Instructional Designer

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

25d•Remote

About The Position

McGraw Hill is seeking an Instructional Designer, K-5 ELA, to create digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions for Literacy programs. The role works with a collaborative group of instructional designers and partners closely with content, product management, UX, and creative media teams. It is a remote Project Status Worker (PSW) position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States, with an end date of 08/31/2027. The Instructional Designer assembles high-quality content to meet product requirements and contributes to product workstreams under the direction of management and senior team members. The role applies instructional design approaches and digital tools to develop curriculum that supports educators and students, and works across the product development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, content development, build, launch, and iterative improvement.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
Experience working on multiple projects with tight deliverables and budgets.
Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices, including collaboration in iterative workflows.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
Ability to visualize and create animated and interactive content.

Nice To Haves

Previous K-5 teaching experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to product workstreams under the direction of management and senior team members.
Contribute to creating proofs of concept and prototypes.
Use a UBD process to design, storyboard, and apply custom digital curriculum tools that enhance content provided by subject matter experts.
Apply design principles, backward design, and design thinking in novel situations.
Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscripts, create storyboards, and support build rounds for digital assets.
Make substantial contributions to digital tools and user testing under the leadership of management and senior team members.
Provide informal product and workflow training to associate instructional designers.
Develop novel solutions with measurable value for internal or external customers by experimenting with new approaches to work problems and opportunities.
Contribute expertise in accessibility throughout the product development process.
Work within an Agile framework using iterative workflows and collaborative practices to support project execution and continuous improvement.
Make substantial contributions to the product build process.
Support vendors and freelancers by providing guidelines and answering questions.
Lead approved workflows through all stages and meet intermediate and final schedules.
Contribute to cross-functional teams to meet product requirements, schedules, and goals on time.
Support digital launches with vendors, including creating templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements in authoring tools and the platform; help define enhancement requirements when necessary.
Complete digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to support innovation in instructional design and curriculum solutions.