Instructional Design Specialist

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About the role

  • Instructional Design Specialist designing AI-assisted learning programs for Thumbtack’s home-services marketplace. Improving frontline performance through scalable training, evaluation, and multimedia content.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain engaging and effective learning programs that drive performance and business outcomes
  • Lead end-to-end instructional design for complex, high-impact learning programs from needs analysis through evaluation
  • Design learning ecosystems using social, experiential, and digital reinforcement aligned with the 70/20/10 model
  • Apply Action Mapping and performance consulting techniques to drive measurable behavior change
  • Partner with subject matter experts, project managers, frontline leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Translate business goals into learning strategies, surface performance gaps, and articulate instructional tradeoffs
  • Develop assessments and evaluation plans, analyzing outcomes across Kirkpatrick Levels 1–3
  • Contribute to content governance, peer review, instructional design standards, and maintenance of existing learning programs
  • Use Claude/OpenAI and other AI tools to create and iterate asynchronous learning content
  • Create basic multimedia assets, including screen recordings, short-form video, and AI-assisted voiceover content

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of experience in instructional design, curriculum development, or performance consulting, preferably in a high-growth tech or call center environment
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex learning programs and a variety of instructional modalities
  • Solid expertise in instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, SAM) and adult learning theory, with working knowledge of Action Mapping or performance consulting approaches
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude/OpenAI) to build asynchronous learning content; builder-level fluency preferred
  • Strong project management and stakeholder partnership skills, with the ability to independently own projects from needs analysis through evaluation
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Ops and communicate design rationale clearly
  • Commitment to continuous improvement, experimentation, and high-quality design standards
  • Ability to work from Ontario or British Columbia
  • Must answer employment visa sponsorship question during application

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$84,200 - CA$108,900 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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