Assistant Manager - Instructional Designer

About the Company:

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 65 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 2,000 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. Following its $650 million Series E funding round in August 2021, the Company is valued at $3.2 billion, and is backed by Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.

Role Overview:

Emeritus Insights is our micro-learning platform for working professionals, accessed by our enterprise clients worldwide. As AM - Instructional Designer, you will create short, high-impact video learning that changes how people work.

The role is an even split between instructional design and video production. You will decide what a learner needs to learn and in what order, then bring it to life through storyboards, visuals and finished video, using both traditional and AI-based tools, in line with the Emeritus brand and learner needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Instructional design 50%

• Partner with SMEs, Course Leaders and Writers to diagnose the learning need, audience and on-the-job behavior each piece of content should change.
• Design learning paths and content sequences by curating, structuring, and reorganizing existing materials into coherent, outcome-driven learning journeys.
• Develop assessments, knowledge checks, scenarios and reflection prompts that reinforce application, not just recall.
• Run content and design reviews, recommending improvements for alignment with objectives, scope and quality standards.

Video & visual production 50%

• Create storyboards from scripts and transcripts, specifying on-screen text, graphics and animations, imagery and visual treatment with a clear rationale.
• Produce original, learner-ready video end to end: scripting, recording, filming/recording, and end to end production.
• Leverage generative AI tools to accelerate the production of video, audio, text and visual assets, applying human review for accuracy and quality.

Delivery & continuous improvement

• Manage multiple projects at once against design specifications, delivering high-quality work on time.
• Improve content development workflows, templates and tools, and bring in emerging e-learning and AI trend

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Must have

• 3–5 years in training or learning content design, including hands-on creation of original video-based learning content (not limited to editing existing material).
• A portfolio showing micro-learning or e-learning videos you have scripted, storyboarded and produced yourself.
• Proven ability to write measurable, performance-based learning outcomes and design content backwards from them.
• Experience consulting with SMEs: asking the right questions about audience, performance gaps and real-world application before designing.
• Ability to repurpose long-form content into focused micro-learning, and to critically review and restructure content outlines for sound sequencing and practice.
• Strong storyboarding and visual thinking: translating a fixed script into on-screen text, infographics and visuals, with a clear rationale for each choice.
• Experience designing learning paths or curricula, and building interactive elements, scenarios and assessments tied to learning outcomes.
• Working knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design models (e.g. ADDIE, Bloom's taxonomy, multimedia learning principles).
• Excellent written English (US English) for scripts and on-screen copy, plus strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage several projects at once in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with strong attention to detail and problem-solving.
• Graduate in any discipline.

Good to have

• Certification in Instructional Design, and experience creating content for corporate / enterprise learners or professional education.

Tools

• AI tools: Moderate proficiency in AI content-creation tools such as NotebookLM, Claude, Vyond or similar generative AI platforms.
• Video: Working knowledge of video editing and motion tools (e.g. Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Camtasia or similar).
• Authoring & productivity: Adobe Captivate or Articulate 360 is a plus; strong MS Office skills, especially PowerPoint and Word for storyboarding.

Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.