Learning and Development Manager; Remote

Position: Learning and Development Manager (Remote, Permanent Full-time)

🌟Learning and Development Manager (Remote, Permanent Full-time)

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📝Permanent Full-time Details

• $115,000 - $130,000 with competitive benefits package
• January 2026 start date
• Location:
  
  100% Remote (U.S. candidates only)
• Schedule:
  
  9–5pm EST/CST/MST/PST with daily Slack communication
• Industry Focus is Construction, Skilled Trades, Industrial Safety, Blue-Collar Workforce Training
• Laptop and licenses provided
• Portfolio REQUIRED for consideration

🎬 About the Role

For nearly 20 years, our client has supported America’s skilled-trade workforce by designing, developing, and delivering modern learning solutions for high-demand industries. With increasing demand in the blue collar labor space, our client is elevating our Instructional Design function with a new leadership role.

🎯What You’ll Do

We’re looking for a Learning and Development Manager who is both:

• A strong people leader who is able to set the tone, elevate performance, mentor the team, and bring stability, clarity, and energy to the ISD function.

• A highly skilled Learning Architect who can join the sales cycle, lead learning strategy conversations, define solution architecture, and represent L&D expertise with confidence.

• A hands-on Senior Instructional Designer who can produce deliverables, manage their own projects, and model quality and speed.

This role requires deep experience in end-to-end learning design, strong comfort with technical/industrial training, and a passion for AI-enabled development workflows.

You will lead a small team, partner closely with project management and senior leadership, and design learning solutions across the construction, industrial safety, skilled trades, and blue-collar workforce development sectors.

Leadership & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and upskill a team of Instructional Designers while establishing a high-performance, accountable, solutions-focused culture.

• Assess team talent, workflows, and development practices; recommend improvements and implement new standards.

• Set expectations for being proactive, adaptable, and modern in development approaches.

Learning Architecture & Sales Support

• Serve as the learning strategy lead during sales cycles, contributing to discovery, solutioning, scoping, and early program design.

• Translate stakeholder needs into clear learning strategies, program structures, estimates, and implementation plans.

• Bring industry-level confidence and expertise to conversations involving complex technical content.

• Create accurate timelines, hours estimates, and structured scopes of work.

Hands-On Instructional Design & Development

• Design and develop end-to-end learning solutions using tools like Storyline, Rise, and Synthesia.

• Build learning for industrial and technical audiences.

• Conduct needs assessments, content audits, and learning analysis.

• Create storyboards, scripts, assessments, performance support, and microlearning. Modernize and optimize existing content for clarity and speed.

AI-Forward Process Improvement

• Identify, evaluate, and integrate AI tools that improve development speed and quality.

• Train the team in AI workflows (Gemini, ChatGPT, Synthesia, 7taps, automation tools, etc.).

• Build reusable templates, libraries, and processes to shorten development cycles.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Manage your own learning projects end-to-end (player/coach model).

• Partner with PMs to ensure scopes, timelines, and deliverables remain aligned.

• Provide proactive communication, risk management, and solution planning.

🔍 What We’re Looking For Required

• 7+ years in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, or similar.

• Experience managing or mentoring instructional design teams

• Experience designing training in technical, industrial, construction, or blue-collar environments.

• Strong Learning Architect skills, including leading discovery, scoping, and early design strategy.

• Hands-on expertise with Storyline, Rise, and at least one AI-driven tool (Gemini, GPT, Synthesia, etc.).

• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent projects.

• Strong client-facing presence and ability to simplify complex technical material.

Preferred

• Consulting experience in custom learning development agencies.

• Familiarity with LMS/LXP ecosystems and custom learning platforms.

• Experience with Jira or similar project management tools.

• Demonstrated history implementing AI into .

💡 You’ll Thrive in This Role If You

• A leader-doer who can shift between strategy, execution, and coaching.

• Excited by a high-volume environment with constant opportunities to build.

• Curious, modern, and unafraid to integrate new tools—especially AI.

• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and transforming it into structure and clarity.

• Motivated by improving the learning experience for real-world workers.

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