Senior Custom Instructional Designer

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

📋 Description

• Act as the primary instructional designer for designated internal FranklinCovey initiatives.

• Develop and tailor learning experiences, content, and tools for FranklinCovey products, internal processes, toolkits, enablement materials, and internal training programs.

• Function as an instructional designer for specific custom client projects.

• Collaborate with Solution Consultants and clients to modify FranklinCovey content to suit particular client environments.

• Adapt courses, modules, tools, and reinforcement assets to fit client industry, culture, language, and use cases while maintaining FranklinCovey's intellectual property and standards.

• Utilize adult learning principles, learning science, and experience design frameworks to foster behavior change and enhance performance outcomes.

• Develop design documents, outlines, storyboards, and wireframes.

• Incorporate practice, reflection, managerial involvement, assessments, and on-the-job experimentation into the design.

• Collect feedback from pilots, account teams, delivery consultants, internal stakeholders, and client engagements to improve designs.

• Keep documentation and version control for reuse, scaling, and productization purposes.

• Prioritize and organize projects, estimate effort, and oversee timelines in collaboration with the Custom Operations Manager.

• Facilitate working sessions, design reviews, and feedback processes.

• Convey design rationale, options, and trade-offs to non-design stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Content, Delivery, Practices, Marketing, Product, and other internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements, scope, timelines, and success criteria.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design.

• Over 7 years of experience in instructional design or learning experience design.

• Experience, preferably in a corporate, consulting, or professional services setting.

• Proven track record in leading projects that involve both the creation of new designs and the customization of existing content.

• Capability to design across ILT, VILT, digital, blended, and microlearning formats.

• Strong understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies, including ADDIE, SAM, and design thinking.

• Exceptional written and visual communication abilities.

• Strong skills in project and time management.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

• Comfort in collaborating with diverse, cross-functional teams and integrating feedback into an iterative design process.

• Proficiency in learning authoring and design tools.

• Experience in leadership development, productivity, trust, execution, or culture-change content areas.

• Familiarity with FranklinCovey frameworks, models, and brand voice.

• Experience in partnering with facilitators/delivery consultants and product/content teams.

• Proficiency with project management tools such as Asana and Smartsheet.

• Ability to work remotely from anywhere within the contiguous United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Health Savings Account (HSA).

• Employee stock purchase program.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.