Instructional Designer

Job Description

Instructional Designer

100% remote

Multiyear contract

Not a pure tech writer and not a pure instructional designer

Someone who can understand the LPPM/IPPM concepts well enough to interpret, distill, and translate them into practical, repeatable content for different audiences.

Core Capabilities:

• Strong grasp of Lean Portfolio & Product Management concepts (preferably SAFe, Disciplined Agile, or Gartner-aligned)

• Ability to work directly with practitioners to extract practical application, not just theory

• Translate complex operating models into:

o Executive briefings (concise, visual, strategic)

o Contributor-level guides and quick-start kits (step-by-step, role-specific)

o Audit-ready documentation (clear traceability, decisions, evidence)

o Training/enablement content (facilitation guides, PPT decks, visuals, glossaries)

• Skilled in PowerPoint and visual communication for flow diagrams, role maps, and model illustrations

• Strong editing and consolidation skills and can take multiple sources and produce one clean, coherent artifact

Deliverables They Should Own:

• Condensed executive overviews of the handbook for decision-makers

• Role cards, quick-start kits, onboarding checklists

• Discovery, planning, and governance facilitation guides

• PowerPoint decks and consolidated visuals for governance events, audits, and training

• Audit evidence templates traceability documentation (i.e. epics, lean business cases, process flow content)

• Terminology glossary and lexicon for consistent language across pilot

• Handbook and playbook structure, format, and updates including SharePoint

Experience to Require:

• At least 5–7 years in portfolio management, product management, or enterprise change/enablement documentation

• Experience supporting portfolio/product or agile transformations or security-related portfolios

• Ability to interview SMEs and leaders to extract decisions, workflows, and rationale

• Proven track record creating both narrative and visual enablement content

Where This Fits in Your Team:

• Works side-by-side with our PMO and Delivery partners

• Embedded in pilot events (discovery labs, PI planning, demos) to capture and translate live learnings into reusable content

• Reports progress through tangible deliverables

Full-time