L&D Instructional Designer
Posted 1 day ago by 1756881874
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The L&D Instructional Designer role requires a professional who can effectively interpret and translate Lean Portfolio and Product Management concepts into practical content for diverse audiences. The position emphasizes collaboration with practitioners to create various documentation types, including executive briefings and training materials. The ideal candidate will possess strong visual communication skills and a proven ability to consolidate information into coherent artifacts. This role is remote and classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate complex operating models into executive briefings, contributor-level guides, audit-ready documentation, and training content.
- Work directly with practitioners to extract practical applications of Lean Portfolio and Product Management concepts.
- Create PowerPoint presentations and visual communications for flow diagrams and role maps.
- Produce condensed executive overviews, role cards, onboarding checklists, and facilitation guides.
- Develop audit evidence templates and maintain a terminology glossary for consistent language.
- Structure and update the handbook and playbook, including SharePoint management.
Key Skills:
- Strong grasp of Lean Portfolio & Product Management concepts (preferably SAFe, Disciplined Agile, or Gartner-aligned).
- 5–7 years of experience in portfolio management, product management, or enterprise change documentation.
- Ability to interview SMEs and leaders to extract decisions and workflows.
- Proven track record in creating narrative and visual enablement content.
- Skilled in PowerPoint and visual communication.
- Strong editing and consolidation skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
NOTES
• 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 and 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