Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. The Learning Experience Designer II will develop digital-first solutions for K-12 reading, collaborating with a scrum team to create user-centered educational content while leveraging instructional design principles and data analysis.
Responsibilities
- Helps define the end-to-end user journey for all digital experiences on HMH's teaching and learning platform
- Demonstrates an ability to leverage and apply expertise in two or more areas: discipline-specific knowledge, assessment, social-emotional learning, hands-on learning, differentiation, standards analysis, data analytics, multilingual learner support, accessibility, culturally responsive education, metadata, etc
- May work flexibly across grade levels
- With minimal supervision, creates and adapts content and metadata for a research-based, digital-first experience that serves the needs of all learners
- Serves as a developer on a scrum team responsible for solving teaching and learning problems, relying on discovery and data analysis to test, develop, deliver, and iteratively optimize solutions in a variety of media formats
- Develops instructionally-sound content that delivers value to customers in keeping with capacity constraints and market expectations, often contributing fresh, innovative solutions that surprise and delight users
- Applies an agile approach to ensure work is completed on time and is of high quality. Actively participates in retrospectives to identify and offer improvements to internal processes
- Advocates for user research in order to inform decisions as teams address problems and develop solutions. Uses existing research and collaborates with the Research team to identify goals for further testing. Participates in research such as Teacher Panels and surveys. Summarizes findings and uses the findings to help drive solutions
- Applies insights from data from a variety of sources, including HMH's teaching and learning platform, to propose solutions to market problems
- Understands usage and efficacy data (e.g., task difficulty, time on task, growth data) to help iterate/improve upon user experience and instructional content
- Uses data to effectively communicate reasoning behind development decisions
- Delivers iterative solutions on time and within budget that meet market needs as measured by product sales, customer testimonials, and platform usage data
- Clearly communicates with core and extended team members to promote an effective work environment
- Meets educators' and students' needs with some active support/guidance from more senior members of the scrum team
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in education, Instructional Design, or related field
- 3-4 years of experience in instructional design for K-12 students or a combination of K-12 instructional design and teaching
- Expertise in K-12 Reading instruction
- K-12 teaching experience
- Experience designing content for biliteracy instruction (Spanish/English) and multilingual education
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Digital instructional material development and delivery
- Experience working on agile scrum teams, JIRA
- Experience working in a content management system
- Experience using data analysis/interpretation to inform solutions to market problems
- Experience creating and using metadata
Company Overview
We are a K-12 learning company that empowers educators. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.hmhco.com.