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instructional design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 51+ instructional design jobs at companies offering compressed weeks and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 17 new this week. Hiring companies include Sysdig, Samsara, and Spring Health.

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generous PTO 5
unlimited PTO 13
best places to work 13

Updated September 23, 2026

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Sales Enablement Manager (Dublin, CA or USA Remote)

SavvyMoney · Remote · USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays$110k – $125k

Program Manager, Product & GTM Enablement

Greenhouse Software · Remote · USA

63 · GoodBest Place to Work$88k – $102k

Learning & Development Specialist - Fraud / Disputes

Mercury · Remote · Canada or USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$96k – $133k

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Sales Enablement Manager

VulnCheck · Remote · Massachusetts, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Junior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

11d

Sysdig · Remote · Spain or Costa Rica

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Dedicated Clinical Trainer

22d

Spring Health · Remote · Atlanta, GA, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $92k

Clinical Instructional Designer

1mo

Spring Health · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $92k

Senior Curriculum Eng/Technologist

12d

MongoDB · Remote · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Junior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

12d

Sysdig · Remote · Italy

57 · GoodBest Place to Work€29k – €36k

Mortgage Technical Enablement Manager

1mo

Ocrolus · Remote · New York, NY, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$140k – $170k

Associate Director, HIV Regional Trainer

18d

Merck · Remote · North Wales, PA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Director, Revenue Enablement

25d

Salesloft · Remote · USA

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$183k – $210k

Senior Scaled Customer Education Specialist

19d

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$81k – $122k

Senior Product Training Specialist

19d

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$81k – $122k

Senior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

20d

Sysdig · Remote · Spain

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

AI Learning Experience Designer (AI-LXD)

2mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$96k – $129k

Senior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

20d

Sysdig · Remote · Italy

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Training Specialist

3mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$81k – $122k

Technical Learning and Development Specialist III

NEW

10h

Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Onsite · Pasadena, CA, USA

68 · Good9 Day Fortnight$96k – $123kPro · early access

Specialist, Technical Trainer

NEW

L3Harris Technologies · Onsite · Rochester, NY, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$64k – $118kPro · early access

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Employers hiring for Instructional Design on this page include Sysdig, Samsara, and Spring Health. Instructional Design roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Instructional Design is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Instructional Design roles span the full seniority range — we list 49 open roles requiring Instructional Design across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Instructional Design hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Instructional Design roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Instructional Design candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Instructional Design on current listings.

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instructional design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 51+ instructional design jobs at companies offering compressed weeks and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 17 new this week. Hiring companies include Sysdig, Samsara, and Spring Health.

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