Instructional Designer

NIIT; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

NIIT is seeking an experienced Instructional Designer to craft high-quality learning experiences for external audiences. You will design end-to-end assets and collaborate with SMEs to convert complex content into engaging formats across digital, blended, and ILT modalities.

AI-enabled tools will accelerate drafts while ensuring quality and alignment with objectives. Collaborating with global stakeholders, you will support localization workflows and maintain a portfolio of externally delivered

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in instructional design, learning design, or learning experience design, ideally supporting external or professional audiences.
• Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end learning assets, from design through development and build.
• Strong understanding of adult learning principles and learning experience design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools to support content development, including drafting designs, scripts, or learning assets, with clear accountability for final outputs.
• Experience working with Subject Matter Experts and incorporating structured feedback into final deliverables.
• Experience supporting localization or translation workflows for learning content (in partnership with vendors or internal teams).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience working in structured, enterprise environments with defined standards, processes, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality, learner-centered learning experiences for external audiences, aligned to defined learning objectives, experience frameworks, and curriculum standards.
• Execute externally focused learning strategy, producing instructional designs, storyboards, scripts, slide decks, facilitator guides, participant materials, and supporting assets.
• Develop digital, blended, and instructor-led learning experiences intended for clients, partners, and ecosystem participants, using established templates, tools, and design standards.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to accelerate the creation of draft learning designs, storyboards, scripts, and content outlines, applying instructional expertise to validate, refine, and finalize outputs.
• Apply sound instructional and learning experience design judgment to ensure AI-assisted outputs meet learning objectives, professional audience expectations.
• Partner with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to help shape complex, technical, or domain-specific content into effective learning experiences for external learners.
• Support ongoing curriculum maintenance, enhancements, and revisions across an existing portfolio of externally delivered learning assets.
• Support the implementation of translations and localization, including preparing content for handoff, addressing design considerations, and validating localized versions against original learning intent.
• Ensure learning experiences meet quality, accessibility, brand, and governance standards.
• Design content for modularity, reuse, and localization, enabling efficient scaling across regions, markets, and external audience segments.
• Collaborate effectively with global stakeholders across time zones, including curriculum architects, project leads, localization partners, and fellow designers and developers.

Skills

Instructional design

Learning experience design

AI-enabled tools

English communication

Collaboration with SMEs

Tools

Articulate Rise

Storyline

Synthesia

Job description

NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world’s leading training companies owing to its vast, yet comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises and Institutions.

Link for our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/niitmts/mycompa

About the Role

• Mode: Contract (1 year)

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high‑quality, learner‑centered learning experiences for external audiences, aligned to defined learning objectives, experience frameworks, and curriculum standards
• Execute externally focused learning strategy, producing instructional designs, storyboards, scripts, slide decks, facilitator guides, participant materials, and supporting assets
• Develop digital, blended, and instructor‑led learning experiences intended for clients, partners, and ecosystem participants, using established templates, tools, and design standards
• Leverage AI‑enabled tools to accelerate the creation of draft learning designs, storyboards, scripts, and content outlines, applying instructional expertise to validate, refine, and finalize outputs
• Apply sound instructional and learning experience design judgment to ensure AI‑assisted outputs meet learning objectives, professional audience expectations
• Partner with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to help shape complex, technical, or domain‑specific content into effective learning experiences for external learners
• Support ongoing curriculum maintenance, enhancements, and revisions across an existing portfolio of externally delivered learning assets
• Support the implementation of translations and localization, including preparing content for handoff, addressing design considerations, and validating localized versions against original learning intent
• Ensure learning experiences meet quality, accessibility, brand, and governance standards
• Design content for modularity, reuse, and localization, enabling efficient scaling across regions, markets, and external audience segments
• Collaborate effectively with global stakeholders across time zones, including curriculum architects, project leads, localization partners, and fellow designers and developers

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in instructional design, learning design, or learning experience design, ideally supporting external or professional audiences
• Demonstrated experience delivering end‑to‑end learning assets, from design through development and build
• Strong understanding of adult learning principles and learning experience design best practices
• Demonstrated ability to use AI‑enabled tools to support content development, including drafting designs, scripts, or learning assets, with clear accountability for final outputs
• Experience working with Subject Matter Experts and incorporating structured feedback into final deliverables
• Experience supporting localization or translation workflows for learning content (in partnership with vendors or internal teams)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Experience working in structured, enterprise environments with defined standards, processes, and governance

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing learning for external, client‑facing, or professional audiences
• Familiarity with common learning authoring tools such as Articulate Rise, Storyline, or similar platforms
• Experience developing video‑based or media‑rich learning experiences
• Experience using AI‑enabled content creation tools (e.g., Synthesia or similar), or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply AI tools to improve efficiency in learning design and development workflows
• Comfort working within a global delivery model with distributed, cross‑functional teams

NIIT is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.