Senior Consultant, Instructional Design & Training (Remote)

Ready to Make your Mark?

The primary focus of this role is to design, develop and deliver relevant, high quality training curriculum to new and prospective clients to provide clarity, increase team adoption and ultimately, help clients achieve their goals for change.

As Senior Consultant, Instructional Design and Training you will be responsible for designing an effective framework for training, developing guidelines, and leading all efforts to curate a complete and successful instructional program. In strong partnership with cross-functional teams, you will identify project needs, conduct research and assessments, and collaborate with other internal subject matter experts on client's needs related to technical tools and technologies. You will be expected to deliver training, review and assess current materials and make necessary recommendations with measurable results in client satisfaction, growth and retention. This position reports to the Vice President, Digital Experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Visualize instructional graphics, the user interface and the finished product to create supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, role-plays, games, etc.)
• Devise modes of assessment, such as tests or quizzes, to measure the effectiveness of the course
• Develop train-the-trainer program for consultants, enabling increased delivery of course content across client landscape
• Create engaging learning activities and compelling course content to drive user adoption in the client’s Martech ecosystem
• Creates tools and processes ensuring ongoing consistency of learning content resulting in the successful achievement of operational and business objectives
• Deliver training, provide exercises and activities that enhance the learning process
• Serve as e-learning and training design thought leader in the industry
• Drive strategy for scaling our training program to include a learning management system
• Researches technology and media options for effective adult blended learning on an ongoing basis
• Lead client discussions (stakeholders and teams) to help our clients assess and identify skills gaps in their organizations, and to design & develop strategic learning solutions for our clients
• Maintain project documentation and course folders
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to meet the target audience’s training needs
• Analyze and apply trends and best practices in learning technologies and instructional design
• Seeks pathways to expand professional expertise in adult learning principles and blended learning
• Independently drive training strategy, design, and development to meet business needs; must be proactive in identifying, prioritizing, and addressing/resolving issues that impact project success

Desired Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

• Good judgment and discretion skills
• Experience in scaling a training program with a learning management system is strongly preferred
• 3+ years’ of agency or consulting services, preferably in the digital transformation or marketing/analytics industry
• Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple, time-sensitive, and occasionally conflicting priorities to meet deadlines
• 5+ years of technical training/instructional design and training experience
• Excellent knowledge of adult learning methodologies and ability to conduct Train-the-Trainer instruction
• Bachelor’s degree in Adult Learning, Communications, or related field preferred
• Team player with ability to collaborate at all levels and across all functions
• Clear and conceptual thinking ability
• In-depth knowledge of learning theories and instructional design models
• Completion of specialized training in Instructional Design strongly preferred
• Ability to act with urgency, adapt to and work effectively with a variety of situations, individuals and groups
• Confident communicator, able to problem-solve, analyze and effectively deliver your work
• Self-motivated, creative, high energy, and resourceful

Competencies for Success

• High attention to detail
• Understand how to communicate with teammates and clients
• Work closely with the team to creatively push limits and increase efficiencies and profitability
• Effectively support our vision by strengthening the delivery of our service offerings

This is a full-time remote opportunity. We currently have teammates located all across the country in 24 different states and 3 countries internationally. Don’t get us wrong, we love to explore. However, due to the nature of our consulting agency you must remain in the same state/time zone and digital nomads will not be considered. Travel up to 5% for business purposes, determined by client requests or industry events.

At BlastX Consulting, you'll have the opportunity to Make Your Mark every day, solving challenges and seeing the positive impact of your work. Join us to Make Your Mark — on each other, our clients, our company, our industry, and the community.

Who We Are

BlastX Consulting provides strategic, digital experience advice and implementation services to help brands drive deeper customer relationships using data-driven insights to optimize the digital experience. Over the past 20 years we have assembled a seasoned team of consultants with deep expertise and experience across a wide array of strategic, technical, and operational disciplines who share a passion for helping brands be customer centric, creating strategies to enable the ultimate experience across touchpoints.

BlastX Consulting embraces and holds to a set of Core Values and encourages each member of the team to continually find ways to “Make Your Mark” for clients, teammates, the community, the industry, and the company. We are an Inc. magazine top 5000 fastest-growing private company and is also a Great Place to Work-Certified company.

Why Work at BlastX Consulting

We believe in meaningful work. Regardless of role, you'll have the opportunity to Make Your Mark every day, solving challenges and seeing the positive impact of your contributions, as we support leaders to EVOLVE their organizations. Join us to Make Your Mark — on each other, our clients, our company, our industry, and the community. Ask any employee why they come to work here, and they'll say, "to make my mark!" We BELIEVE BlastX Consulting is a Great Place to Work! We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work since 2019.

To Be Successful

To be successful in this position, you must have strong attention to detail, be able to work in a demanding and fast-paced environment, focus on essential tasks, prioritize multiple tasks, and be willing to learn. The characteristics that lead to success at BlastX Consulting are:

• Be solution oriented
• Be a creative innovator
• Demonstrate excellence by going above and beyond for the benefit of teammates and the company
• Value diversity in gender, knowledge, culture, and experience
• View mistakes as an opportunity to learn rather than as a negative situation
• Demonstrate a positive attitude
• Work as a team – Leave no teammate behind

You Will Work With

Vice President, Digital Experience, Program Managers, Growth, and Consulting team members; and subject matter experts.

Are You a Fit?

BlastX Consulting is a small yet rapidly growing company that is continuously inspired to learn and tackle challenges in digital analytics and marketing. To get an idea of whether or not you would be a fit within our culture, please review our core values.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At BlastX Consulting we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $105,882 - $176,824 USD annually DOE

We offer a competitive salary based on experience and a supportive, challenging, and fun work environment to ensure teamwork, productivity, and teammate happiness. We offer a flexible PTO policy, 60% paid medical insurance coverage options, 100% paid dental and vision insurance, 401k 4% company matching, profit sharing, education assistance, paid parental leave, performance based salary increases and year end incentive bonuses.

How to Apply

If you like what you’ve read thus far, please complete the application form and submit your cover letter and resume in one PDF format. We are not interested in placement agencies or companies at this time.

BlastX Consulting is an “at-will” employer. Compensation, benefits, and job descriptions are subject to change based on individual performance and business conditions.

BlastX Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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