Job Details
- Job Location: San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
- Salary Range: $74,000 - $78,000 per year
- Department: eLearning
- Position: Instructional Designer / Course Design
- Reports to: Director, eLearning
- Schedule: Full time, Pacific Time (PT) hours
- Location: Remote (U.S.)
- Pay range: $74,000 to $78,000 per year, based on experience
About GGU
- Golden Gate University is the world's first AI-native, global, multilingual university: built for working adults, anchored in San Francisco at the heart of the AI economy.
- GGU was founded for working adults 125 years ago.
- Today every program teaches AI inside the discipline, so graduates use it as a tool of their trade.
About the role
- You design and redevelop GGU courses and programs in D2L Brightspace and Edvisor.ai. Many are AI-graded and some are uncapped, so they need real interaction and depth.
- Your focus is active learning and regular and substantive interaction (RSI).
- When AI handles the grading, you work out where the instructor shows up, embed RSI into each course and design interactive content that is accessible from the start.
- You’ll join a collaborative remote team that brings a “yes, let’s figure out how” approach to solving problems.
- We draw on our skills, experience and creativity to work with faculty and university leadership to improve online learning and shape its future in the age of AI.
- This role calls for initiative, flexibility and persistence.
- Our team is growing, our processes are evolving, and responsibilities may shift as new needs emerge.
- You’ll contribute your expertise, support shared priorities and help develop how we work.
- If you enjoy turning ideas into action and building solutions with others, you’ll have a voice in what we create and how we get there.
Key responsibilities
- Design and redevelop courses
- Design new courses and redevelop existing ones across D2L Brightspace and Edvisor.ai.
- Review existing courses and decide what to keep, revise, replace or retire.
- Develop new content, activities, assessments and faculty materials, even from limited sources.
- Outcomes and alignment
- Write course and weekly outcomes and topics, and align them with assessments and activities.
- Organize content into a clear, consistent weekly or modular structure.
- Interactive content and accessibility
- Design interactive content: discussions, live sessions, case work and peer activities.
- Apply WCAG 2.1 AA and UDL so every student has equitable access and more than one way to engage.
- Regular and substantive interaction (RSI)
- Embed RSI in every course, even when AI handles the grading.
- Find and test new ways for faculty to interact with students in AI-graded and uncapped courses.
- Give faculty presence tools, such as feedback templates, weekly touchpoints and office hours plans.
- Course builds and quality
- Use generative AI in design and development, and validate every AI draft.
- Build and maintain courses in Brightspace and Edvisor.ai using GGU templates and design standards.
- Review courses for usability, accessibility and quality before launch.
- Troubleshoot course-level issues and coordinate with LMS support when needed.
- Faculty, evaluation and team
- Partner with faculty and subject matter experts on course goals, content and priorities.
- Evaluate courses with student, assessment and engagement data, and recommend improvements.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines, and help write and update our SOPs.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications: What you bring
- Required
- Five or more years of instructional design experience, preferably in higher education.
- Teaching experience, ideally at the college level.
- Experience designing aligned online courses