Senior Manager, Senior Instructional Designer

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Schwab’s Risk & Regulatory Learning team is a team of learning professionals with the power to transform employee behaviors and mindsets. The goal of our training team is to connect employee’s day to day risk management practices back to Schwab’s customer focused mission of “Seeing Through Client’s Eyes.”

As a Senior Instructional Designer (Sr. Manager), you will be a proactive team partner who analyzes, designs, develops and maintains interactive, blended learning solutions that are support organizational goals and objectives. Your work will touch employees across the Company.

The Risk & Regulatory Instructional Design Team aspires to take a learner-centered approach to our work to produce experiences that inspire and empower Schwab employees to realize their full potential. We want to make learning about Risk Management and Compliance topics easy and dare we say engaging.

If you have a passion for good design and have a love of learning, we are seeking someone like you. Read on to learn more about what we are looking for.

What you're good at

• Work with business partners and internal consultants to lead through the ADDIE model with an emphasis on Analysis, Design and Development phases
• Conduct analysis to identify key behaviors and mindsets that will mature our risk management capabilities and create meaningful learning experiences
• Maintain a strong learner focus by seeking out opportunities to gather learner inputs, prototype and share back findings to influence in creating impactful solutions
• Generate a design strategy that addresses : Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
• Gain agreement on your proposed design strategy, defining design approach and deliverables that will make up the learning experiences you create
• Design and develop effective learning experiences that reflect your ability to apply learning theory. Be the confident design expert that leads the team through the process.
• Lead effective project meetings and working sessions that get results by setting meeting goals, demonstrating superior verbal communication, active listening, planning, and organizational skills
• Create your project plan and manage your work, including feedback and review cycles to successfully meet milestone dates and training implementation deadline
• Ability to quickly build and sustain collaborative relationships with partners and colleagues
• Write compelling training materials; organize and communicate complex information in an easy-to-understand manner that facilitates learning, while following organizational writing guidelines
• Create and use visuals and multimedia interactions that enhance the learning experience and facilitate learning transfer through the application of visual and instructional design principles
• Ensure the learning solutions you create follow accessibility guidelines so that all employees can participate
• Build assessments that adhere to best industry practices and are piloted with learners and SMEs prior to implementation
• Articulate needs, risks, or implications, along with recommendations when scope changes or challenges surface
• Deliver quality products and adhering to team standards and processes

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

In addition to being able to do the above, you will have the following experiences and skills :

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Why work for us?

Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.

Benefits : A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home—today and in the future.