Instructional Designer

Egreenservices; Asheville (NC); On-site; USD 57,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Media Excellence Group in Asheville, NC seeks an instructional designer to own hands-on creative work, mentor teammates, and help scale a design system. The role emphasizes Blender-driven production, rapid prototyping, and leadership across creative cycles.

Pay starts at $57,000 and goes up to $85,000 with strong benefits and room for growth toward leadership. This is a hands-on, mid-level opening with mentorship opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Blender experience or equivalents in a creative design context.
• Strong analytical thinking with a design-forward mindset.
• Hands-on Miro experience, even in whiteboard interview settings.
• Patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard.

Responsibilities

• Engineer a template system flexible enough to survive Media Excellence Group's rebrand.
• Test and optimize creative variations through A/B experiments.
• Distill a hour-long strategy deck into one image that survives the hallway test.
• Spin one campaign idea into thirty platform-native cuts before lunch.
• Anchor a chaotic creative launch around one image that means something.
• Partner with copywriters to align visuals with messaging and tone.
• Contribute to and help evolve Media Excellence Group's design system and component library.
• Pitch the uncomfortable direction when the safe one has clearly run dry.

Skills

Blender

Analytical Thinking

Miro

Mentoring

Iconography

Heuristic Evaluation

Tools

Blender

Miro

Job description

A logo, a launch, a look that outlives the campaign: that's the legacy Media Excellence Group is asking its next Instructional Designer to chase in Asheville, NC. This mid-level opening gives you $57,000 - $85,000, hands-on ownership, and the mentorship to keep growing in creative.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer a template system flexible enough to survive Media Excellence Group's rebrand
• Test and optimize creative variations through A/B experiments
• Distill a hour-long strategy deck into one image that survives the hallway test
• Spin one campaign idea into thirty platform-native cuts before lunch
• Anchor a chaotic creative launch around one image that means something
• Partner with copywriters to align visuals with messaging and tone
• Contribute to and help evolve Media Excellence Group's design system and component library
• Pitch the uncomfortable direction when the safe one has clearly run dry

What You'll Bring

• An eye for the delightfully-weird detail that separates fine from finished
• Hands-on command of Blender, with Analytical Thinking as a close second
• Hands-on Miro experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• 4+ years of Blender reps, not just Blender exposure
• Resilience measured across 5 years of creative cycles
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• Iconography fundamentals plus the Heuristic Evaluation polish clients notice

Media Excellence Group is a proudly-imperfect, customer-obsessed creative company proudly built in Asheville, NC. We keep the Asheville, NC office quiet on Wednesdays so deep Service Design work actually gets a fighting chance.

Pay starts strong at $57,000 - $85,000, mentorship runs deep, and the road from mid-level to lead is paved with real benefits.

Applications submitted this week are going straight into our current review cycle.

Whether Blender or Leadership is your strong suit, this Instructional Designer seat has room for both.