McGraw Hill logo

McGraw Hill

Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Contractor 💰 $62K - $75K 💻 Instructional Design 🗓️ February 8th, 2026
K-12 K-5

Edtech.com's Summary

McGraw Hill is hiring a Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA. The role involves collaborating with instructional design teams and cross-functional groups to create innovative digital curriculum assets and learning solutions for K-12 literacy programs. The position requires leadership in managing content quality, accessibility, user testing, and vendor coordination for digital product development.

Highlights
  • Contribute to early product workstreams, including Implementation Models, Journey Maps, and course maps.
  • Design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games, and virtual labs using the UBD process.
  • Manage and lead vendors and freelancers in content creation, scheduling, and weekly status meetings.
  • Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers and support user testing and accessibility efforts.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet product requirements, schedules, and goals.
  • Contribute to the product build process including digital launches and creation of development guidelines.
  • Identify and propose digital solutions for development issues and assist in technical bug resolution and platform enhancements.
  • Perform digital product tasks like metadata tagging, concept mapping, digital editing, and quality assurance of vendor work.
  • Requires 4+ years in digital content development related to teaching and learning materials.
  • Must have a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
  • Experience managing multiple projects with tight deliverables and budgets; strong communication skills.
  • Familiarity with authoring tools, learning management systems, content management systems, and ability to create animated and interactive content.
  • Spanish fluency is desired; prior K-5 teaching experience is a plus.
  • Position is remote, available to applicants authorized to work in the U.S., and is a project status worker role through April 30, 2027.
  • Annual pay range is $62,000 to $75,000, with additional medical and other benefits depending on position.

Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA Full Description

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 resources, is looking for a Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA for our K-12 division literacy programs. 

 

As a Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA you will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media. As part of this team, you will create robust digital tools, curriculum and learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day. Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA is a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for the Literacy programs.

 

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 04/30/2027.

 

What you will be doing:   

  • 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.

 

We're looking for someone with: 

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

 

Why work for us?  
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.    

 

The pay range for this position is between $62,000 - $75,000 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 benefit offerings. 

 

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a "@mheducation.com or @careers.mheducation.com" email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

 

50271

McGraw Hill uses an automated employment decision tool (AEDT) to assist in the screening process by recommending candidates with "like skills" based on resume and job data. To request an alternative screening process, please select "Opt-Out" when asked to "Consent to use of Automated Employment Decision Tools" during the application.