Lead Instructional Designer
Quick Summary
You'll design holistic solutions engaging team members and business partners in the design process to ensure the solution design is flexible and addresses the unique needs of the learners,
ADP is hiring a Lead Instructional Designer.
- Do you enjoy aligning learning strategies, programs, and outcomes across business units, products, and learner audiences?
- Are you passionate about elevating learning design standards while mentoring other instructional designers and driving innovation?
Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?
As Lead Instructional Designer, you will help ensure quality and compliance across large-scale learning efforts while implementing cross-functional learning frameworks. Working across courses, programs, learning paths, business units, products, and global learning initiatives, you will help align vision, purpose, and outcomes to create a more connected and consistent learning experience. You will partner with team members and business partners to design flexible learning solutions that address the unique needs of learners.
No two days are the same. You will analyze and align design, innovation, audience experience, industry vernacular, language translation, and sustainability across learning projects and programs while identifying opportunities for content reuse and linkage. You will do this to the highest standards with an eye on accessibility, cultural learning needs, and appeal to multi-generational talent and the modern learner.
Working across the learning organization, you will use Enterprise Learning dashboard data to inform design decisions, consult on learning solutions, and help drive continuous improvement of learning design standards and practices. You will create compelling content, convey ideas and information to all levels of the organization, and mentor other team members to help elevate their skills and performance. Through this work, you will help our businesses support clients of all sizes, from those with a single employee to those employing millions.
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Learn more about ADP at jobs.adp.com
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:
Innovation: You seek opportunities to apply innovative design thinking to your projects and will work to keep ADP's approach to designing learning up to date with the products and solutions ADP offers its clients.
Flexibility and Agility: You can adapt to changing business requirements, projects, and resources and use agile approaches to meet business needs.
Design: You'll design holistic solutions engaging team members and business partners in the design process to ensure the solution design is flexible and addresses the unique needs of the learners, while also identifying reuse and linkage opportunities across course content. Solution design should consider long-term risks to methods and models of tool and design use and implementation.
Development: You can develop solutions across a broad set of learning modalities and tools without creating redundant solutions and ensure that continuous learning and performance support concepts are applied.
Learning Outcomes: You measure your outcomes and ensure your learning solutions result in the intended business impact. You oversee the optimal use of the LMS administrative functions and innovative use of design application within the LMS.
Continuous Learner: You focus on personal development to develop and elevate professional knowledge and skill. You take the same approach to business process improvement to improve ADP learning design standards and drive the adoption of those standards. You maintain an outside-in perspective by building and maintaining peer networks inside and outside ADP.
Mentor: You'll be a mentor to team members to help develop their skills and elevate their performance.
Experience. You have 8+ years of experience in instructional development, adult learning theory, and technical writing, gained and developed in the same or similar role.
TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
- Demonstrated expertise in instructional development, adult learning theory, and technical writing, including experience aligning vision, purpose, and outcomes across courses, programs, learning paths, business units, products, and global learning initiatives.
- Advanced experience using Articulate 360, TechSmith Camtasia, TechSmith SnagIt, and Audacity, with the technical aptitude to quickly learn new development tools.
- Experience using the Lyric platform.
- Experience supporting the National Accounts (NAS) business.
- Experience mentoring instructional designers and helping elevate learning design standards and practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create compelling content and convey ideas and information to all levels of an organization.
- You'll have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
For additional comfortability in the role:
- Experience with Graphic Design.
- Experience using a Learning Management System (i.e., Litmos).
- Experience with Programming fundamentals: HTML, CSS or JavaScript, BBcode.
- Comfort with browser consoles, troubleshooting JQuery commands.
YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:
- Collaborate. We value courage, ownership, and respect to find the best solutions together.
- Deliver at epic scale. Your work will shape learning experiences for associates and clients worldwide.
- Be surrounded by curious learners. We stay agile, learn from mistakes, and grow together.
- Act like an owner & doer. You’ll set direction and see your strategy come to life.
- Give back to others. We do the right thing for our clients, associates, and communities.
- Join a company committed to equality and equity. We’re building a culture where everyone belongs.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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- October 21, 2026
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- October 21, 2026
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- October 21, 2026
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