Senior Instructional Designer: Assessments & Certifications

Namely; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 9,400 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

Namely is seeking a Technical Instructional Designer (Assessment Programs) for a hybrid role based in Pune or Hyderabad, India. The role focuses on certification design, item development, and ongoing maintenance across credentialing programs.

You will manage projects from inception to completion, align content with blueprints, and collaborate with stakeholders across time zones to ensure timely delivery and documentation accuracy.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in instructional design with a focus on assessment or credentialing programs
• Familiarity with credentialing best practices, assessment lifecycle management, and psychometric principles
• 3+ years of experience working within an LMS — creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting learning objects, assignments, and related program assets
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities and deadlines independently
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, as collaboration occurs asynchronously across time zones
• Strong process orientation — following SOPs, identifying gaps, building new documentation, driving continuous improvement
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, navigating ambiguity and proposing practical solutions
• Comfort operating in a global environment with privacy and data handling awareness
• Aptitude to quickly learn new system functionality without step-by-step instruction
• Bachelor's degree in HR tech, learning tech, enterprise SaaS, workforce transformation, or talent management

Responsibilities

• Certification design and development, including JTA, MQC profiling, blueprint design, item development, standard setting, and cut score determination
• Review examination items and credential content for clarity, accuracy, cognitive level, alignment to blueprint specs, and bias
• Provide content direction and blueprint alignment for candidate-facing support materials
• Content maintenance for certifications, including updates tied to product releases, item bank revisions, and Salesforce Knowledge articles
• Maintain content accuracy across all certification assets and documentation
• Project and program management of certification development tasks within timelines; escalate blockers as needed
• Own certification projects from inception to completion for senior roles, managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations
• Maintain program documentation: inventories, items, blueprints, MQC profiles, cut scores, logs, and SOPs
• Develop and contribute to validity evidence files and improve documentation practices for scalability
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to align development activities with program strategy and timelines
• Operate with autonomy across time zones, surfacing issues and managing multiple workstreams

Skills

Instructional design

LMS

Communication

Project management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cornerstone LMS

Salesforce Knowledge

AI tools

Job description

Namely is seeking a Technical Instructional Designer (Assessment Programs) for a hybrid role based in Pune or Hyderabad, India. The role focuses on certification design, item development, and ongoing maintenance across credentialing programs.

You will manage projects from inception to completion, align content with blueprints, and collaborate with stakeholders across time zones to ensure timely delivery and documentation accuracy.