Learning and Development Manager (Remote, Permanent Full-time)

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Permanent Full-time Details

$115,000 - $130,000 with competitive benefits package
January 2025 start date
Location: 100% Remote (U.S. candidates only)
Schedule: 9–5pm EST/CST/MST/PST with daily Slack communication
Industry Focus is Construction, Skilled Trades, Industrial Safety, Blue-Collar Workforce Training
Laptop and licenses provided
Portfolio REQUIRED for consideration

About the Role

For nearly 20 years, our client has supported America’s skilled-trade workforce by designing, developing, and delivering modern learning solutions for high-demand industries. With increasing demand in the blue collar labor space, our client is elevating our Instructional Design function with a new leadership role.

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for a Learning and Development Manager who is both:

A strong people leader who is able to set the tone, elevate performance, mentor the team, and bring stability, clarity, and energy to the ISD function.
A highly skilled Learning Architect who can join the sales cycle, lead learning strategy conversations, define solution architecture, and represent L&D expertise with confidence.
A hands-on Senior Instructional Designer who can produce deliverables, manage their own projects, and model quality and speed.

This role requires deep experience in end-to-end learning design, strong comfort with technical/industrial training, and a passion for AI-enabled development workflows.

You will lead a small team, partner closely with project management and senior leadership, and design learning solutions across the construction, industrial safety, skilled trades, and blue-collar workforce development sectors.

Leadership & Culture

Lead, mentor, and upskill a team of Instructional Designers while establishing a high-performance, accountable, solutions-focused culture.
Assess team talent, workflows, and development practices; recommend improvements and implement new standards.
Set expectations for being proactive, adaptable, and modern in development approaches.

Learning Architecture & Sales Support

Serve as the learning strategy lead during sales cycles, contributing to discovery, solutioning, scoping, and early program design.
Translate stakeholder needs into clear learning strategies, program structures, estimates, and implementation plans.
Bring industry-level confidence and expertise to conversations involving complex technical content.
Create accurate timelines, hours estimates, and structured scopes of work.

Hands-On Instructional Design & Development

Design and develop end-to-end learning solutions using tools like Storyline, Rise, and Synthesia.
Build learning for industrial and technical audiences.
Conduct needs assessments, content audits, and learning analysis.
Create storyboards, scripts, assessments, performance support, and microlearning.Modernize and optimize existing content for clarity and speed.

AI-Forward Process Improvement

Identify, evaluate, and integrate AI tools that improve development speed and quality.
Train the team in AI workflows (Gemini, ChatGPT, Synthesia, 7taps, automation tools, etc.).
Build reusable templates, libraries, and processes to shorten development cycles.

Project & Stakeholder Management

Manage your own learning projects end-to-end (player/coach model).
Partner with PMs to ensure scopes, timelines, and deliverables remain aligned.
Provide proactive communication, risk management, and solution planning.

What We’re Looking For

7+ years in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, or similar.
Experience managing or mentoring instructional design teams
Experience designing training in technical, industrial, construction, or blue-collar environments.
Strong Learning Architect skills, including leading discovery, scoping, and early design strategy.
Hands-on expertise with Storyline, Rise, and at least one AI-driven tool (Gemini, GPT, Synthesia, etc.).
Ability to work in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent projects.
Strong client-facing presence and ability to simplify complex technical material.

Preferred

Consulting experience in custom learning development agencies.
Familiarity with LMS/LXP ecosystems and custom learning platforms.
Experience with Jira or similar project management tools.
Demonstrated history implementing AI into ID workflows.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You

A leader-doer who can shift between strategy, execution, and coaching.
Excited by a high-volume environment with constant opportunities to build.
Curious, modern, and unafraid to integrate new tools—especially AI.
Skilled at navigating ambiguity and transforming it into structure and clarity.
Motivated by improving the learning experience for real-world workers.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $115,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Work Location: Remote

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