Instructional Designer - Learning Focus

Position: Instructional Designer - Learning Experience Focus
Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people's lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at

Job Summary

The Instructional Designer creates customer-centered learning experiences that support our mission to educate, engage and enable our customers, partners and associates across the lighting and lighting controls industry.

This role designs education that goes beyond product knowledge, enabling lighting specifiers, electrical distributors, electrical contractors, agents and other industry learners to solve real-world challenges, adopt new technologies and apply solutions with confidence. Blending instructional design, learning experience strategy, and facilitation, this position delivers application-driven learning that supports performance, adoption and long-term value.

* Expands beyond online training, creating end-to-end learning experience strategy and design, creating application-driven education that improves performance and adoption across the customer journey.

* Owns blended educational content development (eLearning, ILT, vILT) plus facilitator guides, job aids, and performance support, along with course setup and quiz tracking.

* Leads cross-functional content development with SMEs in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Product to translate technical and industry concepts into learner-ready experiences.

* Adds live facilitation and continuous improvement responsibilities (deliver sessions, gather feedback, iterate content in the LMS).

Key Responsibilities

Learning Experience Design

* Design and develop immersive, application-focused learning experiences that educate, engage and enable learners at every stage of the customer journey.

* Apply adult learning theory and instructional design methodologies (e.g., ADDIE) to create performance-based learning that drives behavior change and real-world application.

* Translate product, technical and industry concepts into clear, learner-ready course content that supports the curriculum, confident decision-making and execution.

* Design and deliver scalable, blended learning experiences, including eLearning, ILT, and vILT, aligned to customer personas and lifecycle stages, driving practice, application and measurable outcomes.

* Develop facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids and performance support tools that enable learning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

* Partner with subject matter experts across Training, Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Product teams to transform expertise into engaging, instructionally sound learning experiences.

* Collaborate with the Curriculum Coordinator to ensure learning journeys, courses, and delivery methods are grounded in real‑world outcomes, informed by adult learning best practices, and support the curriculum (where applicable).

* Incorporate multimedia elements, including video, visuals and interactive activities to enhance engagement, comprehension and retention.

Facilitation & Delivery

* Facilitate live and virtual learning experiences, including webinars, ILT/vILT sessions and CEU programs.

* Support hands-on, multi-day, onsite and event-based learning experiences that reflect real-world use cases and environments.

* Adapt facilitation style to meet diverse learner needs, experience levels and engagement dynamics.

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