Lead Instructional Designer, Dual Literacy (ELA/SLA)

Location: Remote within the United States; may also be based in a hirify.global office. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Salary: $75,000–$85,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides digital and print educational resources, including K-12 literacy programs used by educators and students.

What you will do

• Plan, design, assemble, finalize, and maintain instructional materials, curriculum, learning solutions, and digital tools for Dual Literacy programs delivered in print and digital formats.
• Collaborate with content, product management, UX, creative media, and other delivery teams to solve complex problems, develop conceptual solutions, and improve workflows.
• Contribute to product builds through quality control of English- and Spanish-language digital assets, metadata tagging, concept mapping, script go-bys, digital editing, and platform or authoring-tool troubleshooting.
• Create workflow documentation, best practices, instructional guidelines, course maps, implementation models, journey maps, proofs of concept, and high-fidelity prototypes using design principles and backward design.
• Train and mentor instructional designers and new team members, oversee vendor and freelancer teams, and manage digital launches and deliverables.
• Champion accessibility, support user testing, identify risks, develop contingency plans, and negotiate trade-offs across scope, quality, time, and resources within an Agile framework.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
• Experience working with Spanish-language materials.
• 4+ years of experience in digital content development involving teaching and learning materials.
• Experience managing multiple projects with tight deliverables and budgets.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence decisions involving scope, quality, time, and resources.
• Experience designing digital platforms and creating learning experiences with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
• Solution-oriented approach focused on practical and effective problem-solving.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and their application to instructional design and content development.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a Spanish, ESL, SLA, or dual-language teacher.
• Previous K-5 teaching experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States, with the option to work from a hirify.global office.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media.
• Opportunity to develop educational resources used by millions of educators and students.
• Project Status Worker role with an end date of August 31, 2027.
• Benefits are available according to hirify.global’s benefit offerings.