Learning Experience Designer

Get to Know Us

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

Make Your Mark

Are you an experienced accounting or finance professional looking to leverage your expertise in a new and exciting way? As a Learning Experience Designer at BlackLine, you will be the subject matter expert who helps empower our customers, partners, and employees to transform their accounting processes using our industry-leading software. Your focus will be to create innovative, product-focused learning solutions for our customers and partners. You will apply your experience in accounting and finance, BlackLine products, and instructional design to create content through all project phases: planning, design, development, and delivery. In our fast-paced environment, you must be comfortable working on multiple projects across various stakeholder groups.

You'll Get To

• Leverage your accounting or finance knowledge to develop and update engaging and practical training classes on Blackline products, including eLearning courses, videos, instructor-led training, and exams, following provided methodology.
• Translate complex accounting principles into clear, understandable concepts within the context of our software.
• Collaborate with our Technical Trainers, stakeholders, and other subject matter experts to ensure our training content is accurate, relevant, and impactful.
• Follow and maintain formal project plans and tracking systems for each project in development and adhere to deadlines, including managing your projects from concept to release in conjunction with Training Leadership
• Demonstrate a high level of writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting training materials
• Ensure the final project deliverables are of the highest quality and positively impact learning outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across the organization, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and customer success.
• Stay current with accounting industry standards, implementation developments, and trends to ensure your expertise remains cutting-edge.
• Share instructional design ideas with team members and collaborate on new models and templates.
• On occasion, deliver content (across multiple product lines) to different audiences via classroom (public, onsite), virtual classroom, and recorded formats
• Other duties as assigned.
• Ability to travel 10%.

What You'll Bring

Years of Experience in Related Field: 2-4 years of hands-on experience in a corporate accounting or finance role (e.g., Accountant, Financial Analyst, Controller, Auditor) and at least 1 year of experience in technical instructional design and evaluation

Education: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent work experience

We’re Even More Excited If You Have

• Experience using BlackLine or other financial close automation software
• Experience building effective class materials using tools such as Articulate Rise, Synthesia,and Microsoft PowerPoint
• General understanding of adult learning theory

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

• Leverage your accounting or finance knowledge to develop and update engaging and practical training classes on Blackline products, including eLearning courses, videos, instructor-led training, and exams, following provided methodology.
• Translate complex accounting principles into clear, understandable concepts within the context of our software.
• Collaborate with our Technical Trainers, stakeholders, and other subject matter experts to ensure our training content is accurate, relevant, and impactful.
• Follow and maintain formal project plans and tracking systems for each project in development and adhere to deadlines, including managing your projects from concept to release in conjunction with Training Leadership
• Demonstrate a high level of writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting training materials
• Ensure the final project deliverables are of the highest quality and positively impact learning outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across the organization, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and customer success.
• Stay current with accounting industry standards, implementation developments, and trends to ensure your expertise remains cutting-edge.
• Share instructional design ideas with team members and collaborate on new models and templates.
• On occasion, deliver content (across multiple product lines) to different audiences via classroom (public, onsite), virtual classroom, and recorded formats
• Other duties as assigned.
• Ability to travel 10%.

Years of Experience in Related Field: 2-4 years of hands-on experience in a corporate accounting or finance role (e.g., Accountant, Financial Analyst, Controller, Auditor) and at least 1 year of experience in technical instructional design and evaluation

Education: Bachelor's degree or the equivalent work experience