L&D: Sr Instructional Designer

Overview

Senior Instructional Designer role within LPL Financial's Learning and Development team, serving as a strategic learning consultant, solution owner and senior design leader for complex business capability needs.

What you'll do

• Lead complex, high-impact learning solutions from discovery through strategy, design, development, implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a strategic consultant to business leaders by diagnosing performance and capability needs, identifying root causes, and recommending integrated learning or performance solutions.
• Define the learning strategy and architecture for complex initiatives, including modality, sequencing, practice, reinforcement, performance support, measurement, and scalability.
• Design and develop learner- and customer-centered solutions across digital learning, instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, blended learning, performance support, and reinforcement strategies.
• Lead complex, cross-functional learning workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, audiences, locations, modalities, and dependencies; establish priorities, manage risks and tradeoffs, and drive decisions.
• Translate significant business, technology, process, regulatory, and organizational changes into learning, capability, and workforce-readiness strategies.
• Establish and monitor measures of learning effectiveness, workforce readiness, adoption, skill application, and business impact; use qualitative and quantitative data to drive improvements.
• Develop and evolve reusable instructional design frameworks, standards, tools, playbooks, and solution models.
• Provide senior-level design consultation, peer review, coaching, and knowledge sharing to strengthen instructional design capability.
• Partner with learning leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to improve learning operating practices, processes, intake, governance, and scalable delivery models.
• Evaluate and apply emerging learning technologies, AI, simulation, analytics, and digital capabilities based on business value, learner needs, risk, usability, and measurable impact.
• Influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries without direct authority, challenge assumptions, facilitate decisions, and build alignment around learning strategy and outcomes.
• Balance multiple complex and high-visibility priorities in ambiguous and fast-changing environments while maintaining high standards for quality and business impact.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Education, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Seven or more years of professional experience in instructional design, learning experience design, organizational capability, or a related learning role, or equivalent practical experience.
• Three or more years operating in a senior-level capacity, including leading complex learning initiatives, providing peer coaching or knowledge sharing, and managing work from discovery or intake through implementation, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience consulting with business leaders to diagnose performance or capability needs and recommend appropriate learning or performance solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional learning initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information and translate findings into actionable recommendations tied to workforce or business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex stakeholder environments while influencing decisions without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience developing learning strategies, reusable design frameworks, standards, playbooks, or scalable solution models.
• Experience with learning technology, simulation, AI-enabled learning tools, learning analytics, or other digital capabilities.
• Experience designing learning solutions within financial services, wealth management, or another highly regulated industry.
• ATD, CPTD/CPLP, or comparable learning or instructional design credentials.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Reports to the ID Manager, Learning and Development.
• Individual contributor role.