Learning Experience Designer job

Why consider AORN, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, as the next place for your career as our Learning Experience Designer? Because we’re innovative and all about quality and collaboration – we’re continually seeking to enhance our offerings to allow us to better tailor to the needs of our nurse members while expanding our market position and growing revenue across our business and sales divisions.

Our mission is to define, support, and advocate for patient and staff safety through exemplary practice for each phase of perioperative nursing care using evidence-based guidelines, continuing education, and clinical practice resources. We collaborate with professional and regulatory organizations, industry leaders, and other health care partners who support our mission. Our culture is one of openness, teamwork, risk taking and being at the cutting edge of our field and we only look for employees who hold these same traits.

Values mean more to AORN than just bullets on a page. They drive our daily decisions and impact how we work as an organization:

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness: honoring the contributions of all individuals.
• Innovation: rewarding creativity, risk taking, leading edge results.
• Communication: respecting collaborative, open and honest dialogue.
• Quality: ensuring reliability, timeliness, and accountability.
• Achievement: supporting growth and excellence.

Our Learning Experience Designer (LXD) will innovate, expand, revitalize, and scale AORN’s education portfolio, shaping digital learning solutions that inspire the next generation of perioperative nursing professionals. Reporting to the Sr. Team Lead of Digital Learning Strategy and Design, this role is responsible for bringing clinically complex content to life. As part of the Digital Learning Design (DLD) team, the LXD will design and develop learner-centric, actionable, and inclusive experiences for the Nursing Education department. Extra emphasis will be placed on the inclusion of diverse, equitable, and accessible learner perspectives and experiences.

AORN is based in Denver, CO. Our Learning Experience Designer will work remotely.

More about what you’ll get to do as our Learning Experience Designer:

• Work collaboratively with subject matter experts (SMEs), nurse educators, and the DLD team.
• Produce digital learning experiences rooted in relevant, emergent, and innovative technologies.
  • Recommend and apply appropriate instructional design approaches to develop learning across different authoring tools.
  • Interpret and translate overview, outcomes, and objectives into learning content.
  • Analyze content for areas where learning can be visualized.
  • Effectively and strategically utilize adult learning and UX/UI principles.
  • Share in the development of design systems, style guides, templates, and standardization.
  • Ensure instructional integrity of course development through systematic design.
  • Iteratively execute QC processes to elevate product quality.
  • Identify learner needs via surveys, assessments, and research.
  • Contribute to evaluating learning success and satisfaction metrics.
  • Swiftly prototype, iterate, and optimize content to support ongoing revitalization efforts.
• Instrumental in the advancement of the digital learning design team’s mission.
  • Provide thought leadership and actively contributes to ideation sessions.
  • Acts as a change agent to drive continuous improvement across AORN’s portfolio.
  • Empower others to creatively problem solve, and goal set to achieve organizational needs.
  • Continually expand skillset in new learning approaches, trends, and emerging technologies through ongoing research and experimentation.
  • Explore and test new methodologies, break away from the status quo, and be an early adopter and advocate of technology.
• Share in the management of project production lifecycles.
  • Identify resources, assignments, and opportunities to meet requirements.
  • Ensure documentation of processes, best practices, and workflows is current and properly catalogued.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Must Have’s to be our Learning Experience Designer:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design or relevant field. Equivalent combination of education and work experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree.
• 3+ years of experience in Instructional Design or eLearning content development using various modalities and deliverables (e.g., microlearning, instructional videos, social learning, gamification, immersive scenario-based simulations, personalized/adaptive learning).
• Experience working within a design team.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Agile, design sprints, and design thinking experience and execution.
• Experience with video development (e.g., Vyond, Adobe, Synthesia).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Demonstrated skill in learning applications and authoring tools including: Articulate360, Vyond, Camtasia.
• Familiar with WCAG2.0, UX Principles, design systems, templates, CARP standards, and QA/QC best practices.
• Knowledge of Digital Learning technical standards (SCORM, AICC, xAPI).
• Maintains confidentiality and exercises discretion when accessing sensitive information.
• Beta testing processes and iterative feedback integration.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 (e.g., Teams, Planner, OneDrive, SharePoint, Flow, Lists).
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to set priorities, multi-task, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to adapt quickly to change with enthusiasm.
• Resourceful when tackling unfamiliar tasks.
• Initiative-taking and action-oriented when facing project ambiguity and working independently.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Thrives in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment.
• Comfortable with receiving, providing, and incorporating feedback.
• Embraces a growth mindset, while valuing other’s creativity and diverse perspectives.
• Ability to demonstrate and hold others accountable for organizational values of diversity, equity and inclusiveness, innovation, communication, quality, and achievement.

Here are some of the excellent benefits we offer and why it’s so great to work here!

• Competitive salary, for this role our salary range is $90,000 – $96,000.
• Health insurance package options that include a HDHP plan and one PPO plan options for you and your dependents.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, and life insurance coverage.
• Voluntary Life Insurance options including critical illness and accident insurance.
• 401(k) plan with immediate vesting.
• Pet insurance.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Paid time off and 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Working remotely, using a computer, telephone and Teams daily. Ability to travel as needed in support of department and Association initiatives.