Instructional Designer

At Sidebar, our mission is to connect leaders and catalyze extraordinary success. Our vision is everyone’s full potential, unleashed. Sidebar is a private community of exceptional leaders who are matched in small peer groups to help each other achieve their goals faster.

Some things we’re proud of

🔬 Sidebar uses science-based algorithms to place exceptional leaders with the right group of peers who can help each other get better at their work the fastest.

🕴️ Working at Sidebar means working on the future of work and leadership development.

⏳ The waitlist list of potential members to join is 20,000 and growing.

🌱 We publicly launched last October and raised a super seed of $13.5M alongside world-class angels and investors, including the team at Foundation Capital, Scribble Ventures, and the founders of Pinterest, Front, and several senior executives from Facebook.

🗺️ Founded in 2022 in San Diego by veteran ex-FAANG product leaders.

About the role

We are seeking a highly-skilled and creative Instructional Designer to uplevel our already strong leadership program. In this role, you will play a critical role in creating engaging and effective learning experiences for our members. You will use your expertise in instructional design methodologies, learning theory, writing skill, and design to create innovative solutions that align with our business objectives and promote member engagement.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in training design and program development, excellent communication skills, and a passion for knowledge transfer, including turning the complex into easy to understand concepts.

As an Instructional Designer, you’ll…

• Design and implement engaging and comprehensive learning opportunities encompassing a range of methods such as live instruction, peer-to-peer engagement, on-demand coursework, playbook creation, and customized coaching sessions
• Utilize instructional design & writing methodologies to create engaging and interactive learning solutions, including digital learning, virtual facilitator-led programs, microlearning, and supporting documentation
• Design activities and assessments which promote hands-on and experiential learning
• Analyze program needs by conducting needs assessments and audience analysis to identify program objectives and appropriate strategies
• Author, maintain, and update programs, utilizing real-time facilitation evaluation data to inform ongoing maintenance and design needs
• Build member facing training based on member needs and feedback
• Build assessments to track member progress
• Develop a network with facilitators. Intake, act upon, and track content feedback from facilitators and members
• Stay abreast of industry trends, innovations and emerging technologies in instructional design and digital learning to continually enhance the effectiveness of learning solutions

About you

You’ll thrive as an Instructional Designer, if you have:

• Experience in coaching, coaching training/certification and have created coaching-related programming.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively present to a wide range of audiences
• Proven examples of written skill with taking the technically complex to simple concepts
• Understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design concepts
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Portfolio or samples of previous instructional design work showcasing a variety of learning solutions and multimedia assets
• A passion for continuous learning and professional growth

We strongly encourage candidates from under-represented communities to apply. We can better build for everyone when our core team represents everyone.

Sidebar is a distributed team with headquarters in San Diego, CA. This role is remote within the United States. We offer competitive compensation and benefits.