Instructional Designer & Assessment Specialist ✍🏽🧠📘 (Recruiting, Hiring Assessments, Job Descriptions | Instructional Designer, Technical Writer, Content Strategist | Startup| Remote)

About the Company

We're a remote recruiting agency committed to systemic change. Our mission: help 1 million women from emerging economies gain financial independence.

We connect exceptional professionals from emerging economies with North American, European, and Australian businesses, offering up to 80% cost savings compared to domestic hiring. Our rigorous multi-stage assessment process ensures quality, resulting in a 93% one-year retention rate.

Beyond placement, our Talent Accelerator develops hired talent through peer mastermind groups, CEO coaching, and hands-on workshops—addressing real manager feedback and building skills in business thinking, stakeholder management, automation, AI, and technology. Our clients range from fast-growing startups to established SMBs across sales, marketing, finance, operations, customer success, product, and technology roles.

In 4 years, we've placed ~400+ women from 23 countries across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, building a global community of 1,000+ women through word-of-mouth growth. We're evolving from a high-touch service into a tech-enabled platform that scales our impact.

OUR COMPANY VALUES guide our team and shape our culture: 

• 🚀High-Impact Thinking: We prioritize high-impact initiatives and execute them efficiently to drive long-term value.
• 🎯 Owning the Outcome: We take full responsibility for results, removing obstacles and solving problems to deliver what we commit to.  
• ⚡ Balancing Speed + Precision: We balance urgent action with careful execution, prioritizing thoughtfully to achieve both speed and excellence.  
• 🌱 Hungry for Growth: We continuously seek personal and professional growth, using work as a platform for constant improvement.  
• 🧭 Unshakeable Integrity: We maintain the highest standards of honesty, transparency, and ethical behavior in all our actions.  
• ❤️ Deep Care: We show genuine care for our team, clients, and work quality, leading with empathy and passion.  

We're headquartered in Canada, with a female-majority team of 15 members across Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, India, Indonesia and Kenya. Our culture is fresh, fun, and high-performing – supportive, solutions-focused, and committed to both growth and wellness.

About the Role

We're looking for a remote Instructional Designer & Assessment Specialist to create job descriptions, hiring assessments, workshop materials, and marketing copy that power our global recruitment engine and talent development programs.

You'll work across diverse roles (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations), industries, and experience levels—including domains you've never encountered before. You'll translate client transcripts into hiring kits (job descriptions like this one, sourcing notes, interview questions, multi-hour practical tests), design learning materials for monthly workshops, and write marketing copy. 

Using AI tools and prompt/context engineering approaches, you'll accelerate work while refining outputs with sharp editorial judgment. Job descriptions take 2-3 hours, practical tests take 3-4 hours. Your work directly influences candidate experience, employer satisfaction, assessment accuracy, and talent growth.

Our IDEAL CANDIDATE brings 3-5 years of experience as an Instructional Designer, Learning Designer, Technical Writer, Content Strategist, or Assessment Designer. You have exceptional English writing across business-facing, technical-facing, marketing, and instructional contexts. You have strong analytical and technical comprehension—you can understand complex domains (software engineering, data engineering, AI) even without prior experience. You're an exceptional synthesizer who extracts insights from nuanced conversations and translates ambiguity into crisp documents. You're proficient with AI tools (especially Claude.AI) and know when human judgment is essential. You bring intellectual curiosity, comfort with ambiguity, and confidence to learn rapidly rather than already knowing everything. You have high emotional intelligence for reading between the lines, take ownership, and thrive under pressure. Most importantly, you align with our feminist values and mission of creating equitable opportunities for global talent.

Your performance will be measured by content quality (hiring materials, workshops, marketing), accuracy to client requirements, turnaround time, and stakeholder satisfaction.

You’ll work closely with our Co‑Founder, Campaign Strategists, Recruiters, and Operations team. This position reports directly to the Co‑Founder.

You'll be doing things like:

• Hiring Content Development (~70% of role): Translating client call transcripts into job descriptions and hiring kits (2-3 hours each); extracting competencies from client conversations; creating practical tests with scenarios and scoring rubrics (3-4 hours each); structuring information to guide recruiters and employers; working across diverse roles (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations), industries, and experience levels—including unfamiliar roles; using Claude.AI and internal prompts to accelerate drafting; writing sharp business-facing and technical-facing copy; learning quickly; improving prompts to streamline workflows.
• Workshop & Learning Design: Designing learning materials for monthly skill-building workshops (AI fundamentals, prioritization, systems thinking, automation, professional development); collaborating with Founders to shape themes and learning pathways; creating slide decks, worksheets, scripts, prompts, and exercises; updating content based on participant feedback and industry trends.
• Marketing Copywriting: Writing copy for marketing channels (emails, social posts, landing pages); translating complex ideas into clear, inspiring narratives; creating employer-facing and talent-facing communication assets.
• Content Systems & Quality Control: Maintaining templates and ensuring consistent formatting; using AI tools to accelerate drafting while refining outputs with strong editorial judgment; improving prompts and workflows; ensuring readability, consistency, and strong writing craft across all assets.
• Strategic Collaboration & Improvement: Collaborating with Founders, Campaign Strategists, Recruiters, and Compensation Analysts to incorporate feedback and ensure alignment; documenting learnings; proposing template and process upgrades; spotting patterns in candidate quality; recommending improvements to assessment and development standards.

Skills & Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience in roles like Instructional Designer, Learning Designer, Technical Writer, Content Strategist, Curriculum Developer, Training Designer, Assessment Designer, or similar writing/education-focused roles
• Exceptional English writing with ability to shift tone across contexts (business-facing, technical-facing, marketing, instructional)
• Strong analytical and technical comprehension—ability to deeply understand technical domains (software engineering, data engineering, AI, etc.) even without prior experience, think through complex systems, troubleshoot, and figure out how things work
• Strong proficiency with AI tools (Claude.AI, ChatGPT) and ability to refine outputs with editorial judgment
• Transcript analysis and synthesis—extracting insights and competencies from complex conversations
• Assessment design—creating practical tests, scenarios, scoring rubrics, and evaluation criteria for both technical and non-technical roles
• Learning material design—workshops, slide decks, worksheets, scripts, exercises
• Fast learner—quickly grasping unfamiliar roles, industries, and domains
• High emotional intelligence—interpreting nuanced client signals, tone, and hidden requirements
• Self-directed, detail-oriented, and able to deliver high-quality work under tight timelines across concurrent projects

Bonus if you also have:

• MBA or advanced degree
• Prior exposure to recruiting, HR, people ops, or competency frameworks
• Understanding of assessment design principles (validity, reliability, fairness, bias mitigation)
• Background in e-learning, LMS platforms, or course design
• Experience in startup, SaaS, tech, consulting, or data environments
• Background in marketing copywriting or brand storytelling
• Familiarity with our tools: Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, ClickUp, Claude.AI, Airtable, Calendly, Miro, Figma, Zapier

Positon details 

Employment Type:  Full-time (40 hours/week), Exclusivity Preferred

Working Hours: Fixed, 8AM-4PM Eastern Time Zone; changes with Daylight Savings Time

Education: Undergraduate degree in an intellectually rigorous field, MBA

Level: Intermediate (3-5 years of related work experience)

Compensation: ~USD $447–550 (NGN 650K–800K) per month, based on experience. Structured as a Consultant Agreement (independent contractor), meaning you'll be responsible for your own taxes, benefits, and insurance.

Benefits of working with us: 

• 🚀 Work directly with a forward-thinking Canadian company
• 💅🏾 Female-majority, female-led organization with strong values
• 🤗 Remote-first, inclusive and supportive company culture
• 🏆 Incredibly talented, high-performing teammates
• ✊🏾 Mission-oriented culture with meaningful impact
• 😤 Exciting professional challenges to do your best work of your career
• 🎯 Weekly rituals and routines for clear goal-setting, tracking and unblocking
• 🧘🏾‍♀️ Work-life balance: 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
• ❤️ Mental health days and wellness programs to prioritize individual well-being
• 🌱 Paid support for learning and development in your field

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