Prudential Financial
Senior Instructional Designer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Shelton, CT
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $107K - $166K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ October 9th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Prudential is hiring a Senior Instructional Designer to develop innovative eLearning courses that combine advanced graphic design, multimedia skills, and AI-driven content curation. The role involves collaborating with subject matter experts and various business functions to create engaging and compliant learning materials that support workforce development in the financial services sector.
Highlights
- Design and develop visually engaging eLearning courses using graphic design expertise.
- Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity in the learning and development process.
- Utilize Adobe Creative Suite and multimedia production techniques for high-quality instructional content.
- Curate diverse learning content aligned with organizational goals.
- Create workshop materials that promote active learning and discussion.
- Collaborate with executive leaders, SMEs, and departments such as Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Tax.
- Ensure all learning materials meet regulatory compliance requirements.
- Evaluate and refine learning strategies based on assessment data.
- Required qualifications include FINRA SIE and Series 6 certifications (or obtain within 180 days), a bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant fields, and proficiency with eLearning authoring tools like Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate.
- Supports US business units including Group Insurance, Individual Life Insurance, and Retirement Strategies.
- Salary range: $107,300 to $166,400, with additional benefits such as bonuses, insurance, 401(k) with match, pension plan, wellness programs, and education benefits.
Senior Instructional Designer Full Description
Senior Instructional Designer
Shelton, CT, USA
CT-Virtual Office
Full time
Job Classification:Corporate - People Team
At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions!
Prudential is a place where your graphic design flair, eLearning acumen, and content curation abilities will not only be celebrated but will also directly contribute to the growth and development of our workforce. As part of our team, you will drive the creation of learning experiences that are both educationally profound and visually stunning, helping us foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Your role will be instrumental in creating and curating a diverse array of content, ensuring our employees have access to the best and most relevant learning resources available.
An ideal candidate for the L&D function is agile and intellectually curious, able to influence and provide thought leadership in their domain of expertise while effectively navigating ambiguity and driving business outcomes with a learner centric approach. The individual must demonstrate business insight and possess a passion about learning and enhancing learner engagement. Additionally, the ability to build outstanding and constructive working relationships with key partners and foster an inclusive environment will be critical. All L&D team members will need to demonstrate these skills to ensure we collectively deliver optimal business value and customer impact.
We are seeking a Senior Instructional Designer who stands out in the realm of eLearning, boasts advanced graphic design and multimedia capabilities, and possesses superior content curation skills. The ideal candidate will have experience and passion for using AI to automate and augment development processes. Your expertise in instructional and graphic design and familiarity with AI will help us craft industry leading educational experiences that are not only visually engaging but also based in research, helping us to shape a future-ready workforce.
This role will require you to have a strong business knowledge of the financial services industry and demonstrate and integrate this knowledge in all work products. This role will support content builds primarily for, but not limited to, our US Businesses including Group Insurance, Individual Life Insurance, and Retirement Strategies.
The current employee work arrangement for this position is hybrid or virtual and may require your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis and/or some travel as determined by your business, dependent on the candidate's location. Your manager will provide additional details relative to the specific number of days you are expected to be on-site.
What you can expect:
- Strategic eLearning Design: Develop innovative eLearning courses, using your expertise in graphic design to create captivating visual narratives that support and enhance learning objectives.
- AI in L&D Expertise: Use AI tools and advise on strategy for using AI to increase productivity and output in our agile development environment.
- Graphic Design and Multimedia Excellence: Utilize your mastery of Adobe Creative Suite to produce exceptional graphics, animations, and layouts that elevate the aesthetic and instructional quality of our learning materials. Use your multimedia production experience and familiarity with best practices for visual design and video production.
- Content Curation: Leverage your advanced content curation skills to research, select, and organize high-quality content from a variety of sources, ensuring relevance and alignment with our learning goals.
- Workshop and Material Design: Combine your design and curation talents to create engaging workshop materials, providing participants with a rich tapestry of content that stimulates learning and discussion.
- Collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs): Engage and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders, executive level leaders, SMEs, and others functions such as Compliance, Product, Legal, Risk, and Tax.
- Submit Materials for Compliance Review, as required: Assure all materials meet Compliance requirements for content and disclosure.
- Impactful Learning Assessment: Evaluate the effectiveness of design and curated content in achieving learning outcomes and use these insights to continually refine and optimize our L&D strategies.
What you’ll need:
- FINRA SIE and Series 6 required or must be obtained within 180 days of hire.
- Robust Design and Curation Background: A bachelor’s or master’s degree in graphic design, instructional design, or a related field, supplemented by a strong portfolio that highlights your design and content curation expertise.
- eLearning Development Expertise: Extensive experience with authoring tools like Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate, combined with a skillful integration of graphics and interactive elements.
- Advanced Content Curation: Demonstrated ability in content curation, with an emphasis on sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing content to create comprehensive learning experiences.
- Engaging Workshop Creation: A history of designing and leading workshops that leverage both custom design work and curated content to enhance learning engagement and effectiveness.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: A proven track record of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cohesive and visually appealing learning solutions.
Prudential welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.
At Prudential, you can:
Take charge of your career. We equip and empower our employees to expand their skills and experience by using powerful learning, gigs, and job opportunities. We offer a suite of services such as on demand resources and networking to propel your career forward.
We’re a global organization, full of outstandingly dedicated people who aren’t afraid to think differently, challenge the status quo and take sensible risks along the way. You will enjoy pushing boundaries as we build innovative technology that helps clients, customers and employees live their best lives. You will have access to leadership and learning opportunities and the resources needed to take your career in any direction. We will help you do your best work, offering flexibility, while delivering on our Purpose.
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What we offer you:
Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $107,300.00 to $166,400.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.
- Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
- Company-funded pension plan.
- Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
- Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
- Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.
If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.
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