L&D - Instructional Designer

LPL Financial LLC; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial LLC in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Instructional Designer to shape learning experiences for wealth-management professionals. You will translate complex business needs into scalable, learner-centered solutions across digital, instructor-led, blended, and performance-support formats.

You will partner with business leaders and subject-matter experts to diagnose capability needs and lead end-to-end learning solution workstreams from discovery to continuous improvement, driving

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Education, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in instructional design or related learning role.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional learning initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own complex learning solutions from discovery through design, development, implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Diagnose capability gaps and identify learning or performance interventions.
• Design learner-centered solutions across digital, instructor-led, blended, and performance-support formats.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams with stakeholders across locations and modalities.
• Apply ADDIE, SAM, Agile, and Design Thinking to create measurable outcomes.
• Establish and monitor measures of learning effectiveness and business impact.

Skills

Business consulting

Instructional design

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design/LS/Ed

Tools

Authoring tools

Learning Management Systems

AI-enabled tools

Simulation

Analytics

Virtual training tools

Job description

Where Ambition Meets Innovation At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad. Join us as we create something extraordinary together. Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

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Shape learning experiences that help wealth-management professionals build the capabilities needed to perform at their best. As an Instructional Designer, you will serve as a learning consultant and solution owner, translating complex business needs into practical, scalable, learner-centered solutions across digital, instructor-led, blended, and performance-support formats.

Job Overview

The Learning and Development Instructional Designer serves as a learning consultant and solution owner for complex business capability needs. The role leads the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of high-impact learning solutions that address business performance, workforce readiness, and skill requirements across multiple audiences and modalities. The Instructional Designer partners with business leaders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and learning stakeholders to diagnose capability needs, determine appropriate learning and performance solutions, and translate complex business, process, technology, and organizational changes into scalable learning strategies. The Instructional Designer owns assigned learning solution workstreams from discovery through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement, managing stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs to achieve intended outcomes. The role also contributes to the evolution of learning strategy, standards, technology, and scalable solution models across the Learning and Development organization. This individual contributor role sits within Learning and Development and reports to the ID Manager, Learning and Development.

Responsibilities

• Own complex learning solutions from discovery through design, development, implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment to business objectives, learner needs, and performance outcomes.
• Diagnose business performance and capability needs by consulting with business leaders, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to identify root causes, determine whether learning is the appropriate intervention, and recommend integrated learning or performance solutions.
• Design and develop learner- and customer-centered solutions across digital learning, instructor-led training, virtual instructor-led training, blended learning, performance support, and reinforcement strategies to build capability and sustain behavior change.
• Determine learning architecture, modality, sequencing, practice, reinforcement, and performance-support strategies based on business requirements, audience needs, complexity, and scalability.
• Apply instructional design methodologies, adult learning principles, and data-driven insights to create effective learning experiences and measurable outcomes; select and adapt approaches such as ADDIE, SAM, Agile, and Design Thinking based on context.
• Lead complex, cross-functional learning workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, audiences, locations, modalities, and dependencies; establish priorities, manage risks and tradeoffs, and drive decisions required for successful implementation.
• Translate significant business, technology, process, and organizational changes into learning and capability strategies that support workforce readiness, adoption, and sustained performance.
• Establish and monitor measures of learning effectiveness, workforce readiness, adoption, skill application, and business impact; use qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate outcomes and drive improvements.
• Develop reusable learning frameworks, standards, tools, and solution models that improve consistency, scalability, speed to deployment, and quality across learning programs.
• Partner with learning leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement and to evolve learning practices, standards, and operating models.
• Evaluate and apply emerging learning technologies, AI, simulation, analytics, and digital capabilities to improve personalization, practice, scalability, and learning effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Education, or a related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
• Three or more years of professional experience in instructional design, learning experience design, or a related learning role, preferably within a large, fast-moving, innovative, and data-driven environment.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional learning initiatives or workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.

Core Competencies

• Business consulting and diagnosis: Diagnose business performance and capability gaps, identify root causes, and determine appropriate learning or performance interventions.
• Instructional design expertise: Apply adult learning theory, instructional design principles, and best practices to create effective learner-centered experiences across modalities.
• Solution strategy and architecture: Design learning ecosystems and determine modality, sequencing, reinforcement, and performance-support strategies based on complexity, audience, business need, and scalability.
• Program leadership: Lead complex instructional design initiatives from concept through implementation, managing scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs to achieve intended outcomes.
• Learning technology and innovation: Use authoring, media, learning management, AI, simulation, analytics, and virtual training tools to design scalable, personalized, and effective learning solutions.
• Continuous improvement and scalability: Create reusable frameworks, standards, tools, and solution models that improve consistency, speed, quality, and scale across learning programs.
• Data-informed decision making: Use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate learning effectiveness, workforce readiness, adoption, skill application, and business impact and to guide decisions and improvements.
• Change enablement: Translate business, process, technology, and organizational changes into learning and capability strategies that support workforce readiness, adoption, and sustained performance.
• Stakeholder partnership and influence: Build relationships with business leaders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and learning leaders to drive alignment, influence decisions, and establish shared ownership of outcomes.

Preferences

• Experience leading complex, multi-phase, cross-functional learning initiatives across multiple audiences or business areas.
• Experience with learning technology, simulation, AI-enabled learning tools, learning analytics, or other digital capabilities that improve scalability and effectiveness.
• Experience translating complex business, technology, or organizational changes into learning, capability, or workforce-readiness strategies.
• Experience designing learning solutions within financial services, wealth management, or another highly regulated industry.

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