Lead Instructional Designer, Dual Literacy (ELA/SLA)

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

7d•Remote

About The Position

McGraw Hill, a leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is seeking a Lead Instructional Designer, Dual Literacy (ELA/SLA) for its K-12 division literacy programs. This is a remote position, or can be based in a McGraw Hill office, and is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 08/31/2027. The role involves planning and developing instructional materials for Dual Literacy programs in both print and digital formats. The Lead Instructional Designer will be a key member of a collaborative team, working closely with content, product management, UX, and creative media teams to create digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions used by millions of educators and students. This role requires a digital-savvy content and curriculum expert responsible for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for Dual Literacy programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required.
Experience working with Spanish-language materials.
4+ years’ experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence trade-off decisions across scope, quality, time, and resources.
Experience designing digital platforms and creating learning experiences with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
Solution-oriented mindset with a focus on practical, effective problem-solving.
Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and their application to instructional design and content development.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as a Spanish, ESL, SLA, or dual-language teacher is a plus.
A successful candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience.

Responsibilities

Collaborate cross-functionally to solve complex problems and design conceptual solutions for multiple components; participate in collaboration workshops, remove barriers across delivery teams, and advise leadership on workflow improvements.
Make strong contributions to the product build process, including QC on both English and Spanish language digital assets; advise leadership of new ways to improve workflows and team capacity.
Create, finalize, and maintain internal documentation for digital workflows, best practices, and instructional guidelines; identify workflow efficiencies.
Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, script go-bys, and digital editing.
Train and mentor instructional designers and new team members by modeling best practices in digital tools, content authoring, and workflows.
Champion accessibility standards with strong contributions, ensuring quality and compliance expectations are met throughout the product development process.
Contribute in cross-functional discussions, program planning, and curriculum mapping within an Agile framework to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and completed on time.
Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor and freelancer teams, providing oversight and training; manage digital launches by developing guidelines, launching work, and ensuring all deliverables expectations are met.
Participate as a key contributor in the development of implementation models and journey maps; lead the development of course maps; create POC’s and hi-fidelity prototypes by applying design principles and backward design to complex or ambiguous situations.
Support user testing by interpreting results and making strategic recommendations, serving under the leadership of management.
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, and follow up on technical issues in authoring tools and the platform; define and document requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
Identify, pilot, and scale novel digital solutions for issues that arise during development.
Proactively identify risks and challenges across multiple workstreams; develop contingency plans and negotiate trade-offs among competing priorities, communicating proposed solutions to leadership.