Sr. Instructional Designer; Mars Global Services; Hyderabad

Job Description:

What are we looking for?

Education & Professional Qualifications

- Degree or equivalent professional experience in instructional design, learning design, education, or a related field.
- Formal training or certification in instructional design, learning experience design, or human‑centred design is preferred.
- Experience working in a corporate, higher‑education, or large‑scale learning environment.
- Relevant experience aligned to role level with demonstrated leadership of design practice or communities.

Knowledge / Experience

- Deep expertise in instructional design for learning assets across multiple formats, including presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, and live session content.
- Strong understanding of adult learning principles, accessibility standards, and learner‑centred design as applied specifically to learning assets.
- Proven ability to define, apply, and evolve asset standards, templates, and quality criteria at scale.
- Experience designing assets with deployment, reuse, governance, and maintenance in mind.
- Experience establishing and running quality assurance or review processes for learning assets.
- Ability to identify gaps, risks, and inconsistencies in learning assets and take corrective action through guidance and standards rather than re‑doing the work.
- Strong documentation skills to ensure assets are clearly specified, complete, and ready for handover.
- Experience working in a matrixed environment with Learning Experience Leads, Learning Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts, and deployment teams.
- Ability to balance business needs, timelines, and constraints while maintaining asset quality and design integrity.
- Comfortable operating as a design authority, influencing without owning end‑to‑end delivery.
- Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing instructional designers or design communities, building consistent capability and confidence in asset creation.
- Experience setting clear expectations for quality, ways of working, and review processes across a design team or community.
- Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback that improves quality and reduces rework.
- Experience supporting onboarding and upskilling of designers in tools, templates, and asset standards.
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What will be your key responsibilities?

- Own and evolve standards, templates, and quality criteria for learning assets across Mars U.
- Define what “good” looks like for learning assets across formats (presentations, facilitator guides, learner materials, digital modules, live session content).
- Ensure consistent application of asset standards aligned to the Learning Experience Playbook and agreed technology choices.
- Provide clear direction on asset structure, level of detail, accessibility, and learner usability.
- Lead, coach, and develop a large community of instructional designers (up to ~40) focused on high‑quality learning asset creation.
- Build strong, consistent capability in asset design, development, and documentation across the team.
- Set clear expectations for asset quality, ways of working, and review processes.
- Support onboarding and upskilling of instructional designers in tools, templates, and asset standards.
- Act as a role model for strong, learner‑centred learning asset design.
- Establish and run quality assurance processes for learning assets across Mars U.
- Review learning assets created by others to identify gaps, risks, or quality issues before handover.
- Ensure assets are complete, consistent, accessible, and clearly documented for deployment teams.
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to improve asset quality and reduce rework downstream.
- Personally design or build learning assets only in exceptional cases, such as complex programs, flagship initiatives, or to model best practice for the team.

What can you expect from Mars?

- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.