Senior Instructional Designer
What You Will Do
The Senior Instructional Designer will play a key execution-focused role in supporting the Senior Manager, Instructional Design, by driving team priorities, operational initiatives, and delivering business-critical learning projects.
This is an Individual Contributor (IC) role. The role is expected to demonstrate operational leadership by driving priorities, influencing outcomes, and enabling effective execution across peers and project teams.
This role combines instructional design expertise with strong consulting, stakeholder management, and operational leadership capabilities. The successful candidate will be highly accountable, self-directed, and comfortable operating with minimal supervision while driving projects, solving problems, and influencing outcomes across the Instructional Design team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of high-impact learning solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to analyze needs, recommend solutions, and drive project execution.
- Act as a trusted consultant, effectively engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Support the Instruction Design Manager in driving team priorities, strategic initiatives, and operational excellence programs.
- Identify challenges proactively, recommend solutions, and independently drive issues to resolution.
- Establish effective working practices, streamline workflows, and improve team efficiency.
- Leverage data, metrics, and business insights to support decision-making and continuous improvement
- Support project governance by proactively managing risks, upholding quality standards, and ensuring on-time delivery through effective collaboration.
What We Look For
Experience
- 10 - 14 years of experience in Learning Consulting / Learning Experience Design, and Instructional Design
- Proven experience working with senior business stakeholders in a global environment.
- Demonstrated success leading complex learning projects and operational initiatives.
- Experience influencing teams and driving outcomes without formal authority.
Skills & Competencies
- Excellent communication skills with an objective and professional communication style.
- Strong L&D consulting and performance consulting capabilities.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive presence.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking skills.
- Accountability and ownership mindset.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to manage multiple strategic and operational priorities in parallel.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion when supporting strategic initiatives
- Strong project and process management skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Continuous improvement and operational excellence mindset.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills.
Success in This Role
The ideal candidate:
- Acts as a learning consultant to stakeholders
- Demonstrates exceptional ownership, accountability, and execution discipline.
- Anticipates issues and resolves them proactively.
- Balances strategy and execution effectively.
- Influences outcomes through expertise, credibility, and collaboration rather than formal authority
- Acts as a trusted partner to the Senior Manager Instruction Design and the broader team.
Skills Required
- 10–14 years of experience in learning consulting, learning experience design, and instructional design
- Experience working with senior business stakeholders in a global environment
- Experience leading complex learning projects and operational initiatives
- Experience influencing teams and driving outcomes without formal authority
- Excellent communication skills with an objective and professional communication style
- Strong learning and development consulting and performance consulting capabilities
- Strong stakeholder management and executive presence
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to manage multiple strategic and operational priorities in parallel
- Strong project and process management skills
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills
Johnson Controls Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Johnson Controls and has not been reviewed or approved by Johnson Controls.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of the package through employer 401(k) matching, repeatedly framed as a strong pillar of the overall rewards mix. The matching contribution is described with specific match levels in multiple places, reinforcing perceived value for long-term saving.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as comparatively robust, with multiple paid holiday categories, vacation time, and sick time described as generous or “amazing” in places. Paid time off breadth appears to be a consistent contributor to total rewards attractiveness beyond base pay.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits are described as broad and customizable, spanning standard medical/dental/vision plus optional add-ons like pet insurance, identity protection, and legal support. Tuition reimbursement is repeatedly highlighted as a high-value option supporting professional development.
Johnson Controls Insights
What We Do
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that matter most. Dedicated to protecting the environment, we deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers’ mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco®, York®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, Penn®, Sabroe®, Simplex®, Ansul® and Grinnell®.
