Overview

At Cloud Academy, we‘re builders. Learning new technology is just as exciting for us as building it. We do this through utilizing and developing cutting-edge technology and empowering students, developers, engineers, and companies to build and grow products with robust and constantly updated cloud skills. Now is your chance to join our talented team that delivers unparalleled educational content to developers worldwide.

Are you a user-oriented instructional designer, with knowledge of best practices, but a willingness to be flexible as needed? Can you translate complex technical content into comprehensible – and compelling – learning materials? Do you enjoy working at a fast pace, and are you able to prioritize to make sure you hit key milestones and deadlines?

As a member of our research and content team, you will be challenged to produce new educational content for Cloud Academy, which has become an incredible resource for thousands of people worldwide. You’ll report to the Head of Content, and will work with our internal and contract SMEs to develop video courses, hands-on labs, and quizzing on topics across cloud computing.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with SMEs on writing and editing manuscripts, designing slides, recording videos as needed, as well as developing hands-on labs and quizzes to create engaging and effective learning materials.
  • Collaborate with the content team on research and development best practices and strategy.
  • Identify and support new and innovative content creation initiatives, including collaborating with product and development teams to build and implement them.
  • Research instructional design best practices, working with the content team and cross-functionally to implement them into content and product creation.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Experience working on on-demand, technical educational content.
  • Passionate about helping others learn, and about creating compelling and effective learning materials.
  • Knowledge of instructional design best practices – and an understanding of when they do and don’t apply.
  • Ability to dive into complex technology topics, and to gain quick understanding of them.
  • Project management experience, including consistently meeting deadlines.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, are self-motivated, and have a strong bias toward action.
  • Bonus points: Some developer or infrastructure experience on the cloud, with a passion for learning new technologies. Ideally some experience working with server virtualization (VMWare, Xen, etc.), IaaS and PaaS cloud (AWS, Azure, GCE, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Heroku, OpenStack, CloudStack, CloudFoundry).

BENEFITS

  • Competitive compensation
  • Stock options
  • Full benefits, including medical, dental and vision
  • Yearly budget for conferences/courses for your personal development
  • Regular travels to our US offices (San Francisco)
  • Your personal workstation (up to $2000)

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer at Cloud Academy. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Cloud Academy

At Cloud Academy, we’re obsessed with technology and how it’s changing the world around us. Everyday developers are creating new software, products and companies with better knowledge and faster tools. As the pace of innovation rapidly increases, cloud technologies are changing the IT industry worldwide. Students, developers and companies are all seeking simple solutions with quick results.

Cloud Academy is a continuous training solution that provides online training in 140+ countries worldwide. We measure everything we do and we help our customers getting track of their progress, so they use Cloud Academy to learn new skills, to achieve better positions in their companies and to start new challenging projects.

We provide training with different tools and technologies: video courses, an adaptive learning system within our quizzes and explanations and real hands-on labs. Our customers are big enterprises (Deloitte, Accenture, CSC etc.), small businesses looking at Cloud Academy as a solution to keep their tech teams updated, and thousands of individuals who want to unlock the Cloud potentials, becoming experts on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and many other Cloud solutions.

Our Headquarters are in San Francisco. We are backed by top ventures firms in Silicon Valley and have offices in San Francisco and Mendrisio (Switzerland, Ticino).