Instructional Designer & Content Lead
Contract • 2–3 days/week • Day rate • Bondi Junction / hybrid
Overview
Most workplace safety training is something people click through and forget.
Arya builds the kind they remember — online safety awareness courses for frontline staff working in iconic high-stakes environments — where what someone recalls under pressure can change the outcome of a potentially dangerous event.
We do it through storytelling simulations. Grounded, empathetic narrative — not bullet points and compliance quizzes — because that's how people actually learn, and remember.
We're looking for an instructional designer who thinks the same way: someone who can take a confronting, high-stakes subject and turn it into a learning experience people carry with them, confidently.
- 2–3 days a week
- Day rate, commensurate with experience — 12-month contract with genuine scope to grow and build a team
- Hybrid workplace (Bondi Junction / home office)
Why this role exists
Our recent “Escape. Hide. Tell.” program is the kind of work you'll be doing. We're a small, rapid-growing Australian startup already working with commercial clients and community non-profits across Australia, the US, Canada and Europe — and this role is the person who designs and delivers that work, starting mid-late August 2026.
What you'll own
This is a hands-on, end-to-end role. You'll take each course from discovery through to launch:
- Discovery and strategy — run workshops with internal teams or clients to understand their environment and define the learning goals that matter.
- Design and build — turn abstract safety concepts into relatable, memorable narrative experiences, built in Articulate Rise 360 and Storyline.
- Publish and deploy — package courses (SCORM) and see them live in learning platforms.
- Project delivery — own the budget, timeline and stakeholder relationships from kickoff to sign-off.
- Creative lead — brief and manage a bench of freelance designers and creatives, holding every deliverable to our quality standards.
- Judgment on sensitive content — handle high-stakes, sometimes confronting subject matter with nuance.
You'll work directly with the founder and leadership team, and you'll shape how Arya tells stories at scale — not execute someone else's brief.
What you'll need
Essential:
- 3+ years in learning design, instructional design or a closely related field.
- Hands-on build experience with Articulate Rise 360 / Storyline or equivalent.
- SCORM packaging and LMS deployment experience.
- Professional workshop facilitation and client-facing skills.
- A storyteller's instinct — you think in narrative, not just content structure.
- Proven ability to run a project end-to-end: budget, timeline, freelancers, stakeholders.
- AI-native ways of working — AI tools are woven into how you research, script, prototype and produce.
Bonus points for:
- Agency or consultancy experience.
- Experience managing freelancers or small teams.
- A commercial mindset and comfort in a fast-moving startup.
Why you'll love it
- Real ownership. You shape the process and the product, not slot into one that's already decided.
- Work that matters. Your courses are used by real people, in real high-stakes places, around the world.
- Room to grow. As Arya scales, this role has genuine potential to become bigger and longer-term.
- Flexibility. 2-3 days a week, structured around your life, with additional paid days as projects require.
How to apply
Send us
- Your CV and day rate
- One example of a course or learning experience you built (a link, screen recording or walkthrough) and 3–4 sentences on the story it told, the problem it solved, and how you measured whether it worked. If AI played a part in how you made it, tell us how.
This is a contractor engagement — you'll need your own ABN, ideally through a company (Pty Ltd) structure.
Apply to
[email protected] by 1 August 2026.
We review applications as they arrive — don't wait for the deadline.
📌 Instructional Designer & Content Lead (Bondi Junction)
🏢 Arya
📍 Bondi Junction