Description

The Opportunity

Cornell University is seeking an Instructional Designer – Learning Technologies to help faculty adapt teaching and learning for the AI era.

In this highly collaborative role, you will partner directly with faculty to design courses, integrate AI-focused emerging technologies , and enhance student learning experiences. You’ll serve as both a consultant and innovator, helping instructors navigate evolving tools, redesign assessments, and experiment with new approaches to teaching in an AI-driven landscape.

This role sits within the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI)—a dynamic team dedicated to advancing evidence-based, student-centered learning at Cornell.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and implement instructional technology strategies across diverse academic programs and initiatives. 
• Analyze faculty and staff satisfaction to identify and track evolving technology needs. 
• Collaborate with clients to address teaching-related technology issues, including pedagogy, application assessment, and integration strategies. 
• Consult with learning technology teams to develop tailored solutions for academic units and departments. 
• Conduct research and devise creative workarounds to resolve complex instructional technology challenges. 
• Serve as instructional design lead for specific AI learning technology uses when needed. 
• Serve as instructional design lead for specific learning technology services as needed.
• Research and pilot emerging AI technologies, partnering with faculty to ensure classroom tools remain current and relevant.

About the Department 

The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is a unit in the Office of the Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation (VPAI).  The CTI’s mission is to partner with the Cornell teaching community to explore and foster inclusive, evidence-based teaching practices. We facilitate the development of vibrant, challenging, and reflective student-centered learning experiences. Our vision is a Cornell teaching community that embraces the research on learning, catalyzes innovative instructional practices, and creates learning environments where every student can thrive.

What We Need

• Bachelor’s degree with 3-5 years of instructional design experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong knowledge of current and emerging learning technologies focused on AI used for teaching and learning.
• Must have sophisticated problem-solving abilities, facilitation, analytical, reasoning and judgment skills.
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to obtain and convey service information to people of varying levels of technical knowledge and responsibility is essential.
• Experience consulting with faculty-instructors on instructional technology issues and to recommend appropriate technology solutions.
• Knowledge of current educational technology practices, theories, and emerging trends and technologies that support teaching and learning.
• Ability to identify-recommend appropriate instructional technologies
• Must be able to work effectively in a dynamic, deadline driven, complex, team-based environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Able to meet deadlines, manage competing priorities, and highly responsive to requests.
• Highly experienced and proficient with common desktop applications and learning technologies, such as presentation, multi-media and web technologies and adding AI integration into these technologies.
• Experience incorporating the perspectives of multiple communities.   

You will be competitive for this role if you have:

• Experience evaluating tools and confidently advising on what works (and what doesn’t) in the classroom
• A strong consultative approach, with the ability to build trust and partner with faculty at varying levels of technical comfort
• Curiosity and adaptability in a rapidly evolving AI and technology landscape
• Experience designing or redesigning courses, especially with technology integration
• Comfort balancing strategy and hands-on support (e.g., from workshop delivery to troubleshooting LMS issues)
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly in email, meetings, and workshops
• A proactive approach to identifying gaps and bringing forward new tools, ideas, and solutions

If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it’s ok if you don’t.

• Masters’s Degree
• 5+ years of experience in an upper-level academic setting.
• Experience with quantitative analysis
• Experience with planning and coordinating events

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Employees typically perform this role remotely 2 days per week and on-campus 3 days per week. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.
• Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, and sustainability.
• Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell.
• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell
• Cornell’s impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell
• Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell:

Total Rewards | Working at Cornell.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

University Job Title:

Instructional Tech Spec III   

Job Family:

Information Technology

Level:

F

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$76,354.00 – $88,735.00

Remote Option Availability:

Hybrid   

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Freddie Salley   

Contact Email:

fls55@cornell.edu

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2026-06-11