Learning Designer, NA

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

People and Culture/Learning and Development

The People and Culture (P&C) team is responsible for managing the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment through retirement, collaborating closely with various departments such as New Site Development, Construction, Operations, Sales, Finance, Tech & Systems, and Legal to ensure a cohesive and supportive work environment. Our P&C team is distinguished by its proactive and strategic approach. Unlike in many organizations where P&C functions are limited to administrative oversight, our P&C professionals are empowered with the authority and responsibility to drive critical processes directly.

This includes talent acquisition, employee development, performance management, and organizational planning. By leveraging in-house expertise, our P&C team can align long-term organizational sustainability with innovative P&C practices and cost-effective strategies. This alignment ensures that our workforce is engaged, motivated, and equipped to contribute to the company's success. Each member of our P&C team plays a pivotal role in making high-impact decisions, resulting in a more dynamic and productive work environment.

Position Overview

This role can be based in our Denver, CO or Ashburn, VA office in alignment with our flexible work policy. (3 days onsite required, 2 days flexible), or it can also be based remotely within the US.

Vantage is seeking a consultative designer to join our growing Learning and Development team to focus on designing and developing rich, engaging and scalable learning experiences for role-specific learning and general learning assets for the Vantage workforce in North America. The Learning and Development team is responsible for ensuring that our workforce has the knowledge, skills and behaviors to be successful.

The ideal candidate will have a strong builder's mindset, a tolerance for ambiguity, can work with complex design tools, have a passion for creative problem solving and is eager to advise and partner with stakeholders to deliver a quality product. Additionally, the ideal candidate combines instructional design expertise with a deep understanding of user-centric design principles to craft scalable learning solutions across various modalities.

Essential Job Functions

• Conducts gap analysis and collaborates to develop clear and measurable objectives and metrics, and tie learning to business outcomes for audiences across North America.

• Consults with stakeholders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and leadership regarding learning methodology, instructional design principles, and learning data to inform design.

• Dedicated to integrating multiple channels in a fresh and inventive way, including instructor-led, experiential, and self-paced.

• Design and develop innovative, comprehensive curriculums and certification programs, utilizing advanced design/development techniques, including generative AI, and tools of adult learning theory.

• Creates exercises and activities (audio, video, animations, simulations, presentations, role plays, games etc.) that enhance the learning process.

• Quickly synthesize and create engaging and effective learning experiences and content based on information from existing internal content, facilitators, subject matter experts, previous training courses, etc.

• Select the appropriate level of measurement for new programs and design measurement tools (e.g., certification process), and update content as needed.

• Oversee and manage instructional design projects, ensuring timely completion of tasks, adherence to deadlines, and effective communication with stakeholders.

• Maintains project documentation, assets, auditing criteria, compliance regulations, and intellectual property…