Manager, Instructional Design

Project Management Institute

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About The Position

This role leads the way learning experiences are designed across the portfolio, ensuring they are effective, consistent, and aligned with real-world professional outcomes. It involves connecting learning strategy to product execution, defining how complex topics are translated into engaging, practical learning experiences, and guiding a team of instructional designers to deliver high-quality work at scale. The position sets the direction for course and learning product design, partners with product and content teams, and contributes to complex projects to ensure sound design decisions. It also plays a key role in evolving the approach by introducing new methods, tools, and technologies to improve learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Instructional Design, Learning & Development, Educational Technology, Curriculum Development, or related field.
• Extensive progressive experience in instructional design, with demonstrated mastery and a record of owning design strategy at a program or organizational level.
• Prior experience in a functional lead, senior IC, or people management role, with demonstrated ability to set direction and elevate the work of others.
• Experience working cross-functionally at a senior level, with product, content, and business stakeholders.
• Expert-level mastery of instructional design principles, adult learning theory, assessment design, and curriculum architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to own and drive functional strategy, with final decision-making authority over design standards and quality.
• Strong strategic thinking skills; ability to connect instructional design decisions directly to product outcomes and organizational priorities.
• Ability to think systemically across a portfolio of products, audiences, and ID team capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence, align, and elevate the work of others — both through direct authority and cross-functional collaboration.
• Exceptional coaching and team development skills; ability to build ID capability across all levels.
• Deep experience with learning measurement and analytics; ability to use data to drive strategic decisions and demonstrate ROI.
• Compelling communicator; able to present learning strategy and design rationale to executive and cross-functional audiences.
• Strong business acumen; comfortable operating at a high level of cross-functional scope and influence.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or other equivalent experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of learning experiences across the portfolio.
• Ensure learning experiences are effective, consistent, and aligned with professional outcomes.
• Connect learning strategy to product execution.
• Define how complex topics are translated into engaging, practical learning experiences.
• Guide a team of instructional designers to deliver high-quality work at scale.
• Set the day-to-day direction for course and learning product design.
• Partner closely with product and content teams.
• Step in on complex or high-impact projects to ensure the right design decisions are made.
• Evolve the approach by bringing in new methods, tools, and technologies that improve how people learn.
• Build and govern organizational ID frameworks, standards, and quality systems at scale.
• Manage ambiguity, delegate effectively, and make sound strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead organizational adoption of emerging learning technologies and instructional approaches.

Benefits

• An excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location.
• Skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future.
• Access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience.
• Flexible options to help balance work time and your time.
• Award and bonus opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager