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Instructional Designer SpecialistAbout the Role
Join Parexel's innovative Instructional Design team and make a real impact on how we deliver training solutions to our clients. As an Instructional Designer, you'll create engaging, instructionally sound learning content that drives business results and enhances how Parexel serves its clients. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise in a collaborative environment where you'll work on meaningful projects while being mentored by senior professionals.
What You'll Do
Instructional Design & Development
- Design and develop high-quality training deliverables across multiple modalities that exceed client expectations
- Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to extract key insights and create compelling learning content
- Apply adult learning principles and instructional design best practices to solve real business challenges
- Stay current with cutting-edge tools and methodologies, contributing innovative ideas to improve designs
- Perform quality assurance on all deliverables to ensure they meet TDS standards and client requirements
Design Management & Client Collaboration
- Build strong relationships with clients and SMEs, managing interactions professionally and keeping stakeholders engaged throughout the development cycle
- Communicate effectively with design leads about project progress, risks, and questions
- Identify and escalate potential risks early, working with your manager and design leads to implement mitigation strategies
- Contribute to a collaborative project environment that values clear communication and proactive problem-solving
Graphic Design & Visual Excellence
- Create visually compelling and functionally effective learning materials
- Provide graphical and design consultation to support innovative training solutions
- Ensure all visual and functional aspects of learning deliverables align with TDS standards and client needs
Who You Are
- Experience: 2-4 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent with a Master's degree and 0-2 years of experience)
- Background: Instructional design, graphic design, editorial design, or training experience
- Skills You Bring:
- Excellent graphic development and instructional development capabilities
- Proficiency in developing learning across multiple modalities
- Strong technical writing skills
- High attention to quality and detail
- Creative problem-solving mindset with ability to design solutions that exceed expectations
- Ability to navigate ambiguity on medium to large-scope projects
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams
- Solid understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Education, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
Why Join Us
- Mentorship & Growth: Work closely with experienced professionals who are invested in your development
- Meaningful Work: Create learning solutions that directly impact how Parexel serves its clients
- Diverse Projects: Work across various project types and modalities to build a well-rounded skillset
- Collaborative Culture: Be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and professional development
- Career Development: Build core competencies that position you for advancement within the instructional design field
Nice to Have
- Self-directed approach to professional development and tool mastery
- Experience with emerging learning technologies and platforms
- Portfolio demonstrating instructional design or graphic design work
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience with a Master's degree and 0-2 years of experience
- Experience in instructional design, graphic design, editorial design, or training
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Education, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Graphic development and instructional development capabilities
- Experience developing learning across multiple modalities
- Strong technical writing skills
- High attention to quality and detail
- Creative problem-solving ability
- Ability to navigate ambiguity on medium- to large-scope projects
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies
- Self-directed professional development and tool mastery
- Experience with emerging learning technologies and platforms
- Portfolio demonstrating instructional design or graphic design work
Parexel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parexel and has not been reviewed or approved by Parexel.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA options, and company-paid disability insurance. Descriptions often portray the package as strong or “top notch,” adding meaningful value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company matching and, in some regions, generous pension contributions. Core financial protections are emphasized as a solid part of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include ample PTO or flexible/unlimited RTO alongside flexible schedules and remote/hybrid options. Work-life balance support from managers is highlighted as a practical advantage.
Parexel Insights
What We Do
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com. Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are: • Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming. We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.
