IBM
Sr. Instructional Designer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $111K - $191K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ August 1st, 2025
ADDIE
Camtasia
Gainsight
Edtech.com's Summary
IBM Software is hiring a Sr. Instructional Designer responsible for analyzing, creating, developing, and evaluating engaging learning content including self-paced courses and instructor-led training. The role includes advocating for learners, ensuring materials are effective and aligned with adult learning principles, managing multiple projects, and mentoring other instructional designers.
Highlights
- Design and develop eLearning, instructor-led, and blended learning solutions using adult learning best practices and the ADDIE model.
- Analyze learning needs and develop learning outcomes with minimal management input.
- Consult with stakeholders to define delivery modalities and act as a trusted advisor.
- Maintain and evaluate courses to keep content current and effective.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and mentor instructional designers.
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite, Moodle, and Adobe LMS.
- Strong project management and communication skills required.
- Preferred experience includes ADA compliance knowledge, global team collaboration, and tools like Gainsight PX.
- Educational requirement: Bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred.
- Compensation range: $111,000 to $191,000 per year.
Sr. Instructional Designer Full Description
Sr. Instructional Designer
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, DURHAM, North Carolina, United States
IBM Software
Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers' challenges into industry-leading solutions.
We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.
IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Sr. Instructional Designer, you will analyze, create, develop, and evaluate engaging learning content for various training programs. This includes self-paced courses, instructor-led training, student guides, step-by-step tutorials, and eLearning modules. You will advocate for learners throughout the content development process, ensuring materials are effective, engaging, and aligned with adult learning principles. Instructional Designers may specialize in course design, content development, multimedia production, visual design, blended learning, and digital learning solutions. Your role will ensure content is up-to-date, easily accessible, and tailored to diverse learner needs.Your primary responsibilities include:
- Instructional design: Analyze learning needs focusing on personas with less defined learning needs and develop learning outcomes accordingly.
- Engaging Content Development: Design and develop engaging instructional content with limited input from management (e.g., self-paced courses, instructor-led courses, student guides) using adult-learning best practices.
- Modality Curation and Stakeholder Collaboration: Define modalities for delivery by consulting with internal and external stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to business groups.
- Course Ownership and Maintenance: Own courses, conducting regular maintenance and evaluation to ensure content remains current and effective.
- Time and project management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
- Mentorship: Mentor and guide Instructional Designers to support their professional growth and development.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Extensive experience designing eLearning, instructor-led, and blended learning solutions using ADDIE instructional design models.
- Experience with HTML and CSS for course design and customization.
- Strong project management skills, with experience working in high-paced environments and managing multiple projects.
- Proficiency in content development tools (e.g., Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite) and Learning Management Systems (e.g., Moodle, Adobe LMS).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Knowledge of ADA compliance for accessible learning experiences.
- Experience working in global teams across different time zones and cultures.
- Experience with tools like Gainsight PX to create step-by-step in-app engagements.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
Job Title
Sr. Instructional Designer
Date posted
30-Jul-2025
Job ID
47771
City / Township / Village
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, DURHAM
State / Province
North Carolina
Country
United States
Work arrangement
Remote
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Contract type
Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year
111,000.00
Projected Maximum Salary per year
191,000.00
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company
(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
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