Instructional Designer

**Instructional Designer**

Our Mission: To Save Lives
Our Vision: Rethink the Ordinary

IMPROV Learning is a leader in innovative and engaging educational solutions. We combine entertainment and education to create programs that make complex topics more accessible, engaging, and impactful.

**About the Role**

You are a storyteller first, the instructional Designer second. Who knows how to take dry and boring and turn it into a wow experience.

We are seeking an Experienced Instructional Designer to lead the design and delivery of online driver-safety courses in both short and long format. At IMPROV Learning, we pride ourselves on crafting content that looks, sounds, and feels unlike anything else in the market—mixing humor, storytelling, and data-driven learning science. You’ll guide a team of 2-4 content developers and stay hands-on yourself, ensuring every course embraces our mission while meeting rigorous learning objectives.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Lead & Mentor
- Provide day-to-day coaching, design reviews, and professional development for 2-4 direct reports.
- Model best practices in project scoping, SME collaboration, QA, and on-time delivery.
- Create development plans and strategies

Design & Development
- Build SCORM/xAPI courses with tools such as Articulate 360 (Storyline, Rise), Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, Vyond, and Elucidat.
- Embed interactive scenarios, branching simulations, and video that reflect real-world defensive-driving challenges and evolving DOT/state regulations.

Implementation & Evaluation
- Publish, configure, and maintain content in our LMS, ensuring seamless learner experience and Section 508/WCAG 2.1 accessibility.
- Leverage analytics to track learner performance and run Level 1-3 evaluations (Kirkpatrick) for rapid, data-driven iteration.

Project & Stakeholder Management
- Organize agile sprints and track team member tasks, keeping cross-functional teams aligned on scope, schedule, and quality.
- Present data-backed insights and course outcomes to executives, compliance/legal teams, and enterprise fleet customers.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Education: Bachelors in Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Education, or related field (master's preferred).
- Experience:

- 5+ years of designing e-learning solutions, with 1-2 years directly leading or mentoring instructional designers.
- Demonstrated success creating compliance, safety, or technical content in fun and memorable fashion.
- Experience with creating microlearning content
- Expert written and spoken English Language skills, Spanish is a plus
- Technical Skills:

- Proficiency with Articulate 360 Suite, Adobe Captivate, Vyond/Camtasia, Adobe Creative Cloud, and SCORM/xAPI or LTI publishing.
- Hands-on experience administering and configuring LMS, including analytics dashboards and custom reporting.
- Extensive knowledge of how to leverage AI-based tools
- Animation and/or video experience is a big plus
- Soft Skills: Exceptional communication, coaching mindset, analytical thinking, and the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and most IMPORTANT -sense of humor

**Bonus Points if you have**:

- ATD CPTD/ACPT, PMP, Agile/Scrum, or eLearning Guild certifications
- Experience with driver-safety regulations, telematics data, or fleet-management systems

Location: Remote

**WHY JOIN US?**

We’re re-thinking the extraordinary mission to save lives As an established e-learning company with a 25-year history of serving 4 million students, we are just getting started -- and we need YOU to help us DRIVE into the future. Five-time Winner of Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies IN AMERICA and Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in LA are some accomplishments that make us cheer. And what really makes us proud is working with extraordinary individuals every day who are ready to help us in our mission to save lives with engaging training content. Investing into our innovation principle, we’re building a startup within our own organization to disrupt the teen driver education market and build bridges into the future of what driving will look like.

If you’re the kind of person who never settles, has a thirst for knowledge, and loves what you do, join us Together, let’s drive to the future

**OUR MISSION & CULTURE**

We believe in thinking differently. We believe in challenging the status quo. We believe that Good is the Enemy of Great. We had an idea 25 years ago that changed the training industry forever. The notion was simple: the more you enjoy learning, the more you’ll remember. Our training programs were created in partnership with the World-Famous Improv Comedy Club to make training Fun, Fast, and Effective. Since then, our unique edutainment courses have won copious accolades from Over 4 million students, and a number of effectiveness studies later, we’re proud to say that we were right, we do SAVE LIVES

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