Director of Instructional Design

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance and training for customers on integrating Curie with their faculty through onboarding sessions, workshops, and direct support.

• Articulate instructional design principles and best practices to customers, faculty, and academic leadership.

• Develop and update training materials, job aids, and implementation guides for Curie.

• Oversee and manage a distributed team of instructional designers, which includes both employees and contractors.

• Define project scope, allocate instructional design tasks, recruit and onboard designers and contractors, give feedback, and assess quality.

• Set and uphold instructional design standards for work related to Alchemy and Curie.

• Ensure course designs adhere to accessibility and quality standards, including WCAG and Quality Matters.

• Act as the instructional design subject-matter expert for Product Development, providing advice on features and the product roadmap.

• Test and ensure quality for new Curie features and releases.

• Relay customer feedback and insights from the field to the product team.

• Define the instructional design components of RFPs and proposals using the Alchemy product catalog.

• Collaborate with the Director of Project Management to execute projects within defined scope, budget, and timeline.

• Create repeatable and scalable methods for large or multi-course projects.

• Coordinate efforts with external vendors and partners.

• Take on project leadership roles as the instructional designer when necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master's degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Education, or a related discipline (bachelor's degree with equivalent experience may be considered).

• Over 5 years of instructional design experience in higher education, encompassing online and hybrid course development.

• More than 2 years of experience leading or managing instructional designers, including remote team members or contractors.

• Strong understanding of instructional design models and learning science principles, such as ADDIE, backward design, and UDL.

• Proven experience in training or consulting with faculty and academic stakeholders.

• Experience in defining instructional design work for proposals, statements of work, or project estimates.

• Working knowledge of various LMS platforms, including Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, or Moodle.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of engaging both technical and academic audiences.

• Comfortable testing software and providing structured, actionable feedback to product teams.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2) and accessibility testing practices.

• Experience utilizing AI tools and design as well as interactive creation tools like the Articulate Suite and H5P.

• A bachelor's degree with equivalent experience may be considered as an alternative to a master's degree.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO

• Sick PTO

• Holiday PTO

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401k