Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer

The company Growth Insurance Services | Remote | United States  | Full-Time

Why This Role Matters

Learning only creates value when it changes behavior and improves performance. As an Instructional Designer at the company, you will build performance-based learning experiences that help employees apply critical skills, enable leaders to reinforce those skills, and connect development efforts to measurable business outcomes.

This role partners closely with business leaders, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify performance needs and design scalable learning solutions that drive capability growth across the organization. You will create engaging learning journeys, practical tools, and measurable development experiences that strengthen readiness, adoption, and long-term success.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Diagnose performance needs through stakeholder interviews, learner feedback, field insights, and business data to identify root causes and recommend effective development solutions.

• Design performance-based learning journeys that include readiness activities, instruction, practice, coaching, reinforcement, and performance checkpoints.

• Create high-quality learning assets, including facilitator guides, participant materials, role-play scenarios, job aids, assessments, leader tools, and communications.

• Partner with subject matter experts and business leaders to transform technical expertise into practical, learner-centered solutions.

• Develop assessment and measurement strategies that evaluate readiness, skill application, behavior adoption, and business impact.

• Support organizational readiness and change adoption through effective communications, reinforcement plans, and continuous improvement efforts.

• Contribute to scalable learning systems by maintaining templates, standards, governance processes, and resource libraries that improve quality and consistency.

Who You Are

• You approach learning challenges with a performance-first mindset and focus on business outcomes, not just knowledge transfer.

• You are skilled at uncovering root causes and translating complex needs into practical solutions.

• You communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders and subject matter experts.

• You balance creativity with structure and can build engaging experiences while maintaining high standards of quality and consistency.

• You are highly organized and capable of managing multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholder expectations simultaneously.

• You value feedback and continuously improve your work through data, observation, and learner insights.

• You embrace emerging technologies and leverage AI tools thoughtfully to improve efficiency, quality, and learner outcomes.

What You Bring

Day One

• 7 to 9+ years of progressive experience in instructional design, learning experience design, talent development, or a related field.

• Demonstrated success conducting needs analyses and building practical, application-focused learning solutions for diverse audiences.

• Experience designing assessments, reinforcement strategies, and evaluation approaches tied to behavior change and business performance.

• Strong stakeholder management, project management, writing, visual design, and executive communication skills.

• Advanced proficiency with Articulate, Canva, presentation tools, collaboration platforms, and content development technologies.

• Deep expertise working with Learning Management Systems.

• Strong AI fluency with demonstrated experience adopting and applying AI tools to improve learning design and development.

• Ability to distinguish between knowledge transfer and true performance-based learning solutions.

• Experience collaborating with subject matter experts and leading effective design and review processes.

Valuable Additions

• Portfolio showcasing performance-based learning programs, learning journeys, and instructional design work products.

• Experience supporting revenue enablement, leadership development, talent acceleration, or organizational capability-building initiatives.

• Background designing blended learning solutions that combine instructor-led, digital, practice-based, and coaching experiences.

• Experience building measurement frameworks that connect learning outcomes to operational or business performance indicators.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards, content governance practices, and scalable learning system design.

Real Benefits for Real Life

At the company, great benefits mean more than coverage; they mean being there through every stage of life: your health, your family, your financial future, or simply time to recharge. Whether you're working or not, life doesn't stop. Neither should your benefits.

Highlights Include

• Multiple medical plan options, with preventive care covered at 100%

• Free virtual medical and mental healthcare for employees and their families, plus a dedicated healthcare concierge to help you navigate benefits, compare prescription costs, and make more confident, personalized care decisions

• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage

• Paid parental leave

• Personalized PTO that lets you take time away when you need it, without traditional accruals, plus separate sick leave

• Competitive 401(k) company match to help you build your financial future

• Comprehensive dental and vision coverage

• Employee Assistance Program with confidential mental health, legal, financial, and work-life support

About the company Growth Insurance Services

At the company, we build our teams around a simple idea: people do their best work when they feel supported as whole people, not just managed as employees. We're invested in your growth, not just your output, and we back that up with a competitive salary and a comprehensive health and welfare program that extends to your family and domestic partners too, because who you're building a life with matters to us as much as the work you do.

Founded in 2019, the company is a growth-focused national insurance services firm that partners with employee benefits and property and casualty agencies across the United States. We're currently ranked the 25th-largest broker in the U.S. by Business Insurance and were named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. With over 2,100 employees operating in 150+ locations across more than 45 states, our collaborative model gives every person and every agency the resources and support they need to grow, while each agency keeps its own identity, culture, and way of doing business. That growth has never been about numbers alone, it's about the people behind them.

The company Growth Insurance Services is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. The company makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, read through our EEO and DE&I Policy located on our website at [link for members]

Pay Range: Posted below*

*Any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with applicable state pay transparency laws, considering relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis. Roles may also be eligible for a supplemental compensation, such as performance-based bonus, commission, or equity. Specific eligibility will be discussed with Talent Acquisition team.

The company Growth Insurance Services offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with company match; personalized time off and company paid holidays.

Pay Range

$95,000 — $110,000 USD