instructional design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$105k – $140k

Senior Instructional Designer

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$105k – $140k

Sales Enablement Specialist

16d

Muck Rack

RemoteUSA or Canada

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$65k – $75k

Context Engineer

1mo

PostHog

RemoteUSA

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Sales Enablement Manager

16d

Khan Academy

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good4 day week during Summer$97k – $121k

Senior Partner Enablement Manager

1mo

Twilio

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $155k

Director, Learning and Development - Operations

20d

SoFi

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Instructional Designer

22d

Fivetran

RemoteUSA or Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$161k – $202k

Manager, Sales Enablement - Learning Design

1mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$96k – $129k

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

1mo

RemoteMexico

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

1mo

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$85k – $105k

Senior Training Specialist

2mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$81k – $108k

Director, Field Onboarding

2mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$114k – $203k

Instructional Designer

EliseAI

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $145k

Learning and Development Design Consultant

Scottish Government

HybridDundee, UK

71 · GreatCompressed week

Instructional Designer

HybridSeattle, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$85k – $101k

Staff Program Manager, Technical Education

Airbnb

HybridSan Francisco, USA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$154k – $192k

Organizational and Talent Development Specialist

Rice University

HybridHouston, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$85k – $92k

Open & Interdisciplinary Research Support Program Operations Specialist

HybridSeattle, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$76k – $99k

Learning & Development Specialist

FareHarbor

HybridAmsterdam, Netherlands

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Content & Learning Experience Manager

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

HybridBoston, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$80k – $120k

Technical Learning and Development Specialist IV

17d

OnsitePasadena, USA

68 · Good9 day fortnight$124k – $154k

Sales Enablement Manager

10d

Arketa

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$100k – $120k

Sales Enablement Manager

2mo

Canary Technologies

HybridNew York, USA

64 · GoodRotating 4 day week$107k – $120k

Instructional Designer

13d

Arizona State University

HybridGlendale, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$52k – $68k

Instructional Designer

10d

iCapital

OnsiteSalt Lake City or Colorado Springs

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Multimedia Designer

1mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Senior GTM Enablement Specialist ll

20d

Apollo.io

OnsiteManila, Philippines

59 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Change Management Lead

23d

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Global Onboarding Lead

24d

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$124k – $186k

Associate Sales Trainer

24d

Enova International

HybridDenver, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$72k – $110k

Operations Learning & Development Specialist

24d

Marqeta

HybridWarsaw, Poland

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTOzł 117k – zł 147k

Learning Experience Designer

1mo

Lucid Software

HybridSalt Lake City, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Enablement Manager

1mo

AlertMedia

HybridAustin, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridVienna, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridOlympia, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridMinneapolis, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Head of Program Design

27d

Braven

HybridAtlanta +3 more

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Learning Architect

27d

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO€50k – €70k

Technical Instructor

28d

HybridPalo Alto, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Talent Development Partner

1mo

Gainsight

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Product Instructor – Curriculum & Platform Education

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Product Trainer

2mo

LogicMonitor

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Instructional Designer

2mo

HybridPalo Alto, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Product Manager - Customer Education

3mo

Basis

OnsiteNew York, USA

56 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$125k – $250k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridDenver or Louisville

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Instructional Design on this page include Esri, Samsara, and Workato. 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 57 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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Program Designer, Curriculum

Merit America

RemoteUSA

94 · Excellent4 day week100% pay$102k

Clinical Instructional Designer

Spring Health

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$80k – $92k

Director of Commercial Learning and Development

Biogen

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$178k – $245k

Senior Technical Trainer- Security

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$105k – $140k

Senior Instructional Designer

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$105k – $140k

Sales Enablement Specialist

16d

Muck Rack

RemoteUSA or Canada

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$65k – $75k

Context Engineer

1mo

PostHog

RemoteUSA

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Sales Enablement Manager

16d

Khan Academy

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good4 day week during Summer$97k – $121k

Senior Partner Enablement Manager

1mo

Twilio

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $155k

Director, Learning and Development - Operations

20d

SoFi

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Instructional Designer

22d

Fivetran

RemoteUSA or Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$161k – $202k

Manager, Sales Enablement - Learning Design

1mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$96k – $129k

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

1mo

RemoteMexico

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

1mo

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$85k – $105k

Senior Training Specialist

2mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$81k – $108k

Director, Field Onboarding

2mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$114k – $203k

Instructional Designer

EliseAI

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $145k

Learning and Development Design Consultant

Scottish Government

HybridDundee, UK

71 · GreatCompressed week

Instructional Designer

HybridSeattle, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$85k – $101k

Staff Program Manager, Technical Education

Airbnb

HybridSan Francisco, USA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$154k – $192k

Organizational and Talent Development Specialist

Rice University

HybridHouston, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$85k – $92k

Open & Interdisciplinary Research Support Program Operations Specialist

HybridSeattle, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$76k – $99k

Learning & Development Specialist

FareHarbor

HybridAmsterdam, Netherlands

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Content & Learning Experience Manager

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

HybridBoston, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$80k – $120k

Technical Learning and Development Specialist IV

17d

OnsitePasadena, USA

68 · Good9 day fortnight$124k – $154k

Sales Enablement Manager

10d

Arketa

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$100k – $120k

Sales Enablement Manager

2mo

Canary Technologies

HybridNew York, USA

64 · GoodRotating 4 day week$107k – $120k

Instructional Designer

13d

Arizona State University

HybridGlendale, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$52k – $68k

Instructional Designer

10d

iCapital

OnsiteSalt Lake City or Colorado Springs

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Multimedia Designer

1mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Senior GTM Enablement Specialist ll

20d

Apollo.io

OnsiteManila, Philippines

59 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Change Management Lead

23d

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Global Onboarding Lead

24d

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$124k – $186k

Associate Sales Trainer

24d

Enova International

HybridDenver, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$72k – $110k

Operations Learning & Development Specialist

24d

Marqeta

HybridWarsaw, Poland

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTOzł 117k – zł 147k

Learning Experience Designer

1mo

Lucid Software

HybridSalt Lake City, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Enablement Manager

1mo

AlertMedia

HybridAustin, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridVienna, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridOlympia, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridMinneapolis, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Head of Program Design

27d

Braven

HybridAtlanta +3 more

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Learning Architect

27d

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO€50k – €70k

Technical Instructor

28d

HybridPalo Alto, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Talent Development Partner

1mo

Gainsight

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Product Instructor – Curriculum & Platform Education

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Product Trainer

2mo

LogicMonitor

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Instructional Designer

2mo

HybridPalo Alto, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Product Manager - Customer Education

3mo

Basis

OnsiteNew York, USA

56 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$125k – $250k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d

HybridDenver or Louisville

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$73k – $109k

Sr. Instructional Designer

17d