Instructional Designer I

About the Role

Join Daikin Learning, the training arm of Daikin Applied—the world’s largest HVAC company and a Forbes-recognized Best-In-State Employer 2025. We drive business value by delivering excellence in technical HVAC education to our sales, service, and internal teams. As an Instructional Designer I, you will modernize how we teach by designing and developing high-impact learning content that delivers measurable performance outcomes. This role leads design projects and directs external instructional designers on technical engineering topics across multiple modalities.

Responsibilities

• Instructional Design & Development (70%)
  • Leverage high-impact instructional design methodology to create engaging, interactive learning experiences aligned to business results.
  • Develop solutions in a variety of modalities: virtual classrooms, eLearning, video, learning pathways, playlists, and instructor-led training.
  • Contribute to the evaluation and selection of learning technologies for the organization.
  • Apply the Instructional Design process and support senior team members on projects.
• Project Coordination (20%)
  • Manage multiple simultaneous projects using standard learning project management practices and tools (charter, scope, schedule, risk, dashboard).
  • Ensure projects are delivered on-time and within scope.
• Performance Consulting (10%)
  • Partner with senior learning team members, leaders, sponsors, and subject matter experts to identify learning opportunities that drive business results.
  • Produce needs analysis and learner personas to deliver innovative, performance-based learning outcomes.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage learning and collaborative technologies to enhance the learner experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university in Learning, Education, Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• 1–2 years of instructional design experience.
• Experience with authoring tools and design/development of VILT, eLearning, micro-learning, and ILT.
• Strong knowledge of design/development tools, modalities, and technology.
• Familiarity with the ADDIE model.
• Strong communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience leveraging various design modalities: Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT), eLearning, micro-learning, and learning pathways.
• Agile design and project management skills.
• Experience with human resources, leadership, or corporate training topics.
• Proficiency with tools such as Adobe Suite, SnagIt, Webex, Camtasia, Pathway, Cornerstone, Articulate, Vyond, and Intrepid.

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options, plus dental and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2%.
• Company-provided life insurance, plus optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees, plus 11 company-paid holidays.
• Vacation accrual on a monthly basis (or faster, as required by law).
• Paid sick time in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service.

Pay

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $59,500 to $97,900 in Minnesota. Individual base pay will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Schedule

This position is based in Plymouth, MN, and follows a hybrid work model.