A full-time, remote Course Creator role just opened, paying around $58,000 a year, open to candidates anywhere. A bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, or a related field is required, along with 18 months of experience creating structured online course content.
What the Role Covers
- Design curricula and learning materials from scratch
- Produce videos and assessments for each course
- Publish and update courses on the employer's online learning platform
Building one course usually means touching several different skill sets in the same week. Monday might be outlining a module's learning objectives. Wednesday might be scripting and filming a lesson video. Friday might be building out a quiz that actually tests whether the material landed, not just whether someone watched the video. Attention to detail matters throughout, since a small error in an early module tends to compound by the time a student reaches module six.
Skills and Background
Familiarity with course platforms is commonly expected going in. The core skills this role is built around:
- Instructional design
- Video editing
- Working knowledge of learning management systems
- Curriculum development
- Subject-matter expertise in whatever field the courses cover
Experience with a specific platform, Teachable, Thinkific, or an internal LMS, tends to shorten onboarding. Naukri Mitra also sees candidates come in with a straight subject-matter background who pick up instructional design and video editing on the job, which works fine as long as the fundamentals are solid.
Pay and Benefits
This role pays roughly $58,000 annually in USD for full-time remote work. Health insurance, paid time off, and remote-work flexibility are standard here. Freelance arrangements are common in course creation more broadly, though this particular listing is for a salaried position, and many employers in this field pair performance reviews with merit-based raises rather than leaving pay static year over year.
The Part That Takes Getting Used To
Unlike teaching a live class, course creation work is mostly solitary and mostly asynchronous. There's no room full of students reacting to a lesson in real time, just a script, a camera, and the assumption that it's landing the way it's supposed to. Some people find that liberating. Others miss the immediate feedback of a classroom and need to build in other ways to check whether their material is actually working, usually through completion data and learner surveys once a course goes live.
Applying
Send a resume along with samples of course content or videos you've produced, if available. Mention the platforms you've published on and your subject-matter background specifically. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
