Lead Instructional Designer

Position - Lead Instructional Designer

Full time opportunity

Immediate joiners preferred.

Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and independent Lead Instructional Designer (Freelance) to spearhead the content development for a key client's online program. This role is a critical leadership position, demanding a proactive individual who can quickly assimilate detailed project requirements and manage the quality and timely delivery of all course materials. The Lead ID will coordinate a multidisciplinary team (SMEs, media designers, graphic designers, course builders, and copyeditors) while working directly with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to design innovative, engaging, and high-quality online courses with an AI-first approach.

Key Responsibilities:

• Content Design & Development: Directly partner with SMEs to design and build comprehensive online course content, ensuring alignment with learning objectives and client specifications.
• Team & Workflow Coordination: Serve as the content lead, coordinating the work of SMEs, media/graphic designers, course builders, and copyeditors to maintain content quality and project velocity.
• Deliverable Creation: Own the creation of all key instructional deliverables, including:
• Developing detailed briefs and module manifests.
• Defining and creating both summative and formative assessments and knowledge checks.
• Scripting and storyboarding videos and custom infographics.
• Designing and creating artifacts for live lessons.
• Ideating AI chatbot interactions and training AI chatbots
• Working closely with SMEs to record instructional Loom videos.
• Develop Scripts for demo and topic videos
• Platform & Tool Proficiency: Build course content directly in Articulate Rise (experience is a plus).
• AI Integration & Strategy: Apply an AI-first mentality, leveraging generative AI extensively for ideation, developing course plans, creating detailed briefs, and drafting scripts and storyboards.
• Project Management & Quality Control: Act as the final gatekeeper for quality, ensuring all content is accurate, consistent, and delivered on time, meeting the project's demanding schedule and quality standards.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 510 years of experience in instructional design within higher education, workforce development, or corporate L&D settings.
• Skills: Demonstrated experience in designing and creating online courses, including expertise in scripting and storyboarding videos.
• Availability: Availability of 40 hours per week
• Meetings: Must be available to attend weekly meetings, status meetings during regular business hours, despite the flexibility of other working hours.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Instructional Design, Educational Technology, English, Writing, Humanities, Education, Communication, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Tool Experience: Direct experience building courses in Articulate Rise.
• AI Proficiency: Proven experience and comfort using generative AI tools, such as Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT, for ideation, content development, briefing, and scripting/storyboarding.
• Productivity Tools: Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Google Workspace tools (Google Docs and Sheets).