Sr. Instructional Designer; Mars Global Services; Hyderabad

Mars; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars Hyderabad seeks a senior instructional design leader to define, govern, and improve learning asset standards across Mars U. You will coach a large community of designers, ensuring assets are accessible, consistent, and ready for deployment.

The role focuses on quality, usability, and scalable design practices across multiple formats. Responsibilities include shaping playbooks, guiding templates, and mentoring teams to raise capability and confidence in asset creation, while balancing

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in instructional design, learning design, education, or a related field.
• Formal training or certification in instructional design, learning experience design, or human-centred design is preferred.
• Experience in corporate, higher-education, or large-scale learning environments.
• Demonstrated leadership of design practice or communities.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve standards, templates, and quality criteria for learning assets across Mars U.
• Define what “good” looks like for learning assets across formats (presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, live session content).
• Ensure consistent application of asset standards aligned to the Learning Experience Playbook and agreed technology choices.
• Provide clear direction on asset structure, level of detail, accessibility, and learner usability.
• Lead, coach, and develop a large community of instructional designers (up to 40) focused on high‑quality learning asset creation.
• Build strong, consistent capability in asset design, development, and documentation across the team.
• Set clear expectations for asset quality, ways of working, and review processes.
• Support onboarding and upskilling of instructional designers in tools, templates, and asset standards.
• Act as a role model for strong, learner‑centred learning asset design.
• Establish and run quality assurance processes for learning assets across Mars U.
• Review learning assets created by others to identify gaps, risks, or quality issues before handover.
• Ensure assets are complete, consistent, accessible, and clearly documented for deployment teams.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to improve asset quality and reduce rework downstream.
• Personally design or build learning assets only in exceptional cases, such as complex programs, flagship initiatives, or to model best practice for the team.

Skills

Instructional design

Learning design

Adult learning

Quality assurance

Leadership

Coaching

Documentation

Feedback

Design authority

Education

Degree in instructional design or related field

Formal ID/LXD training or certification

Job description

Job Description:

What are we looking for?

Education & Professional Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in instructional design, learning design, education, or a related field.
• Formal training or certification in instructional design, learning experience design, or human‑centred design is preferred.
• Experience working in a corporate, higher‑education, or large‑scale learning environment.
• Relevant experience aligned to role level with demonstrated leadership of design practice or communities.

Knowledge / Experience

• Deep expertise in instructional design for learning assets across multiple formats, including presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, and live session content.
• Strong understanding of adult learning principles, accessibility standards, and learner‑centred design as applied specifically to learning assets.
• Proven ability to define, apply, and evolve asset standards, templates, and quality criteria at scale.
• Experience designing assets with deployment, reuse, governance, and maintenance in mind.
• Experience establishing and running quality assurance or review processes for learning assets.
• Ability to identify gaps, risks, and inconsistencies in learning assets and take corrective action through guidance and standards rather than re‑doing the work.
• Strong documentation skills to ensure assets are clearly specified, complete, and ready for handover.
• Experience working in a matrixed environment with Learning Experience Leads, Learning Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts, and deployment teams.
• Ability to balance business needs, timelines, and constraints while maintaining asset quality and design integrity.
• Comfortable operating as a design authority, influencing without owning end‑to‑end delivery.
• Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing instructional designers or design communities, building consistent capability and confidence in asset creation.
• Experience setting clear expectations for quality, ways of working, and review processes across a design team or community.
• Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback that improves quality and reduces rework.
• Experience supporting onboarding and upskilling of designers in tools, templates, and asset standards.
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What will be your key responsibilities?

• Own and evolve standards, templates, and quality criteria for learning assets across Mars U.
• Define what “good” looks like for learning assets across formats (presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, live session content).
• Ensure consistent application of asset standards aligned to the Learning Experience Playbook and agreed technology choices.
• Provide clear direction on asset structure, level of detail, accessibility, and learner usability.
• Lead, coach, and develop a large community of instructional designers (up to 40) focused on high‑quality learning asset creation.
• Build strong, consistent capability in asset design, development, and documentation across the team.
• Set clear expectations for asset quality, ways of working, and review processes.
• Support onboarding and upskilling of instructional designers in tools, templates, and asset standards.
• Act as a role model for strong, learner‑centred learning asset design.
• Establish and run quality assurance processes for learning assets across Mars U.
• Review learning assets created by others to identify gaps, risks, or quality issues before handover.
• Ensure assets are complete, consistent, accessible, and clearly documented for deployment teams.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to improve asset quality and reduce rework downstream.
• Personally design or build learning assets only in exceptional cases, such as complex programs, flagship initiatives, or to model best practice for the team.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.