Interview Plan: Learning

Hopper embraces a modern approach to learning designed to bring the best out of our people. Our employees learn virtually and often asynchronously from all over the world, alongside a superstar training team to guide their growth and success. As a Learning Specialist, you will design, develop, and implement learning strategies, courses, and content to help our Service Optimization team reach peak performance. In this role, you will assume ownership of a vertical and work directly with those stakeholders to deliver timely, meaningful, and relevant training for our agents. You will help continually improve our onboarding program and upskilling efforts with the majority of your efforts focused on instructional design and building and maintaining online courses via Guru.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- +3 years of experience in learning program management and instructional design
- Broad understanding of travel management (flights) and travel agent functions
- Broad understanding of learning & development and quality assurance in contact centers
- Experience working in Flight GDSes, mainly Sabre & Amadeus
- NDC experience is a plus
- Strong instructional design skills with a focus on e-Learning and self-guided learning for travel agents
- Experience in building Learning & Development Courses
- Understanding of common learning theories and models (Knowles, Bloom, Gagne, Kirkpatrick, etc.)
- Excellent direct communication skills, written and verbalEnthusiasm and curiosity for conducting research and answering hard questions with data
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to create solutions for operational problems
- Material experience in responding quickly and efficiently to organizational and operational changes
- Ability to develop trainer facing material (facilitator guides) in an easy to digest format

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and implement learning strategies and training programs via instructional design that drive performance
- Conduct regularly a training needs analysis (TNA) with stakeholders
- Create content for on-demand training courses & facilitator-led training
- Build, organize, and optimize all learning materials (online courses, facilitator guides, job aids, activities, etc.)
- Work with stakeholders to guide and suggest training material based on their needs and projected roadmaps
- Develop content for onboarding, upskilling, and more
- Ensure standards are upheld for facilitator-led trainings including record keeping
- Manage Learning Libraries and assign courses and learning paths
- Use data to evaluate the effectiveness of trainingIntegrate quality assurance feedback into the learning content development planImplement best practices that support adult learning
- Experiment with new ideas—we are an adventurous bunch

**Benefits**:

- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
- Hopper offers group medical and dental insurance to full-time employees
- Hopper offers life insurance with short term and long term disability coverage
- All employees and dependents have access to telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards
- Unlimited PTO
- Carrot Cash travel stipend
- Flexdesk Access Pass & Work-from-home stipend
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
- Open communication with management and company leadership.Small, dynamic teams = massive impact

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**More about Hopper**

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally - powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions - helping people travel better and save more on their trips.

The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers - with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.

While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a global travel agency and travel fintech provider that powers some of the world’s largest brands.

Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like