[Remote] (4) REMOTE Senior Learning Experience Designer / Instructional Designer (Contract)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CapeTalent is a staffing agency that connects AI-forward Learning & Development professionals with Fortune 100 companies. They are seeking a Senior Learning Experience Designer / Instructional Designer to design and build comprehensive learning journeys that translate complex FinTech and SaaS workflows into engaging experiences for a global audience.

Responsibilities

• Map and build full learning journeys tied to real workflows and the performance outcomes they're meant to move
• Produce storyboards and learning flows clear enough that development can run smoothly and at scale
• Take tired legacy material and rebuild it into something visual, current, and genuinely learner-first
• Grow the shared toolkit — design systems, frameworks, and reusable models others can build on
• Craft interactive facilitator-led sessions, complete with participant materials and facilitation guides
• Build persona-driven microlearning, simulations, and game mechanics that lift engagement and retention
• Use Articulate Storyline as the home base for builds — with AI feedback and interactions living inside the course itself — and design in Rise where clean localization matters
• Weave in video, animation, and other media so the finished experience feels cohesive and polished
• Rework existing templates for better flow and engagement — nothing ships straight out of the box
• Keep everything compliant, tracked, and QA'd in Docebo
• Lean on AI (Claude, Gemini, Notebook LM) to speed up outlining, drafting, content development, prototyping, file population, and revision cycles
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with SMEs to keep learning anchored to business goals and metrics
• Juggle several projects at once without losing speed, quality, or deadlines — and without needing much oversight
• Operate comfortably against SLAs

Skills

• Portfolio REQUIRED
• At least 5 years designing and developing instructional content, backed by a portfolio of end-to-end journeys, scenario work, and impact you can point to. We weigh the quality and speed of your work over a year count
• You already build with Generative AI (Claude, Gemini, Notebook LM) in live production — it's woven into how we work, not a nice-to-have
• Fast and assured in Articulate 360 (Storyline), Rise, Synthesia, and 7Taps, plus Figma or a comparable tool for quick prototyping and storyboarding
• Comfortable in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Audition) to create and integrate multimedia
• Enough fluency with JavaScript and Storyline web objects to know how they stretch what a course can do
• A track record building interactive, facilitator-led and live virtual sessions that are engaging, scalable, and outcomes-driven
• A reputation for shipping strong work quickly when volume is high
• Skilled at turning complicated systems into learning that changes performance
• Background designing for customer-facing teams or product training
• Evidence that your work moves the needle on engagement, adoption, and outcomes (NPS, completion, and the like)
• Experience creating reusable, scalable content and frameworks
• Grounded in learning science — cognitive load, Bloom's, the forgetting curve and spaced reinforcement, behavior change and motivation, and microlearning/chunking
• At home in Agile and fast-paced settings

Benefits

• 1099 or C2C (No W2)
• 6-month contract (strong likelihood of extension)
• 100% Remote (U.S. or Canadian candidates only)
• Standard U.S. business hours (EST/CST/MST/PST)
• Heavy Slack collaboration + Laptop provided

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