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This role owns the Business Unit-specific learning portfolio, including learning strategy, curriculum direction, content roadmaps, modality strategy, learning paths, course blueprints, and customer enablement plans.\nWorking across Product Management, R&D, Services, and technical subject matter experts, instructional designer translates complex technical products, customer workflows, and business objectives into effective learning solutions and development-ready course blueprints. Applying L & D expertise, instructional design principles, and learner-centered methodologies, this role defines learning objectives, audience needs, modality recommendations, assessments, practical activities, and success criteria to ensure training solutions drive customer proficiency, product adoption, and intended business outcomes.\nIN THIS ROLE, YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL:\nOwn and maintain the Education Services portfolio strategy, content roadmap, curriculum direction, learning paths, course blueprint and certification opportunities for assigned Business Units or product domains. \nGather, analyze, and synthesize stakeholder requirements, customer feedback, product roadmaps, support trends, business initiatives, and learning data to develop portfolio recommendations and roadmap priorities. \nDesign technical learning solutions and course blueprints that translate complex products, engineering concepts, and customer workflows into effective learning experiences using sound instructional design and adult learning principles. \nExplore and recommend innovative learning approaches, including AI-enabled learning experiences, digital learning technologies, and scalable customer education models. \nServe as the primary course owner throughout content development, ensuring solutions align with approved objectives, audience needs, customer outcomes, technical accuracy, instructional quality standards, and portfolio goals. \nCommunicate recommendations, priorities, trade-offs, and readiness decisions while facilitating alignment among stakeholders with competing business objectives. \nMonitor portfolio health, content performance, learner feedback, customer outcomes, and industry trends, continuously improving Education Services offerings to maximize customer proficiency and business value. \nWHO YOU ARE: You are a strategic thinker who connects customer outcomes, product strategy, business priorities, and learning needs into a cohesive education portfolio. You understand how learning experiences influence customer proficiency, product adoption, and long-term business success. You are comfortable working in ambiguity, evaluating multiple sources of information, and making informed recommendations, creating impactful learning paths and blueprints. You build strong partnerships across Business Units, Product Management, R&D, Services, and Subject Matter Experts, helping stakeholders align effective learning solutions and portfolio decisions. You combine learning design expertise with technical curiosity and business understanding, creating learning experiences that transform complex technical content into clear, practical, and impactful customer education.\nFOR THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, Technical Discipline, Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Technical Communication, or a related field. \n3+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Technical Training, Learning Experience Design, Customer Education, or related disciplines. \nStrong understanding of adult learning principles, instructional design methodologies, learning objectives, assessments, content sequencing, and modality selection. \nAbility to understand complex technical products and translate them into customer-focused learning requirements, learning strategies, and course designs. \nStrong analytical, business problem-solving, communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. \nExperience gathering, synthesizing, and prioritizing requirements from multiple stakeholders, and translating them into actionable recommendations based on customer outcomes, business priorities, product strategy, and data-driven insights. \nAuthorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the futureIndividuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS THAT SET YOU APART:\nExperience in industrial automation, software, test and measurement, engineering systems, or other complex technical product environments. \nExperience developing customer education strategies, learning portfolios, learning paths, certification programs, or customer enablement initiatives. \nExperience partnering with Product Management, Business Units, R&D, Services, or technical subject matter experts to define learning solutions and portfolio strategies. \nExperience with digital learning ecosystems, learning technologies, AI-enabled learning experiences, or scalable content development approaches. \nTechnical curiosity and the ability to quickly develop sufficient product and customer workflow understanding to influence learning design decisions and challenge assumptions constructively. \nOur Culture & Commitment to You\nWe recognize that for our organization to support a diverse workforce, we must focus on employee wellbeing. We know that to do your best work, you must have flexible, competitive benefit plans to meet you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. We provide a market-leading 401(k) and profit-sharing plan, a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, family formation benefits in addition to paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture prioritizes work-life balance and offers flexible time off plans, inclusive of vacation, holiday, and sick leave. Our goal is to offer a strong benefits foundation while allowing employees the flexibility to choose options that best suit their needs.\nAt Emerson, we are committed to fostering a culture where every employee is valued and respected for their unique experiences and perspectives. We believe a diverse and inclusive work environment contributes to the rich exchange of ideas and diversity of thoughts, that inspires innovation and brings the best solutions to our customers.\nOur training programs and initiatives focus on end-to-end development, from onboarding through senior leadership. 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