Job Description:
What are we looking for?
Education & Professional Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent professional experience in instructional design, learning design, education, or a related field. * Formal training or certification in instructional design, learning experience design, or human‑centred design is preferred. * Experience working in a corporate, higher‑education, or large‑scale learning environment. * Relevant experience aligned to role level with demonstrated leadership of design practice or communities.
Knowledge / Experience
* Deep expertise in instructional design for learning assets across multiple formats, including presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, and live session content. * Strong understanding of adult learning principles, accessibility standards, and learner‑centred design as applied specifically to learning assets. * Proven ability to define, apply, and evolve asset standards, templates, and quality criteria at scale. * Experience designing assets with deployment, reuse, governance, and maintenance in mind. * Experience establishing and running quality assurance or review processes for learning assets. * Ability to identify gaps, risks, and inconsistencies in learning assets and take corrective action through guidance and standards rather than re‑doing the work. * Strong documentation skills to ensure assets are clearly specified, complete, and ready for handover. * Experience working in a matrixed environment with Learning Experience Leads, Learning Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts, and deployment teams. * Ability to balance business needs, timelines, and constraints while maintaining asset quality and design integrity. * Comfortable operating as a design authority, influencing without owning end‑to‑end delivery. * Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing instructional designers or design communities, building consistent capability and confidence in asset creation. * Experience setting clear expectations for quality, ways of working, and review processes across a design team or community. * Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback that improves quality and reduces rework. * Experience supporting onboarding and upskilling of designers in tools, templates, and asset standards. * undefined
What will be your key responsibilities?
* Own and evolve standards, templates, and quality criteria for learning assets across Mars U. * Define what “good” looks like for learning assets across formats (presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, live session content). * Ensure consistent application of asset standards aligned to the Learning Experience Playbook and agreed technology choices. * Provide clear direction on asset structure, level of detail, accessibility, and learner usability. * Lead, coach, and develop a large community of instructional designers (up to ~40) focused on high‑quality learning asset creation. * Build strong, consistent capability in asset design, development, and documentation across the team. * Set clear expectations for asset quality, ways of working, and review processes. * Support onboarding and upskilling of instructional designers in tools, templates, and asset standards. * Act as a role model for strong, learner‑centred learning asset design. * Establish and run quality assurance processes for learning assets across Mars U. * Review learning assets created by others to identify gaps, risks, or quality issues before handover. * Ensure assets are complete, consistent, accessible, and clearly documented for deployment teams. * Provide clear, actionable feedback to improve asset quality and reduce rework downstream. * Personally design or build learning assets only in exceptional cases, such as complex programs, flagship initiatives, or to model best practice for the team.
What can you expect from Mars?
* Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles. * Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. * A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. * An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.