Instructional Designer (100% Remote) W2 OnlyRemote

• 6 Month contract opportunity - W2 (No C2C)
• 100% Remote

Intuitive Surgical, in cooperation with our recruitment partner Raise, are hiring. At Intuitive, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. As a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), we have been expanding our innovations through technology to help make a difference in the world. For 25 years, human ingenuity has guided our journey to help solve some of healthcare’s most complex challenges.

Join us in making big leaps forward for healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s help to advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary Function of Position:

The Instructional Designer role supports the content design and technology deployment of employee SAP and iValua development training for internal employees and external supplier groups, including but not limited to web-based learning, instructor-led training, blended instructional solutions, virtual classroom sessions, as well as instructional and learning materials. This role supports the strategic Operational goals of the Global Supply Chain (GSC) department at Intuitive. This role leverages current and future technologies to enhance access to program content for employees, while keeping the team’s visual design elements innovative, user-centric, and aligned to the Intuitive brand. To be successful in this role, you will have a strong passion for creating visual concepts to communicate ideas that captivate, educate, and transfer into employee learning. We are looking for a team member who is a self-starter that can navigate projects with optimism and iteration to rapidly prototype. By possessing a learning mindset, you will consult with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), take calculated risks, learn quickly, build on ideas, collaborate cross-functionally, and seek feedback. Your experience planning, developing, and supporting learning will enable Intuitive employees to grow in their careers. If you exemplify our company values of providing value to our patients and customers and want to be part of a team that is passionate about enabling our employees to do great work and grow in their careers, this is the role for you! 

Primary Responsibilities:

Instructional / Graphic Design

• Familiar with end-to-end curriculum and learning program design and development
• Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to identify learning objectives and the target audience’s training needs
• Apply end-user design methodology to ensure participants are at the center of all program and tool design
• Develop quick reference guides, interactive PDF documents, and other training documentation
• Use of eLearning authoring tools to develop learning
• Produce facilitator guides and scripts for instructor-led and virtual classroom trainings
• Edit presentation slide decks from facilitators & SMEs to streamline design for workshop series sessions
• Design online intranet websites using basic HTML and GUI interfaces
• Deliver final-print and/or video projects (ex: .doc, .pdf, .mp4, .wmv)
• Design within current company style guide and standards (ex. Intuitive Brand Application of font/colors)

Technology Utilization

• Maintain intranet site content, Online training content, and document libraries in company LMS and internal website systems
• Drive the research, implementation, and utilization of learning technologies/software for supply chain programs, S4 (SAP) Transformation communities, and tools with an eye for ease-of-development and end-user functionality
• Influence the development and usage of instructor-led virtual classroom learning technologies
• Advise GSC team members on best practices for the use of learning technologies in effective training Program Support
• Consider how and what measurement metrics will be used to evaluate the success of learning event/training
• Co-Lead project management and roll-out strategies for key GSC training projects (ex: video microlearning, eLearning modules, mobile learning)
• Support virtual classroom trainings, acting in the designer and technical training role.
• Maintain training records within learning management systems (LMS), participate in LMS platform upgrades and customization meetings, and provide technical support across LMS and learning technologies
• Stay up-to-date on progressive thinking- and design-strategies for training tools through research, both internally and externally
• Partner with IT departments to implement S4 (SAP) Transformation Training for multiple groups across operations

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:

Educational/Environment Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 5-10 years of related experience (instructional design, curriculum development, visual communication, graphic design, learning & development, software training development, organizational development, human-centered design, or education-focused roles); Master’s Degree in instructional design / curriculum development preferred
• Work location flexible within the United States (Intuitive campus, remote-based, or a combination)
• Available periodic evenings and some weekend hours with prior notice for program support
• Willingness to travel to company functions and off-site trainings events; Travel ?10%

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proven competency in visual / training design [Portfolio requested]
• Ability to self-manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver high quality results with a focus on detailed execution
• Ability to work both as part of a team focused on common goals, as well as self-directed to complete individual deliverables by project deadlines
• Interest in and ability to interact with a globally distributed, multi-cultural, and multi-generational team
• Experience consulting and partnering with SMEs to gather training requirements and drive learning design through an automated intake system
• Exhibits excellent problem solving and analytical skills with an eye for human-centered design and process improvement
• Demonstrated follow-through of assignments to completion with a bias towards operationalizing concepts for global scalability, rapid implementation, and measurement

Required Technical/Software Skills:

• Design software: Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• eLearning software: Articulate Storyline 360, Articulate Rise, Camtasia
• Virtual Classroom platforms
• Technical savvy with content development tools: MS Office, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, Planner, Power BI, Power Automate, Qualtrics

Preferred Skills/Abilities:

• Experience in conducting needs analysis to distill and articulate skill needs that could be solved through SAP, iValua training development
• Basic HTML, GUI interface, and website editing skills
• Experience working in cloud content management service
• Administrative experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Production experience with virtual classroom delivery systems
• Experience with software/application implementations
• Comfort in public-speaking to small- and medium-sized groups (in-person and virtually)

Please note that this is a contract role providing services to Intuitive through our direct sourcing partner, Raise who manages Intuitive’s Contractor Talent Community. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by Raise and will not be an employee of Intuitive.

Work with an Award Winning Employer:

• Best Places to Work, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice, 2019 (#12 of 100), 2020 (#7 of 100)
• America’s Best Midsized Employers, Forbes, 2019 (#149 of 500)
• Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare, Becker’s Hospital Review, 2019
• Top CEOs, Glassdoor, 2019 (#9 of 100)

Raise and Intuitive are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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