Senior Learning Instructional Designer / Learning Experience Designer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa University (VU) is Visa’s world-class learning and development organization. At VU, we seek to ignite curiosity, fuel learning, and propel growth for everyone, everywhere, every day. This Sr Instructional Designer / Learning Experience Designer will have the dynamic opportunity to join VU’s large global footprint, collaborate with professionals across the organization, partner directly with subject matter experts (SMEs), and develop modern learning solutions that drive business impact and performance.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated excellence in human-centered design, navigating complex and matrixed organizations, stakeholder management, and a growth mindset for ongoing professional development. 

Responsibilities

• Partner with VU’s Growth & Functional Learning Team dedicated to Global Product and Value-Added Services to design and develop learning experiences supporting product knowledge and fluency across Visa, as well as product management excellence
• Leverage technical acumen to understand fundamental product information, to then translate that knowledge into consumable learning experiences
• Work with SMEs across Visa to understand learning needs and build effective and efficient learning solutions leveraging the latest in adult learning principles, design thinking and accessibility
• Design and develop innovative and scalable global learning solutions in a variety of formats, using modern learning technologies and methods to meet business objectives and drive impact
• Drive user acceptance testing, quality control checks, focus groups and interviews. Analyze feedback, and implement prioritized changes
• Engage with vendors to scale and augment team capacity, including managing project deliverables, delegating tasks, and acting as a conduit between SMEs and the vendor
• Partner with project management, delivery, business enablement teams, and other project members to ensure learning solutions are implemented seamlessly, on time, and within budget
• Work with a community of learning experience designers sharing best practices and expertise in learning capabilities, modalities, and tools, as well as following learning design standards, templates and guidelines established by VU
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while ensuring delivery of best-in-class experiences
• Stay on top of developments in the industry and utilize new and innovative learning technologies and approaches to take our products and experiences to the next level

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or three or more years of relevant experience with an advanced degree
• The ability to demonstrate technical expertise through the successful design and development of product or technical learning solutions
• Team player with the ability to collaborate with peers, share ideas, and openness to a diverse range of thinking and working
• Exposure to human-centered design principles and instructional design methodologies (e.g., ADDIE, Agile, Design Thinking) to create impactful and measurable learning solutions
• Proficiency with a variety of common authoring tools (e.g., Storyline, Rise, Synthesia, Camtasia) and creating learning solutions leveraging Gen AI and
• Experience designing with a range of modern channels (e.g., videos, micro, social/collaborative, mobile, experiential, adaptive, game-based, on-the-job, at the time of need, personalized performance support)
• Demonstrated passion for developing ho