Senior Instructional Designer

Experience: 12–15+ years of core Instructional Design experience
Location : Chennai, Perungudi
Role Overview: Manage the Instructional Design function, drive instructional quality and standards, build AI-first ID capabilities within the team, mentor and develop ID talent, and provide senior-level instructional expertise across projects.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and develop the Instructional Design team, ensuring quality, consistency, productivity, and effective resource utilization.
Perform reviews of ID deliverables across Design, Storyboard, and final Output stages, ensuring instructional effectiveness, content accuracy, client alignment, and quality standards.
Drive instructional design standards, frameworks, review practices, and best practices across the team, while identifying recurring quality gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Ensure projects are delivered within estimated ID efforts, while meeting client expectations and maintaining instructional quality.
Provide a consultative approach to clients, advising on instructional design strategies, learning approaches, learner engagement, and effective content treatment.
Drive AI-first adoption within the ID function, identifying relevant AI use cases across the ID lifecycle and training the team on effective AI usage, prompting, tool selection, validation, and human review.
Leverage AI and automation to improve ID productivity, efficiency, turnaround time, and quality, while ensuring appropriate human oversight.
Collaborate with Sales, PM, Multimedia, Production, QA, SMEs, and clients to ensure effective project execution and alignment.
Drive capability development and continuous improvement within the ID function through mentoring, knowledge-sharing, process improvements, and adoption of emerging learning technologies.
Desired Profile
12–15+ years of hands-on Instructional Design experience, preferably in eLearning/digital learning.
Strong experience in ID leadership, instructional strategy, quality management, and team development.
Strong understanding of eLearning, video, simulations, gamification, blended learning, and other digital learning formats.
Strong AI expertise and practical experience applying AI tools across the instructional design lifecycle.
Ability to use and train and enable teams on effective and responsible AI adoption.
Excellent client/stakeholder communication, consultative, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to balance instructional quality, client expectations, timelines, and ID efforts.
Interested candidates can share their updated resumes at: - sankar.rajan@novactech.in

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