Senior Instructional Designer

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: 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 and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position
The senior instructional designer is responsible for creating, managing, optimizing, and training to high-quality curricula that support internal onboarding, field trainers, and sterile reprocessing initiatives, launches, and new product development. This role emphasizes content creation, curriculum development, project management, and training, with instructional design methodologies serving as a foundation for effective learning experiences. The individual in this role will interact with field trainers, engineers, regulatory teams, instructional designers, and multimedia developers to provide training and create educational materials that align with global reprocessing standards, compliance requirements, and evolving industry needs.

Essential Job Duties

(1). Training and facilitation:

• Serve as a reprocessing subject matter expert, maintaining up-to-date knowledge, expertise, and certifications to inform and drive training execution and curriculum development.
• Deliver virtual and in-person training sessions to diverse audiences, ensuring comprehension of complex processes like sterilization protocols.
• Support reprocessing signoff processes, exploratory in-services, and global I&A expansion and new product development (NPD).
• Complete required departmental qualifications and certifications.
• Collaborate and network with cross-functional experts (e.g., regulatory teams, engineers, field trainers, etc.) and align with evolving global reprocessing standards and competency objectives to enhance training effectiveness.
• Analyze complex reprocessing training challenges by evaluating various factors, including regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and learner needs, to develop effective curricula and training solutions, providing design feedback and input based on reprocessing expertise.

(2). Curriculum design and content development:

• Create learner-centric experiences, journeys, and training strategy that adhere to adult learning theory and instructional design principles.
• Design and develop accessible, engaging training materials for sterile processing, internal onboarding, commercial training, trainer field support, and hospital Care Teams and Sterile Processing Departments, including training guides, videos, scripts, e-learning modules, onboarding modules, assessments, and facilitator presentations.
• Analyze learner engagement, feedback and assessment results to make data-informed improvements to training materials, ensuring relevance and impact in real-world applications.
• Determine instructional design strategies, assessment techniques, and evaluation criteria to ensure impactful learning outcomes.
• Establish competency-based assessments and certification programs to measure learner success and competency-based skill development.
• Lead projects tailored to innovative training solutions, curricula design, and educational materials that address complex challenges while aligning with company objectives and global compliance standards.
• Lead and support video production, scheduling, and logistics.
   

(3). Project management and communication:

• Independently manage multiple projects,