Instructional Design Manager

BELFAST, United KingdomPosted Jul 16, 2026
As with all members of the Citi team, the Instructional Design Manager is responsible for bringing our firm's Leadership Principles to life every day. At Citi, We Take Ownership and challenge one another to a higher standard in everything we do. We Deliver with Pride, striving for client excellence, controls excellence, and operational excellence. And we recognize We Succeed Together by valuing and learning from different perspectives to surpass stakeholder expectations. The Instructional Design Manager is responsible for a team of Instructional Designers within the Instructional Design arm of the Citi Learning organization. This individual will report directly to the head of Instructional Design and will be primarily responsible for equipping their team members with the skills, knowledge, and tools to deliver functional excellence for Citi's Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) organization. A successful Instructional Design Manager is a strategic, servant leader who inspires and motivates others. They are authentic, self-aware, highly collaborative, and foster a culture that rewards being courageous, enables risk taking, and cultivates trust and psychological safety. They embrace the Learning team's mission of elevating capability and performance. They promote an Agile mindset, making personal growth and development a priority for both themselves and their teams. Day to day, the Instructional Design Manager leads a team that designs and builds high-impact, compliant, and scalable learning solutions, spanning traditional and adaptive web-based training engineered in industry-standard authoring tools such as dominKnow and Area9 Rhapsode. They champion the purposeful use of generative AI and modern learning technology to increase efficiency and impact, while safeguarding quality, accessibility, and governance in a complex, highly regulated environment. Responsibilities include: * Lead a team of Instructional Designers in the development of performance-based, digital learning solutions (web-based training, adaptive learning modules, simulations, job aids, and other training materials) * Assess design and development staff capability, identifying and coaching to skill strengths and gaps to improve the overall performance of the team * Provide direction to Instructional Designers and help remove environmental obstacles that impede work execution * Provide technical oversight for the process of creating eLearning and other digital solutions, including some hands-on development as needed, and champion the purposeful use of standard authoring tools (dominKnow & Area9 Rhapsode) and generative AI tools to increase efficiency and impact * Evaluate quality of learning solutions produced, ensuring consistency with Citi's learning design standards, accessibility practices, and governance, and providing coaching and guidance to the team as needed * Oversee intake, scoping, and resource planning across a high volume of enterprise design requests using a tiered service model, while monitoring team KPIs (turnaround times, efficiency metrics) and proactively addressing risk, bottlenecks, and audit-readiness gaps * Build and maintain strong relationships across Citi Learning and with business stakeholders, serving as a primary instructional design point of contact for Learning Advisors and for Digital Learning Governance, to develop and deliver effective learning strategies and solutions that achieve business objectives * Help team adopt industry-recognized capability standards and best practices * Conduct performance reviews and recruit, interview, and hire design and development talent as needed Candidates should have proven experience in or significant knowledge of all or most of the following: * Instructional design, learning technology, and adult education approaches, tools, and philosophies * People management * Performance management * Coaching and feedback * Operations management * Agile...

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