Senior Instructional Designer

Novac Technology Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Novac Technology Solutions seeks a senior Instructional Design leader to manage the ID function, elevate instructional quality, and build AI-first capabilities across the team. You will mentor ID professionals, set quality standards, and ensure client-aligned, engaging learning solutions across programs.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration, drive capability development, and oversee effective project execution while advancing AI-driven learning initiatives.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of hands-on Instructional Design experience.
• Strong in ID leadership, instructional strategy, quality management and team development.
• Experience with AI tools across the ID lifecycle and responsible adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Instructional Design team with focus on quality and productivity.
• Review ID deliverables across Design, Storyboard, and Output stages for instructional effectiveness.
• Drive ID standards, frameworks, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Ensure projects meet client expectations while maintaining instructional quality.
• Advise clients on instructional design strategies, learning approaches, and content treatment.
• Drive AI-first adoption, identify AI use cases, train the team, and validate outputs.

Skills

Instructional Design

Leadership

AI in ID

Job description

Experience: 12-15+ years of core Instructional Design experience

Role Overview: Manage the Instructional Design function, drive instructional quality and standards, build AI-first ID capabilities within the team, mentor and develop ID talent, and provide senior-level instructional expertise across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Instructional Design team, ensuring quality, consistency, productivity, and effective resource utilization.
• Perform reviews of ID deliverables across Design, Storyboard, and final Output stages, ensuring instructional effectiveness, content accuracy, client alignment, and quality standards.
• Drive instructional design standards, frameworks, review practices, and best practices across the team, while identifying recurring quality gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure projects are delivered within estimated ID efforts, while meeting client expectations and maintaining instructional quality.
• Provide a consultative approach to clients, advising on instructional design strategies, learning approaches, learner engagement, and effective content treatment.
• Drive AI-first adoption within the ID function, identifying relevant AI use cases across the ID lifecycle and training the team on effective AI usage, prompting, tool selection, validation, and human review.
• Leverage AI and automation to improve ID productivity, efficiency, turnaround time, and quality, while ensuring appropriate human oversight.
• Collaborate with Sales, PM, Multimedia, Production, QA, SMEs, and clients to ensure effective project execution and alignment.
• Drive capability development and continuous improvement within the ID function through mentoring, knowledge‑sharing, process improvements, and adoption of emerging learning technologies.

Desired Profile

• 12-15+ years of hands‑on Instructional Design experience, preferably in eLearning/digital learning.
• Strong experience in ID leadership, instructional strategy, quality management, and team development.
• Strong understanding of eLearning, video, simulations, gamification, blended learning, and other digital learning formats.
• Strong AI expertise and practical experience applying AI tools across the instructional design lifecycle.
• Ability to use and train and enable teams on effective and responsible AI adoption.
• Excellent client/stakeholder communication, consultative, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to balance instructional quality, client expectations, timelines, and ID efforts.