Instructional Designer

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 50 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations.

Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80 countries. Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of the Eruditus Group has more than 1,400 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai.

With offices in six countries, 1000+ employees and more than 100,000 student enrollments over the last 12 months, Emeritus is a global leader in the $280 billion global professional education market. In 2020, EMERITUS secured a $113 million Series D round with participation from Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia India, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Learning Design – designing to maximize the learning of the student; having a student centric approach in all decisions regarding design experience.

Storyboarding – translating the raw video footage into an accessible and engaging series of videos that enhance the student’s learning.

Visualization – using visual medium to convey ideas and enhance learning - creating visual representations of concepts, ensuring visual consistency and harmony in the videos.

Video reviews – checking the quality of videos received from the video editors.

Co-ordination with Production team – interacting with teammates the extended team (video editing partners) to create a top-quality product.

Skills and Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Educational Tech, Instructional Design, Mass Communication, or Journalism. An MBA degree is highly desirable.
• Specialized knowledge: Instructional design, online learning, video-based learning, mobile learning  Other characteristics: team player, ability to work in a global, virtual team, Prior experience in a startup environment will be helpful, innovative, attention to detail, ability to grasp technical concepts and simplify them visually, and an inclination towards understanding academic content.
• Professional certification: Instructional design, video editing a plus
• Experience: At least 6 years work experience in a fast-paced, growth environment in a similar role

Characteristics

• Team player
• Ability to work in agile methodology
• Ability to grasp technical concepts and simplify them visually
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Innovative
• Attention to detail
• An inclination towards understanding academic content

Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.