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• Overview

  Strategic Advisory Group is hiring a Instructional Designer in San Francisco, CA.

• Role description

  We need a versatile Instructional Designer fluent in Iconography, comfortable with ambiguity, and hungry to do standout work. Bring maker-minded Networking and 4 years to San Francisco, and the return is $96,000 - $138,000, a freelance schedule, and influence that grows.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Stitch fragmented brand assets into a system that scales past Strategic Advisory Group's next phase
  • Pull a coherent palette from a logo three agencies already over-touched
  • Carry layouts from napkin scribble to press-ready file without losing the spark
  • Co-author the creative content calendar with marketing, then make it look effortless
  • Carve a distinct lane for Strategic Advisory Group in a creative space crowded with sameness
  • Choreograph the handoff so nothing customer-obsessed gets lost between studio and dev

  What You'll Bring

  • Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates
  • 5+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
  • Calm under the fun-loving chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
  • A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your creative expertise

  We're Strategic Advisory Group — a quality-obsessed San Francisco, CA outfit that treats Networking less like a feature and more like a craft. Mentorship goes both ways at Strategic Advisory Group, and seniority never means having all the answers.

  Beyond the $96,000 - $138,000 headline, we hand you a mentor, room to grow into mid-level work, and the freedom to shape your own week.

  Refreshed minutes ago, this Instructional Designer req is wide open and taking applications.

  Think you have what it takes? apply now and start the conversation.

• Required skills

  • Brand Identity
  • Service Design
  • Design Systems
  • Illustration
  • Iconography
  • Affinity Diagramming
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Organization
  • Stress Management
  • Networking

• Benefits & perks

  • Accessible workplace design
  • Global emergency assistance
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Green card sponsorship
  • Conference attendance budget
  • Vision insurance
  • Eldercare support
  • Gas and mileage reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sabbatical for long-tenured employees
  • Book Allowance
  • Paid holidays

• Apply before 2026-09-09

  Submit your application for this Freelance creative position.