Technical Instructional Designer

Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption.

We have partnered with 1500 companies to deliver a new kind of learning thats transforming todays workforce.

Our upskilling apprenticeships are designed for people of any age and career stage to build critical AI data and tech skills. Our learners have driven $2bn ROI for their employers using the skills theyve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance.

In June 2022 we announced a $220 million Series D funding round co-led by StepStone Group Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. With a post-money valuation of $1.7bn the round makes us the UKs first EdTech unicorn.

But we arent stopping there. With a strong operational footprint and 800 employees we have ambitious plans to continue scaling. Were building a world where tech skills unlock peoples potential and output.

Join Multiverse and power our mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era.

Overview:

The role of a Technical Instructional Designer is to create highly engaging learning interventions that drive real-world outcomes for our apprentices and clients. Technical instructional designers design blended learning experiences create multi-modality learning experiences and act as a primary subject matter expert for the content they produce.

What you will do:

• Curate and Integrate Supplemental Materials: Design human-led components and activities that complement AI-generated content ensuring a seamless and holistic learning journey for the apprentice.

• Design Personalised Learning Experiences: Design complex assets that require a high degree of creativity human empathy or nuance that AI cannot replicate. This includes designing custom content for major accounts high-touch onboarding programs or multimedia assets.

• Innovate and Prototype New Formats: Act as the teams leader in designing and prototyping new learning modalities that lie beyond our current capabilities. This could include creating interactive scenarios branching narratives or multimedia assets.

• Collaborate and Advise on AI and Human Output: Work closely with the programme owners and designers to provide feedback on the quality and pedagogical effectiveness of AI and Human output. Your insights will directly inform the continuous improvement of the AIs rules and framework.

• Be the subject matter expert for the development of technical curricula: Produce refine and evaluate human and AI-generated content for accuracy pedagogical effectiveness and alignment with learning objectives.

What youll bring:

• Deep experience in applying the end-to-end ADDIE process to high-level curriculum design instructional/learning design.

• Experience designing and developing industry-relevant curricula and that leverages applied and active learning principles.

• Experience utilizing AI-powered tools and prompt engineering to accelerate content development and identify innovative applications in learning design.

• Experience using knowledge of own technical domain to simplify complex subjects and concept to develop technical content.

• Experience applying strong backward design principles to create measurable learning outcomes and aligned formative and summative assessments

• Communicate effectively and can have productive conversations with peers and senior stakeholders leading to curriculum enhancements

Prior Experience/Qualifications:

We would expect applicants for the role to have at least one of the following:

• Additional experience producing for technical disciplines such as Data Cyber security Software Engineering or IT Ops.

• 2 years of experience in instructional design within a commercial environment or for commercial clients

• One of:
  - Computer Science Degree (or cognate subject)
  - Completion of an apprenticeship in a technical domain (Data; IT; Cybersecurity; Cloud)
  - 2 years of experience as a practitioner in a technical domain (Data; IT; Cybersecurity; Cloud)

Benefits

• Time off - 27 days holiday plus 5 additional days off: 1 life event day 2 volunteer days and 2 company-wide wellbeing days and 8 bank holidays per year

• Health & Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa a medical cashback scheme life insurance gym membership & wellness resources through Gympass and access to Spill - all in one mental health support

• Hybrid work offering - we collaborate in the office 3 days per week

• Work-from-anywhere scheme - youll have the opportunity to work from anywhere up to 10 days per year

• Team fun - weekly socials company wide events and office snacks!

Our commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Were an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race colour ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender gender identity or expression or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality Diversity & Inclusion policy here.

Safeguarding

All posts in Multiverse involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.