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Lead Instructional Designer

McGraw Hill

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ID: 6381

Posted On 12/19/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Impact the Moment:

McGraw Hill is a diverse and inclusive company that believes we can change the world by leveling the playing field and giving every learner an equal opportunity to succeed. We create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning experiences, and to continually reimagine the way our customers teach and learn, simplifying the path to a better education for all.

How can you make an impact?

We are seeking a **Lead Instructional Designer** with expertise in shaping innovative, accessible, and pedagogically sound digital learning experiences at scale. This role collaborates closely with content engineering leadership, authoring leads, and cross functional partners to guide instructional vision, develop exemplars, and train authors and vendors. The Lead Instructional Designer ensures effective use of McGraw Hill’s digital tools, supports scalable authoring practices, and helps advance high quality, research informed instructional design across products.

This position plays a key role in aligning instructional vision, digital tooling, and cross functional collaboration to ensure scalable, accessible, and high quality learning experiences across products, authors, and platforms.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What you will be doing:

+ Partner with program authors, Academic Designers, and subject matter experts to define program specific digital learning experiences that meet academic standards and accessibility requirements, and lead the creation of POCs, sample lessons, and exemplars.

+ Lead and deliver training for digital authors and vendors on McGraw Hill authoring tools, including Habitat, Bento, and Scribe, ensuring learning experiences reflect sound instructional design principles.

+ Collaborate with TPMs and the Manager of Content Architecture to develop tool documentation, best practice guidelines, and test plans, and lead cross functional teams through quality assurance, ACR compliance, business acceptance testing, and learning research.

+ Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies in digital education and instructional design, and guide the ID team in applying relevant advancements to improve products and maintain market competitiveness.

+ Support Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support by providing instructional design expertise, creating digital POCs and product samplers, and helping communicate McGraw Hill’s digital ID strategy at events and customer engagements.

What you can bring to this role:

+ 7+ years of applicable experience, or 5+ years of applicable experience with managerial experience preferred, in instructional, interactive, or UX design, ideally within an educational context.

+ Professional proficiency in instructional, interactive, or UX design at the bachelor’s level or higher, with deep knowledge of multimedia learning theory, cognitive research, and digital learning best practices.

+ 5+ years of experience in instructional and or interactive design, including a 3+ years training teams or vendors to use digital authoring tools to create educational or informational content.

+ Demonstrated experience authoring accessible digital content and prototyping multimedia learning experiences using industry standard tools such as Captivate and Articulate Storyline, with a working understanding of HTML and CSS.

+ Experience using industry standard large language models to design prompts, evaluate outputs, and identify bias, along with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and related productivity software.

Why work for us?

The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfillment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

The pay range for this position is between $80,000 - $122,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

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Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

6381

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20251219

End Date

20260119

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About the Company

At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.

Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.

By partnering with educators around the globe, our learning engineers, content developers and pedagogical experts are developing increasingly open learning ecosystems that are proven to improve pass rates, elevate grades and increase engagement for each individual learner while improving outcomes for all.

Why? Because learning changes everything.

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