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Senior Instructional Designer

McGraw Hill

1 Positions

ID: 5728

Posted On 06/30/2025

Job Overview

Overview

Make an Impact!

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher’s time and a student’s learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life.

How can you make an impact?   

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a Senior Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA. 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 Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 09/30/2026.

What you will be doing: 

  • Design and storyboard digital-first 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, user testing, 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 user testing studies by interpreting results and making strategic recommendations.
  • Support digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing. 
  • Troubleshoot complex technical and instructional challenges through root cause analysis.

What you need to be considered:  

  • 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.
  • 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.

Here’s what we offer:  

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions. 

The pay range for this position is between $62,000 - $80,000 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 benefits offerings.  

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Job Details

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Publishing/Printing

Location

Remote, Remote

Job Type

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Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

695

Job REQ #

5728

# Positions

1

Start Date

20250630

End Date

20250713

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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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