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
