Job Details

Lead Instructional Designer

Position Number: 9969523
Location: Salt Lake City, United States
Position Type: Instructional Technology and Design

Lead Instructional Designer

Job Summary

The ideal candidate combines expertise in adult learning principles, instructional systems design, and learning technologies with strong leadership, consulting, and mentoring skills.

In addition to serving as a lead instructional designer, this role provides coaching, mentoring, and professional development support to other instructional designers, helping establish design standards, improve team capabilities, and promote instructional design best practices. The individual selected for this role will work closely with the Associate Director of Training and Development to manage team workload, project assignments, and resource allocation to ensure timely delivery of learning solutions.

The successful candidate will design and deliver effective learning solutions that improve performance and support business objectives. They will provide guidance and mentorship to instructional designers, helping the team build skills, maintain quality standards, and adopt instructional design best practices. They will also create engaging learning experiences that improve learner satisfaction and knowledge transfer.

This is a full-time hybrid position that requires onsite work three days a week in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Responsibilities
Instructional Design
- Design engaging learning solutions, including e-learning, instructor-led, blended, and performance-based solutions.
- Apply adult learning theories, instructional design models, and learning technologies to create effective training programs.
- Conduct needs assessments and learning analyses to identify performance gaps and training requirements.
- Create learning objectives, curricula, storyboards, assessments, facilitator guides, participant materials, and job aids.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and system end users to translate complex information into effective learning experiences.
- Utilize learning technologies, authoring tools, and multimedia resources to create engaging and accessible content.
- Evaluate learning programs using feedback, assessments, and performance data.

Mentoring and Team Development
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of instructional designers on instructional design methodologies, adult learning principles, and best practices.
- Review team deliverables and provide constructive feedback to ensure quality and consistency.
- Facilitate design reviews, peer learning sessions, and communities of practice.
- Support onboarding and development of new instructional designers.
- Support workload prioritization, resource allocation, and project planning across the instructional design team.
- Identify opportunities to improve team processes, standards, templates, and development practices.

Consulting and Stakeholder Partnership
- Influence stakeholders on effective learning and performance solutions.
- Manage multiple projects and priorities while meeting deadlines and quality expectations.
- Present recommendations, prototypes, and learning solutions to leadership and project teams.
- Act as a trusted advisor on learning strategy and instructional design best practices.

Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Instructional Designer, III: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences
* Master's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Organizational Development, or a related field.
* Experience developing training content for employee training, professional development, higher education, or corporate learning environments.
* Expertise in content research, instructional design, and delivery methods.
* Expertise with eLearning authoring, graphic design, and audiovisual software.

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN46765B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary:
Department: 02520 - Service Delivery & Training
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: $75,000 - $80,000 DOE
Close Date: 11/20/2026
Open Until Filled:

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