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McGraw Hill · 12 hours ago

Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA

McGraw Hill is a leading provider of digital and print educational resources, and they are seeking a Senior Instructional Designer for their K-12 division literacy programs. In this role, you will collaborate with teams to create digital curriculum assets and learning solutions, ensuring high-quality content for educators and students.

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Responsibilities

Contribute to specific early product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team
Contribute to the Implementation Model, Journey Maps, and course maps. Contribute heavily in regards to the creation of POC’s and prototypes
Through a UBD process, you will design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs
Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets
Provide heavy contributions with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team
Strong contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team
Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers
Be experts in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process
Strong contributions to the product build process
Manage AD vendors and freelancers writing guidelines, answering questions, scheduling and leading weekly vendor status meetings
Lead approved workflows at all stages and meet all intermediate and final schedules
Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and on completed on time
Lead during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines
Identify and suggest digital solutions for issues that arise during development
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform. When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements
Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing
QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines

Qualification

Digital content developmentInstructional DesignProject managementAuthoring toolsLearning management systemsContent management systemsK-5 teaching experienceAnimated content creationSpanish language fluencyCommunication skills

Required

4+ years experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required
Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets
Strong ability to communicate
Some experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems
Some ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content

Preferred

Spanish language fluency desired
A successful candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience

Benefits

A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.

Company

McGraw Hill

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We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world.

H1B Sponsorship

McGraw Hill has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (27)
2024 (13)
2023 (23)
2022 (37)
2021 (27)
2020 (28)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
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2025-07-24IPO
2021-09-30Private Equity
2021-06-15Acquired

Leadership Team

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Lloyd G. Waterhouse
CEO & President
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Simon Allen
President & CEO
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