[Hiring] Instructional Designer @McGraw Hill LLC.

Role Description

As an Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA, you will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, and creative media. You will create robust digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day. You are a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for the Literacy programs.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 08/31/2027.

• Contribute to specific product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team.
• Utilize a UBD process to design, storyboard, and build digital courses and lessons that enhance content provided by subject matter experts.
• Apply design principles, backwards design, and design thinking concepts in novel situations.
• Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscripts, create storyboards, support build rounds for digital assets.
• Provide informal product and workflow training to associate instructional designers.
• Create novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); experiment with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.
• Be an expert in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
• Work within an Agile framework, leveraging iterative workflows and collaborative practices to drive effective project execution and continuous improvement.
• Support vendors and freelancers by providing guidelines and answering questions to maintain workflow efficiency.
• 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 completed on time.
• 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.
• Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and applying errata edits.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation in instructional design practices and ensure the delivery of cutting-edge curriculum solutions.

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 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 working on multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices, including collaboration in iterative workflows.
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate.
• Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
• Ability to visualize and create animated and interactive content.
• A successful candidate may have previous 6-12 teaching experience.

Benefits

• Empowered to make a real impact on a global scale.
• The pay range for this position is between $50,000 - $65,000 annually, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.