Rik, our in-house chef, and a little catch-up with people from other departments. After lunch, you work on a resource for our platform's Resource Library. You research our existing content and find a guide on creating team goals that you can repurpose. It will link nicely to the habit tracking resource you’re creating for members to use in their daily work. We always try to make learning very practical, and this resource is an excellent opportunity for that!

On Tuesday, you’re working from home. It’s your writing day, so you spend most of your time revising the other two lessons in the module, incorporating feedback and leaving a couple of questions for Marna: you want to add a few practical examples to really bring the learning material to life. You also simplify the language – our scripts are recorded from a teleprompter, and simpler language helps boost knowledge retention. In each script, you leave notes to yourself about visual ideas for when you work on the storyboards next week. The storyboard is valuable input for our designers and video editors, creating a visual structure and highlighting what content we show on-screen in the e-learning videos.

On Wednesday, you join the outlining meeting planning the course that you will be working on next. In the outlining meeting, we zero in on the identified course target audience, what they are trying to achieve, what skills they will learn, and how we can enable them to be more successful through our content. We combine this with our marketing research into a complete brief that allows us to kick off the writing process. You prepare the meeting’s Miro board in the morning, make sure everyone has the necessary information, and lead the meeting in the afternoon. After the meeting, you make notes and finalize the course outline together with the SME.

On Friday, you receive the final input from Marna as well as the scripts for the next module. You finish up the scripts and align with Celeste, our production manager, on the timelines for filming. Together, you decide who the presenter will be, and you double-check that all the boxes are checked, as you hand the second module over to production. You’re excited – this will be a great course! Because it’s the last Friday of the month, we have a monthly wrap-up for the company. This month, we have a leadership AMA, where you can ask any questions to the leadership team members. Afterwards, you enjoy drinks with the team.

Who you are

An ideal candidate will have the following:

• At least 5 years of experience in an Instructional and Learning Design role. You have functioning knowledge of methodologies such as 5Di, 5 Moments of Need, ADDIE, or Action Mapping.
• Master’s degree in Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Educational Psychology, Organizational L&D or Psychology, or any other social science or relevant field, or a Bachelor’s degree with relevant certification.
• Proven track record of leading end-to-end course development projects;
• Able to work autonomously in a structured way with strong attention to detail: you can independently edit scripts, create storyboards, and develop engaging materials in various formats.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to create clear, concise, and engaging learning materials that match intended learning objectives.
• Skilled in designing and developing lessons, exercises, activities, storyboards, and assessments that enhance the learning experience.
• Experience using various authoring tools like Rise 360, Storyline 360, Adobe Captivate, Elucidat, BranchTrack, Vyond, or comparable platforms.
• Excellent communication and project management skills, managing timelines and stakeholders, proactive outreach, and responsible for your own results.
• An understanding of human resources, business administration, and management is a plus.
• Able to work from our office in Rotterdam for faster onboarding and coordination.

We offer

• A key role in shaping the education of tens of thousands of Human Resource professionals from all over the world through leading courses that you create;
• Competitive compensation;
• The opportunity to shape your own day-to-day work;
• Flexible working hours & working from home arrangements;
• A high degree of autonomy in a vibrant, result-driven, inclusive, and international team;
• A key role in a fast-growing scale-up company;
• A beautiful office right across Rotterdam Central Station (Milleniumtower);
• 26 paid holidays per year + you can exchange any 2 bank holiday days for a free day of your choice;
• Pension plan;
• 5 Mental Health days per year;
• Access to OpenUp mental health platform for you and your friends and family;
• Personal development budget, training, and we pay for the books you read!
• All public transport expenses covered (NS Business Card);
• MacBook + all other equipment you need to do your work;
• Daily lunch prepared by a chef, weekly drinks, monthly dinners, and fun team activities;
• Free access to the Marriott hotel gym.