Strategic Instructional Designer for AI Accounting Academy

getbasis.ai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Unlimited PTO

In-Office meals

401(k) retirement plan

Team activities

Parental Leave

Job summary

Basis Academy is seeking an Instructional Designer to own the Academy as a product, delivering best-in-class digital learning experiences and scalable on-demand courses across Tax, Audit, and Advisory. You will design credential ladders and drive CPE accreditation, aligning learning data with product adoption and business outcomes.

In-office NYC, 4+ years in SaaS/AI education. The role emphasizes content operations, live workshops, and building a lean team to scale a high-impact learning

Qualifications

• 4+ years building or scaling a customer education or technical enablement program at a modern SaaS or AI company.
• Experience running content operations: produce high-quality content efficiently and keep it current in a fast-moving product environment.
• Proven ability to evolve a program from live-training-only to a hybrid model of self-paced digital learning and live workshops.

Responsibilities

• Own the Academy as a product: strategy, roadmap, content operations, and outcomes.
• Build best-in-class digital learning experiences: role-based paths tailored to Preparers, Reviewers, and Managers across CAS, Tax, Audit, and Advisory.
• Design the "Basis Certified" credential ladder: define what it means to be an expert in AI Accounting and build a certification that matters.
• Build for scale: translate our high-touch, white-glove training into scalable, on-demand courses and interactive simulations.
• Drive CPE accreditation: work toward making Basis courses eligible for Continuing Professional Education credits, a major differentiator for firm partners.
• Build the content operations machine: produce high-quality learning content efficiently and keep it current with every product release.
• Hire and lead a lean, high-output team (instructional designers, content producers, live session facilitators).
• Instrument the program end-to-end: connect learning data to product adoption, retention, and business outcomes.

Skills

Educational program mgmt

Content operations

Program evolution

Tools

WorkRamp

Thought Industries

Job description

Basis Academy is seeking an Instructional Designer to own the Academy as a product, delivering best-in-class digital learning experiences and scalable on-demand courses across Tax, Audit, and Advisory. You will design credential ladders and drive CPE accreditation, aligning learning data with product adoption and business outcomes.

In-office NYC, 4+ years in SaaS/AI education. The role emphasizes content operations, live workshops, and building a lean team to scale a high-impact learning