Instructional Designer ELA/SLA

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

1d•Remote

About The Position

McGraw Hill, a leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is seeking an Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA. This role involves creating robust digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions for millions of educators and students. The Instructional Designer will be a digital-savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for Literacy programs. This is a remote Project Status Worker (PSW) position with an end date of 4/30/2027, open to applicants authorized to work in the US. The role is part of a collaborative team working on early product development, contributing to implementation models, journey maps, and course maps, with a focus on creating Proofs of Concept (POCs) and prototypes. The position requires designing, storyboarding, and developing digital curriculum assets like videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games, and virtual labs through a UBD process. Collaboration extends to concept meetings, manuscript reviews, storyboarding, alpha/beta builds, user testing, and providing informal training to associate instructional designers. Expertise in accessibility and contributions to the product build process are essential. The role also involves managing AD vendors and freelancers, leading workflows, meeting schedules, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure product requirements, schedules, and goals are met. This includes leading digital launches, identifying digital solutions, troubleshooting technical bugs, and defining requirements for platform enhancements. Tasks also include digital product work such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing, as well as QAing vendor work.

Requirements

1 - 3 years’ experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required.
Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
Strong ability to communicate.
Some experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
Some ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content.
Fluent in English and Spanish, with strong verbal and written communication skills; able to make informed translation decisions and effectively quality-check Spanish content.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual recommended, Spanish desired.
A success candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to specific early product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team.
Contribute to the Implementation Model, Journey Maps, and course maps.
Contribute heavily in regards to the creation of POC’s and prototypes.
Through a UBD process, design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs.
Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets.
Provide heavy contributions with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
Provide strong contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers.
Be experts in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
Provide strong contributions to the product build process.
Manage AD vendors and freelancers writing guidelines, answering questions, scheduling and leading weekly vendor status meetings.
Lead approved workflows at all stages and meet all intermediate and final schedules.
Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and on completed on time.
Lead during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
Identify and suggest digital solutions for issues that arise during development.
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform.
When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines.