At Cogstate, we’re advancing the science of brain health—making it faster, easier, and more accurate to assess cognition across clinical trials, healthcare settings, and everyday life.
Our digital cognitive assessments are trusted by researchers, clinicians, and pharmaceutical partners around the world, helping to drive breakthroughs in neuroscience and improve outcomes for people living with neurological conditions. Founded on decades of cognitive science and backed by rigorous validation, Cogstate’s assessments are used in more than 150 countries and over 2,000 clinical trials.
Our global team of experts—spanning psychology, data science, operations, and technology—works together to solve complex challenges in brain health assessment, always with a patient-first mindset. Whether we’re supporting a multinational Alzheimer’s trial or developing tools to bring cognitive testing into routine care, our work is meaningful, collaborative, and constantly evolving.
At Cogstate, we’re not just imagining the future of brain health—we’re building it.
That’s why we’re seeking an Instructional Designer who will have direct involvement in the design, development, delivery and maintenance of e-learning content focused on topics related to Cogstate products as well as creating learning content for Cogstate staff. The type of training content developed will primarily be related to Central Nervous System (CNS) cognitive assessments.
This is a highly consultative and collaborative role in which the Instructional Designer will consult with key stakeholders in the organization to identify education and enablement needs, make solution recommendations, and oversee program execution. The externally-focused learning programs will center on the operational knowledge and skills that sponsor project teams, site staff, and caregivers across the Cogstate’s ecosystem need in order to complete their study-related tasks.
This is a 6-month independent contractor role, with an expected workload of approximately 30 hours per week. There may be an opportunity to explore a transition to a full-time employment position at the end of the contract term, subject to business needs and mutual agreement. Candidates must be based in the United States.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) to create engaging and compelling eLearning courses (device agnostic) and other training programs/materials.
- Ensure deliverables are completed on time with high quality and adhere to company standards.
- Review and update course content during each product/patch-release cycle.
- Respond to inquiries using good judgement, tact and courtesy, sometimes in stressful situations.
- Stay up to date with Storyline 360 updates and new features.
- Collaborate across functional areas with relevant team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required; or equivalent years of experience.
- Advanced experience in Storyline 360 (preferred experience with the AI tool)
- 5-7 years eLearning development experience
- Clinical Trials industry experience a plus
Skills, Knowledge and Specialist Expertise
- Experience creating and evaluating materials
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented, organized and concise
- Ability to understand software products and write structured course content in a consistent fashion
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Self-motivated, able to assume responsibility and work autonomously in a professional manner
- Must be able to work with a team, but also excel independently, and have the ability to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines while consistently delivering high quality work.
This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States.
Wage range below lists hourly rate.
Wage Range
$35—$45 USD
Our Culture
We bring our whole selves to work every day. We’re courageous and we deliver together. We’re passionate individuals who enjoy working together. We’re brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude. We see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.
If you’re ready to help us in our journey to optimize the measurement of brain health around the world, please apply now!
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What We Do
The brain is central to every aspect of our lives, yet it isn’t monitored with the same consistency and proactivity as other vital signs. As a neuroscience technology company, we believe that better brain health insights lead to better brain health outcomes. That's why we're on a mission to democratize cognitive health by radically simplifying the way it is measured.
For more than 20 years, we’ve proudly supported the research needs of biopharmaceutical companies and academic institutions, and the clinical care needs of physicians and individuals around the world. We create easy to use digital tests that provide rapid, reliable, and science-backed results and offer solutions that support the highest fidelity measurements possible.
We believe our team members should have flexibility as to how, when, and where they work. We work flexibly to support our global team, who mostly work from home––and offer opportunities for face-to-face collaboration at our offices in New Haven, Melbourne, and London. Our team members also have access to co-working spaces around the world.
