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The Future Of Online
Learning Starts With You

We work in many languages, many countries and many industries to develop and engage the highest-performing teams through the power of eLearning education.

When you join OpenSesame, you join a remarkable team of innovators who genuinely care about making a difference through meaningful work.

That’s our story; we’d love to hear yours.

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We Are A Workplace
To Be Yourself

Our differences strengthen our work. We are committed to inclusion across race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, age, and identity. Diverse voices are vital to our expertise and our customer’s success. We offer everyone the chance to grow and enjoy a relaxed culture where we all feel at home.

Learn more about DEI at OpenSesame

Meet your future coworkers

We hire innovative, growth-minded talent and provide them with the freedom to create products people love and follow their own goals. We work hard, challenge ourselves to learn quickly, embrace daily improvements and support each other and our customers every step of the way.

Liza Wisner

Liza Wisner (she/her)

Senior Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Curation Specialist
Corpus Christi, Texas

What has been the best part of your role?
I am working cross-functionally with several departments at OpenSesame. No day is the same. My projects are always shifting to meet our goals with a primary objective of curating and managing a portfolio of elearning courses and publishers across the globe focused on building diverse and inclusive workforces.

Learn more about Liza

Kat Banjo-Akinson

Kat Bajno-Atkinson (she/her)

Software Engineer –
Portland, Oregon

What has been the best part of working in your role?
Working with my team is the best part of my job. We work closely and spend most of our days pair programming, whiteboarding, or tackling an issue together. I love the variety of problems I get to solve. I might be working on an emergency issue one day and re-architecting our course zip extractor the next day. Later, I could be in discussions about how to get our new identity management system implemented.

Learn more about KAT

Lexx Fluder

Lexx Fluder

Manager of Product Support
Portland, Oregon

How has OpenSesame changed since you’ve joined?
I started when we were in the old building with very small teams. We’ve grown so much in both size and process. We are much more strategic than we were when we first started. We’ve also expanded our customer support hours to match our global client needs.

Learn more about Lexx

Elias Jackson

Elias Jackson (he/him)

Associate Software Engineer Portland, Oregon

In what ways have you been supported by the OpenSesame team or culture?
Each employee has weekly one-on-one meetings with our managers to discuss how things are going, check in on our promotions, and voice any concerns. I’ve never felt afraid to speak my mind to my manager or the whole team about anything I think is important. My voice is always heard.

Learn more about Elias

Danielle Rubio

Danielle Rubio

Manager, Product Operations Portland, Oregon

How has life changed for your role since the pandemic?
OpenSesame decided early on to do whatever we could to allow the public to access content around “COVID Preparedness” and “Wellness” — for free. That was huge. Things don’t usually change that rapidly. Not in eLearning. We were dealing with shifting priorities and trying to do the right thing for our community and the world.

Learn more about Danielle

Dave McFarland

Dave McFarland (he/him)

Senior Manager of Content
Portland, Oregon

How did you get into the field you’re in?
I’ve been an instructor and trainer of adult learners for — well, let’s just say a long time. I was initially a web developer and designer as a magazine art director. I was interested in teaching people new skills. That led to teaching adult learners at universities, corporations, and continuing education programs. From there, I got into online video instruction, teaching computer programming and managed an educational programming and video team. At OpenSesame, we review lots of visual footage; I bring a design eye to producing courses.

Learn more about Dave

Life at OpenSesame

Our benefits say so much about our culture.
In this era of a distanced workforce, we’ve doubled-down on care and inclusion. Whether you’re in our Portland, Oregon, HQ or working remotely, it’s our goal to make everyone feel at home and cared for.

These are a few of our favorite things. But there’s so much more.

Healthcare

Good healthcare is good employee care.
We offer great health insurance.

Flexible PTO

Our PTO plan is designed to maximize
employee choice and freedom.

401K

Our 100% (up to 4%) employer matching program includes personal financial advisors to maximize your long-term investment goals.

VTO

Every human has one day of Volunteer Time Off to give back to our community.

Social & Wellness

We like to be together — even if we’re apart. Meditation, yoga breaks, parties, and catered lunches are currently virtual-strong.

Inclusion & Belonging

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) help build and strengthen our sense of community at OpenSesame.

Professional Development

Learning is what we do and we encourage our employees to utilize our generous paid Professional Development Program and reimbursement.

Pets Mean More Here

Our love for pets is strong – cats, dogs or lizards – we love seeing daily pics of them all on our dedicated Slack channel. Portland HQ is a dog friendly office.

FMLA

Family & Medical Leave

Our benefits include six weeks of paid family and medical leave to employees for the same qualifications defined by FMLA.

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Elias OpenSesame Employee

“It helps to have a leadership team that truly cares and who built the company from the ground up with inclusion in mind.”

Elias Jackson

Associate Software Engineer

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Online Learning is happening now.
We are growing.

In a moment of an increasingly virtual workforce, we’ve added even more Global 2000 brands, and we’re just getting started. With over 22,000 OpenSesame catalog courses, our eLearning platform touches all industries in all markets. Recently, we partnered with TED@Work and Harvard ManageMentor to further grow our eLearning platform.

OpenSesame is defining a new era of engaging a people-first talent force.

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