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instructional design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 52+ instructional design jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 15 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, Spring Health, and L3Harris Technologies.

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9-day fortnights 6
compressed weeks 2
generous PTO 5
unlimited PTO 16
best places to work 17

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Dedicated Clinical Trainer

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Spring Health · Remote · Atlanta, GA, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $92k

Underwriting Training and Development Specialist (Speciality Lines)

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Ledgebrook · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$75k – $100k

Senior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

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Sysdig · Remote · Italy

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

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Principal Solutions Portfolio Lead, Cloud and Security

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Pluralsight · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$133k – $175k

UPLIZNA Senior Manager, Training NMOSD & gMG

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Amgen · Remote · Aurora, IL +3 more

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$157k – $212k

Sr. Manager, RDBU L&P, Training Lead - TAVNEOS & Dazodalibep (DAZ)

Amgen · Remote · Chicago, IL, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$157k – $212k

Senior Director, Revenue Enablement

Salesloft · Remote · USA

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

Sr. Specialist, Learning & Development

Merck · Remote · North Wales, PA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$129k – $203k

Mortgage Technical Enablement Manager

Ocrolus · Remote · New York, NY, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k

Sales Enablement Specialist

1mo

Muck Rack · Remote · USA or Canada

68 · GoodGenerous PTO$65k – $75k

Senior Manager, Supply Enablement

16d

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$192k – $235k

Sales Enablement Manager

1mo

Khan Academy · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodSummer Fridays$97k – $121k

Clinical Instructional Designer

23d

Spring Health · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $92k

Senior Technical Trainer- Security

28d

Huntress · Remote · USA

60 · GoodBest Place to Work$105k – $140k

Senior Instructional Designer

1mo

Fivetran · Remote · North Carolina or Missouri

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$161k – $202k

AI Learning Experience Designer (AI-LXD)

1mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

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

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

2mo

Mitratech · Remote · Mexico

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Sr. Learning Experience Designer

2mo

Mitratech · Remote · Canada

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$85k – $105k

Senior Training Specialist

2mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

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

Program Training Manager - Northern VA

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Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Fairfax, VA, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181kPro · early access

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Employers hiring for Instructional Design on this page include Esri, Spring Health, and L3Harris Technologies. 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 52 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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Browse 52+ instructional design jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 15 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, Spring Health, and L3Harris Technologies.

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