Instructional Design Manager

Slater Infrastructure Group; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Slater Infrastructure Group is seeking an Instructional Design Manager for a 100% remote contract role with potential to convert to permanent. The position offers a target start date before the end of October 2026 and a compensation range of $75,000–$95,000.

The role focuses on designing and delivering courses for our AI-powered workforce development platform in the water and wastewater sector, with a hands-on, craft-oriented approach and room to grow into a full-time position.

Qualifications

• Contract role with potential to convert to permanent.
• Remote work arrangement – 100% remote.
• Target start date: before end of October 2026.

Responsibilities

• Has designed and shipped at least one full course end to end, including structure, content, assessments and supporting media.
• Has built content for more than one learning style on the same material.
• Documented, repeatable development process covering scoping, SME input, review and sign-off.
• Took at least one course from a written requirement to a finished product without rewriting the requirement first.

Job description

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Job title - Instructional Design Manager

Employment type - Contract, with potential to convert to perm

Work location - 100% remote

Bill rate range - To be confirmed

Expected hours - 40 hours per week

Extension likely - Month to month

Conversion to perm - Possible by mutual agreement, at $75,000 - $95,000

Openings - 1

Target start date - Before the end of October 2026

About Slater Certified®

Slater Certified® is an AI-powered workforce development platform for the water and wastewater sector. It delivers self-paced training that prepares professionals for licensure and continuing education, built around G.A.I.L. (Generative Artificial Intelligence Learning) - an interactive tutor that gives real-time feedback, personalized explanations and adaptive support, so someone studying on demand still gets guidance. The flagship course is a 40-hour Wastewater Class 3 Operator Training recognized by the Georgia Secretary of State, alongside a 24-hour continuing education course and an industrial wastewater program. Organizations can run a customized version, Powered by Slater Certified®, against their own workforce.

Slater Certified, LLC is the workforce development arm of Slater Infrastructure Group, LLC - an Alpharetta, Georgia infrastructure services firm founded in 1997, working across operations and maintenance, construction engineering and inspection, and environmental services for public and private clients. Slater Certified launched in July 2025 and is licensed in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.

The team is small and moves fast. Technology choices are modern and made by the people who have to live with them, so the distance between an idea and a decision is short, and the distance between a decision and shipping it is shorter. Work is remote and the schedule is flexible. Ownership sits with the person doing the work, and there is real room to shape how things get built rather than inheriting someone else's process.

Position summary

Slater Certified® is an AI-powered workforce development platform for the water and wastewater sector. We have a live catalog of courses, a generative AI tutor sitting alongside them, and considerably more content to build than we currently have the capacity to build well.

We are hiring an Instructional Design Manager to own how our content gets made. This is a craft role first: taking raw material - a technical manual, a regulation, an hour with a subject matter expert - and turning it into a course that a working adult will actually finish. It is also a build-from-requirements role: given what a course needs to cover, you scope it, design it, and produce it.

It starts as a contract role and it starts hands-on, with no one reporting to you. As the content function grows, this is the role the other learning content creators report into. If it works on both sides there is a path to converting it to a full-time position.

What this role owns in the first six months

Has designed and shipped at least one full course end to end - structure, content, assessments and supporting media.

Has built content for more than one learning style on the same material, rather than producing one format and calling it a course.

Has a documented, repeatable development process that someone else could follow, covering scoping, SME input, review and sign-off - the thing a growing content team will run on.

Has taken at least one course from a written requirement to a finished product without needing the requirement rewritten first.

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