Instructional Designer
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Job overview
The Instructional Designer develops technology-enhanced learning experiences for campus-wide academic technology initiatives. The role creates instructional assets for distinct audiences and applies learning science principles to support accessible, scalable curricula aligned with institutional adoption goals. The designer partners with the Project Manager and Training Specialist to prepare facilitation-ready materials and session plans for delivery.
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Full job description
Use established instructional design methods to design technology-enhanced learning experiences including measurable learning outcomes, performance indicators, and aligned activities for campus-wide academic technology initiatives.Develop instructional assets (guides, tutorials, job aids, multimedia resources) grounded in evidence-based learning science and tailored to distinct audience needs (CSUs, faculty, staff, students, and administrators).Apply established learning science principles to ensure training curricula are accessible, scalable, and aligned with institutional adoption goals.Partner with the Project Manager and Training Specialist to ensure designed learning experiences are delivered on schedule and translated into facilitation-ready materials, session plans, and facilitator guides.
How this job compares
Set against the 717 open Instructional Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$75–118K/yr25 salary ranges
- US median$25–64/hr73 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 58 open Instructional Designer jobs in Texas and 717 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)5 open
- Level AI4 open
- Oracle4 open
- Experience
- Instructional Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (621 postings).
- Education
- 381 of the 717 open Instructional Designer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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