Senior Instructional Designer

Senior Instructional Designer

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• Exempt

McGraw Hill LLC.

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Overview

Build the Future At McGraw Hill, we create best-in-class, next-generation learning experiences that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools that maximize teachers’ time and students’ learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue on our own paths of lifelong learning.

How can you make an impact?

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for a Senior Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA (Project Status) for our K-12 division literacy programs.

As a Senior Instructional Designer for Grades 6–12 ELA, you will be a pivotal contributor in designing high-quality digital learning experiences used by millions of students and educators. Working within a collaborative and cross-functional team of content experts, product managers, UX designers, and creative technologists, you will lead and support the creation of engaging, standards-aligned, and accessible literacy products for middle and high school learners. Your expertise will help shape robust curriculum and digital tools that drive learning, equity, and innovation. You will balance hands-on design work with process improvement, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration across the product development lifecycle.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status role with a fixed term through August 2027.

What You'll Do

• 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 subject matter experts (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.

What You Bring:

• 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 a related field.

• Experience designing for digital platforms and creating learning experiences with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.

• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., 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.

• Preferred Experience

• Deep understanding of curriculum development for grades 6–12, especially within the ELA discipline; classroom teaching experience is a strong plus.

• Experience working with or managing freelancers and vendors.

• Familiarity with K–12 educational publishing, edtech platforms, and/or literacy curriculum design.

• Engagement in professional learning networks or thought leadership communities.

• Why work for us?

• The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively building experiences that will help shape the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

• The pay range for this position is between $60,000 - $73,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

• McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

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• There are many things that make the company culture unique at McGraw Hill. The team environment is very warm, inviting, supportive, and respectful. Everyone is very passionate about education and making an impact. There's a collective mindset of innovation and desire to meet the needs of the students and teachers that use our products. Teamwork and collaboration are at the core of everything we do. If you need support, someone is always willing to help you. As an employee, I've never felt more valued professionally. Everyone is supportive. We are valued as professionals, trusted to get our work done, have healthy, constructive conversations about how to make better what we are creating, and our time is valued. Work-life balance is treated as a priority instead of a privilege. Not to mention that the benefits speak volumes about our culture. Imagine working for a company that gives you a day to volunteer and give back to your community. Along with caring about the work that we do, McGraw Hill cares about us as individuals, about our families, and our community. I think it is also noteworthy to share that our leadership is fantastic. They have a clear vision and provide direction and support to help us achieve our goals. They're also invested in helping us grow in our career. Not how they envision it, but how we envision it. If you want to move into a people leader role, your manager will support and help you work towards that goal. If you want to stay in an individual contributor role, they will support you and help you work toward moving your career forward through that pathway.

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