About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

American Century Investments is looking for a Learning Consultant and Instructional Designer to work in Kansas City. The designer will create engaging and effective live instructor led, e-Learns and micro-learns courses, learner guides and training manuals, and develop visual, audio and interactive learning assets. The role involves coordinating and leading development meetings with stakeholders and subject matter specialists, guiding them through the course development process, meeting milestones and deadlines and ensuring that our training program drives measurable results.

The Learning Consultant also develops and engages with learning strategies for corporate-wide initiatives in support of our company’s Winning Behaviors values. The role also optimizes training programs by ensuring the curriculum remains relevant, progressive and engaging by staying current in learning and development trends that reach across all levels of employees and delivery methods.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Conduct Needs Assessments and Define Business Outcomes
• Design and Develop Engaging E-learning and Instructor-led content by implementing strategies to keep learners engaged and motivated throughout the learning experience.
• Apply Learning Expertise using industry standard methodologies and adult learning principles
• Perform content research to gather and curate educational content relevant to learning objectives and business outcomes
• Shape the learning experience by providing recommendations on design specifications, storyboards, and interactive simulations to enhance learner engagement and knowledge retention.
• Assessment Design by developing evaluation tools like quizzes, assignments and exams to measure learning outcomes.
• Create Learning Analytics by using data analytics tools to evaluate the effectiveness of courses and learning modules.
• Collaborate and iterate by facilitating both formal and informal reviews of content with subject matter specialists and other relevant team members to ensure accuracy and effectiveness.
• Execute Project Management by creating and overseeing the project timeline, resources and team members involved in the course development.
• Facilitate instructor-led courses and workshops and train-the-trainers where subject matter specialists are used to deliver training.
• Maintain thorough documentation of the course development process, updates and evaluations.ecommend 5-8 bullets max

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Masters in Instructional Design or Technologies
• Articulate 360 experience, Articulate storyline and Articulate Rise experience
• Experience with using consultative skills to help leaders identify training/development needs
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills—written, verbal, presentation/training delivery and facilitation
• Strong influencing and relationship building skills
• Project management—ability to balance multiple, concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment
• 6-10 years of experience in instructional design, eLearn development and curriculum development
• Proven success working with senior business leaders
• Designing and completing learning strategy— e-Learn, ILT, micro learns, videos
• Leading learning and development projects
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Experience with Vyond AI Video Creation
• Text and transcript generation
• Workday Learning Management System knowledge and experience
• Human Performance Improvement certification
• Asset Management &/or Financial Services industry experience

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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