Remote Senior Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA Curriculum

TrulyHired; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

McGraw Hill is seeking a Senior Instructional Designer for grades 6-12 ELA to design digital learning experiences used by millions of students and educators. You will lead cross-functional teams of content experts, product managers, UX designers, and developers to create accessible, standards-aligned literacy products.

This remote, fixed-term position runs through August 2027 and is open to applicants authorized to work in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years experience in digital instructional design, curriculum development, or eLearning development.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Curriculum & Instruction, or related field.
• Experience designing for digital platforms with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and universal design for learning (UDL).
• Proficiency with Agile workflows, sprint-based iteration, and collaborative team environments.
• Ability to lead cross-functional problem-solving with product, UX, and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Strong ability to organize work across multiple priorities and make data-informed decisions.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of influencing trade-off decisions across scope, quality, time, and resources.

Responsibilities

• Design digital curriculum using Understanding by Design (UbD), backward design, and design thinking principles.
• Develop prototypes, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and digital content tools in collaboration with SMEs and technical support.
• Contribute to and lead build rounds, manuscript reviews, and storyboarding.
• Write and maintain clear and user-centered product requirement documents.
• Apply accessibility best practices and proactively design accessible content and tools.
• Partner with content, UX, technology, engineering, and product teams to design learning experiences that are engaging and instructionally sound.
• Support Agile product development workflows through iterative feedback, sprint planning, and testing.
• Collaborate on tool enhancements and feature development, translating instructional needs into technical requirements.
• Contribute to cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and completed on time.
• Lead workflows across multiple components of the product, ensuring that timelines and quality benchmarks are met.
• Provide informal training and mentorship to Instructional Designers and Associate Instructional Designers, and new team members.
• Act as a point of contact for vendors, providing clear guidance, feedback, and decision-making support.
• Create and maintain documentation for digital workflows, best practices, and instructional guidelines.
• Identify, pilot, and scale novel approaches to digital learning that add measurable value for educators and learners.
• Support digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and instructional challenges through root cause analysis.
• Develop and refine best practices for using digital tools and for creating engaging content within technical constraints.

Skills

Instructional design

Curriculum development

eLearning development

Agile workflows

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Data-informed decisions

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Curriculum & Instruction, or related field

Tools

Authoring tools

Learning Management System (LMS)

Content Management System (CMS)

Job description

McGraw Hill is seeking a Senior Instructional Designer for grades 6-12 ELA to design digital learning experiences used by millions of students and educators. You will lead cross-functional teams of content experts, product managers, UX designers, and developers to create accessible, standards-aligned literacy products.

This remote, fixed-term position runs through August 2027 and is open to applicants authorized to work in the United States.