.GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.We are seeking a talented Instructional Designer to join GP Strategies in support of our Microsoft client account. The ideal candidate will be a creative thinker, with a passion for designing engaging and effective learning solutions across a variety of learning platforms and modalities including eLearning, instructor-led, group/social, applied learning, coaching/mentoring, video/podcast, and document-based learning experiences. They will have proven success applying adult learning best practices, and a strong curiosity for emerging learning techniques and technologies including AI and gamification. The candidate must thrive in dynamic, collaborative, and agile team environments and have strategies for soliciting quality content and feedback with subject matter experts within both iterative and formal (ADDIE) development cycles. Our ID roles require strong emotional intelligence, listening and communication skills, and a proven ability to influence and contribute while being responsive to direction from our Microsoft customers. Our IDs are expected to be proactive self-starters who are very comfortable with ambiguity and can independently drive the instructional design process and make progress and solve problems without being directed, assigned, or micromanaged. Our ideal candidate will have experience developing scenario-based trainings in sales enablement (solution sales), professional skills, and technical/technology content areas. Passion for technology and experience designing trainings for sales, technical sales, and engineering roles in big tech organizations like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. is a big plus. Fluency with eLearning rapid development platforms like Articulate RISE is required as is the ability and desire to train oneself quickly on new platforms and processes not currently mastered.Key Responsibilities:Design & Content Development:Develop and design high-quality instructional materials, including e-learning courses, training manuals, job aids, and multimedia content.Develop realistic and challenging sales scenarios that mirror the complexities of the tech sales landscape.Utilize strong writing skills to create compelling content and scenarios, making use of creative writing, narrative, storytelling techniques.Design creative and effective online trainings with Articulate RISE & Storyline, Captivate, PowerPoint, MOOC, video, and Teams platforms.Apply adult learning and instructional design strategies to enhance learner engagement and retention