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Seeking a Content Designer to create immersive simulations and content for virtual training at Mursion, aimed at enhancing professional learning through behavioral skills development.

Responsibilities: Key duties include designing live and on-demand simulations, authoring participant-facing materials, collaborating with stakeholders, leading training sessions, and analyzing simulation data for improvements.

Skills: Required skills include content development, strong writing, technical curiosity, and the ability to work collaboratively and independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications are 2+ years in content development, a background in psychology or creative storytelling, and strong project management abilities.

Location: This is a fully remote position with no specific location requirements.

Compensation: $65000 - $70000 / Annually

Who We Want: We seek talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission to leverage virtual reality technology to reinvent professional learning, and who are motivated to help Mursion become the premier global platform for virtual simulation training for behavioral skills. We value empathy, curiosity, and constant improvement both in our internal operations and when working with partners and clients. Our employees are most successful when they employ strong collaboration skills, skilled communications, a problem-solving orientation, and demonstrate comfort in an evolving and fast-paced startup environment.

Position Overview: We are currently seeking a Content Designer to develop immersive simulations and related content that reflect real-world workplace dynamics and enable meaningful skill practice and business impact. The ideal candidate will be a quick learner excited to support the development of high quality, science-backed simulations that drive impact for our participants and customers. The Content Designer is detail-oriented, enjoys working closely with others, asks questions and is receptive to feedback and instruction while bringing a diverse perspective, balances proactivity and initiative with collaboration and teamwork, and is comfortable working in fast-paced environments.

This is a fully remote, full-time, salaried position reporting to the Senior Research Scientist. This position has a compensation range of $65,000-$70,000 annual salary.

Responsibilities:

Design Live and On-demand simulations in alignment with Mursion’s science-backed approach and standard operating procedures, crafting authentic storylines and conversations that reflect real-world workplace dynamics and contexts that support the practice of essential skills and capabilities.
Author participant- and client-facing materials for simulations that effectively prepares participants for practice and equips clients with clear, accessible descriptions of simulations that demonstrate their relevance and value.
Learn and apply Mursion’s skills framework to design simulations that accurately and effectively reflect targeted behaviors, ensuring authenticity and alignment with desired outcomes.
Participate in and lead scenario testing, feedback, and evaluation.
Draft scoring criteria for scenarios that enable valid and reliable AI assessment of simulation performance to deliver participants accurate, actionable feedback and provide customers with insights that demonstrate workforce impact and measurable return on investment.
Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to define and refine scenario-specific design specifications.
Create training materials for Live simulations, ensuring Simulation Specialists are prepared to deliver the scenarios accurately, authentically, and consistently.
Lead training sessions for the Simulation Specialists.
Test, iterate on, modify, and refine Mursion simulations.
Analyze data and feedback to maintain, improve, and update simulations.

Qualifications

2+ years of experience in content development (e.g., learning design, skill development) and/or creative storytelling (e.g., screenwriting, video games, character-driven narratives).
Background in psychology, behavioral economics, scripted improv, and/or research methods preferred but not required.
Strong writing and copyediting skills.
Technical curiosity and comfort working with and learning about AI tools, scenario-building technology, data analysis, etc.
Ability to work both cross-functionally and independently; excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Effectively builds relationships and trust with colleagues within the team and across the organization.
Demonstrated strengths in attention to detail, curiosity, adaptability, perspective taking, and collaboration, with the ability to produce quality content in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Strong project management experience and ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.

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