Accelerator Design & Development Director

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October 18

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

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🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote ⚜️ Louisiana – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $150k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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InStride

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Education • HR Tech

InStride is a company that partners with organizations to provide career-aligned, debt-free education programs for employees. By offering strategic design and a flexible platform, InStride supports talent development, enhances employee engagement, and improves talent acquisition. Their solutions include tuition reimbursement, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, which help to build a skilled and resilient workforce in a rapidly evolving workplace. InStride's clients experience significant benefits, such as higher promotion rates, increased employee retention, and improved return on investment (ROI). Notable partnerships include collaborations with companies like Amazon to expand education opportunities for employees across various sectors.

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

👥 HR Tech

📋 Description

• Lead employer engagements during the design and development of custom and semi-custom Capability Accelerators—translating business needs into structured, outcome-driven learning blueprints. • Design or oversee development of programs that integrate AI-enabled practice, simulation, and feedback to drive measurable skill growth. • Collaborate with academic and industry partners to co-create programs that combine academic rigor with business relevance. • Manage instructional designers and content developers (contract and, over time, full-time) to deliver engaging, high-quality learning experiences. • Advance InStride’s ready-to-deploy Accelerators by refining and adapting core content for rapid customization and scale. • Codify and continuously improve the Capability Accelerator model—developing repeatable design systems, templates, and playbooks. • Partner with internal teams to ensure tight alignment between client objectives, academic partnerships, and delivery execution. • Manage multiple concurrent projects with clear priorities, communication, and accountability. • Review feedback and performance data to continuously strengthen content, models, and learner impact. • Build for scale—help define the systems, tools, and workflows that enable InStride’s expanding Accelerator portfolio.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in learning design, corporate education, or higher education • Deep understanding of adult learning and instructional design principles • Experience partnering with enterprise clients to co-design programs tied to business performance and capability development • Proven success working with academic institutions or faculty to co-create programs that combine rigor with real-world relevance • Familiarity with AI-enabled learning design, adaptive feedback, or simulation-based practice environments • Experience managing instructional design teams or vendors to deliver high-quality, complex projects • Skilled at building and improving learning systems, processes, and frameworks for scale and continuous improvement • Strategic and organized—able to juggle multiple priorities while maintaining focus on quality and outcomes • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting quickly as technology and client needs evolve • Willingness to travel occasionally to collaborate with clients, academic partners, and internal teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) plan with company match • Flexible vacation policy • Paid family leave • Best-in-class health care benefits • And more!