Private Label Staff Hiring for STEM Instructional Design Leader (Remote!) at San Antonio, TX Full Time

The Science, Tech and Engineering Program Lead at Wisewire will provide ongoing planning, design, implementation, development, direction, review and evaluation of our clients’ learning programs including student experience, curriculum, assessment, instruction, and learning design.

This role provides guidance and strategic oversight of team effectiveness and client relations. This position is critical for company-wide success by:

directing learning product solutions that fully meet learner outcome and design requirements

growing Wisewire’s internal capabilities by sharing innovative examples and inspiring your team(s)

evolving learning products by employing new technologies to create high-quality learner experiences that promote learning that lasts, and

providing learning product market intelligence and recommendations for continual improvement and success.

Responsibilities and Expectations

Guide, inspire and grow the teams and individuals who design, develop, and implement creative and forward thinking learning solutions,

Ensure the programs are built based on learning science, follow best practices, and control quality at scale across all aspects of pedagogy and design.

Expertly apply learner-centered design approaches to frame problems and explore solutions that clearly define a vision of what the product or program learning experience is, what it does, and how it looks and works from the student’s perspective.

Own the integrity of the end-to-end learning experience and high standards of quality for design by leading quality reviews across our production portfolio, facilitating lessons-learned discussions after completion of projects, coaching, and helping the team integrate changes as needed.

Establish roles, responsibilities, and expectations for the Curriculum and Learning Engineer Design team, stakeholders and SMEs in initiatives. Ensure continuous communication with stakeholders throughout the educational development process.

Identify new business opportunities with existing and potential customers by building relationships and solutioning for customers needs.

Manage client and ID/Faculty relationships including tools, training and best practices.

Education and Experience:
Master’s degree or experience equivalent education, instructional design, education leadership, or related field

4+ years of experience directly related to instructional design; competency-based program design; complex, multi-media-rich e-learning experience design; hands-on digital and experience design and instructional technology and learning management systems

2+ years of experience in a leadership role directly overseeing, building, developing, coaching and mentoring a team of instructional design and course development professionals

2+ years of experience in a leadership role managing learning design, production and delivery, including: program level curriculum development; Instructional design; Content development and curation; and instructional technology to support personalized learning experience

Experience with full-scale competency-based design and production, including: competency-based scaffolding and standards mapping; and targeted assessment design

Deep understanding of current and emerging experience design principles, and human-centered design methodologies. Demonstrated application of the knowledge, skills and abilities of experience design practitioners.

Experience building a culture of collaboration, innovation, and execution. Be an agent of change in a rapidly changing environment.

Demonstrated capability to build trust and establish credibility with faculty, peers, direct reports and senior leaders.

What Will Put You Ahead?

Experience designing for computer science and/or highly technical programs

Advanced analytical and problem solving skills

Ability to apply concepts to drive market-leading innovation in education technology

Problem-solving, diplomacy and strong writing/presentation skills