Red Nucleus is hiring an Instructional Designer to join our global team! This role can be hybrid out of our Yardley, PA office, or full-time remote in the US. Candidates must be able to work EST hours.

Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services, and medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of nearly 800 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.

At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a “Great Place to Work”.

How You Will Contribute

As an Essential Skills Instructional Designer, your primary responsibilities will center around curating, supporting, enhancing, and evolving our existing library of on-demand Essential Skills courses, some of which can be found here: https://www.rednucleus.com/rnti.

Core to the role will be for you to develop an unmatched understanding of our Essential Skills training portfolio that includes e-learning, workshops, simulations, job aids, and other learning support tools. After mastering the content and tools in our Essential Skills portfolio, you will support business development efforts by educating Red Nucleus Business Development Directors about Essential Skills offerings, developing sales support materials, participating in sales calls, and expertly running demos of any tools in our portfolio.

Post-sale, you will consult with clients to tailor solutions and implement customizations that align with their objectives.

While much of your time will be spent immersed in Essential Skills, you may also have opportunities to collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams to design fully custom learning solutions as time permits. See more about our custom L&D solutions here: https://www.rednucleus.com/ld.

Key responsibilities include:

Content Management, Enhancement, and Curation

• Curate, support, enhance, and evolve a library of existing Essential Skills workshops, e-learning modules, and simulations
• Update content to improve clarity, relevance, timing, graphics, and learner engagement while maintaining sound instructional design and adult learning principles
• Analyze client feedback to determine if customizations should evolve into global updates for master programs
• Coordinate artists, editors, medical writers, and developers for enhancements as needed
• Implement and maintain version control and archiving of course materials

Client Collaboration and Customization

• Consult with clients to help them understand training objectives, content, functions, and logistics
• Tailor content to meet specific client needs, logistics, and/or learning objectives; this includes e-learning, workshops (PPTs, facilitator and participant materials, communications, etc), simulations, job aids and other learning support tools
• Implement basic graphic updates (eg, logos, disclaimers) as required

Sales Enablement

• Act as the primary resource for Business Development Directors who are introducing Essential Skills offerings to clients
• Create, enhance, and maintain core sales support materials such as PDFs, presentations, video demos, and testimonials
• Support Essential Skills sales efforts by participation in:
  • Discovery calls
  • Pre-pitch planning and consultation
  • Pitch and client presentations
  • Program and simulation demos
• Create and deliver internal knowledge sessions and communications to train project teams and business development staff on key aspects of Essential Skills offerings, tools and customizations

Custom Instructional Design Support (As Time Allows)

• Consult with clients and Red Nucleus project teams to shape the design of fully custom learning solutions
• Contribute to ideation and design of workshops, e-learning modules, podcasts, videos, simulations, and AI-enabled tools
• Contribute ideas, participate in brainstorming, and generally support the internal community of Red Nucleus instructional designers and learning strategists

About You

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required
• 2+ years of instructional design experience
• Familiarity with Essential Skills topics or experience in an agency setting is preferred
• Deep knowledge of instructional design models, best practices, and adult learning principles
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage version control and customization processes
• Effective communicator with excellent written and verbal presentation abilities
• Self-motivated problem solver who thrives in dynamic environments
• Comfortable presenting to and engaging with clients in professional discussions
• PowerPoint expertise
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and Adobe Acrobat
• Ability to work EST hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in pharmaceutical, medical device, or biotechnology sales training is a plus
• Experience writing for multimedia formats
• Willingness to travel occasionally for client meetings and events
• Familiarity with tools like Camtasia, CapCut, Audacity, Synthesia, Vyond, Murf AI, Descript, and Adobe Creative Suite is preferred
• Experience with Articulate Storyline is a plus

What You Will Enjoy at Red Nucleus

• Competitive pay, incentives, retirement, and income security programs
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness programs focused on healthy lifestyles
• Generous paid time off, employee assistance programs and flexible work arrangements
• Performance driven environment including professional development and transfer opportunities
• People first culture fostering self expression, diversity, and a growth mindset
• Celebrations! We love to celebrate service anniversaries, holidays, diversity and inclusion events, project milestones and anything else that is meaningful to our employees
• Support of the community organizations you are passionate about
• Ongoing programs and events designed to bring our global team together

Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To learn more about working at Red Nucleus, please visit Careers I Red Nucleus.

About Organization

Advancing knowledge to improve lives.™
We are a global strategic partner with decades of experience across the entire life sciences product lifecycle. We excel in providing our clients with unique insights and efficiencies to support them in their journey to improve health outcomes and ultimately the quality of people’s lives. By connecting our full suite of products and services from scientific and advisory services, market access, medical communications and learning and development, we are the “red thread” to lead our life sciences clients through transformational change to accelerate customer success.

Visit the new rednucleus.com to learn more.