Instructional Designer, TRM Academy

As an Instructional Designer at TRM Labs, you design and build the courses, certifications and learning paths that teach law enforcement, regulators, financial institutions and crypto businesses to detect, investigate and disrupt crypto-enabled crime. You turn the expertise of TRM's intelligence, policy and compliance teams into published, assessment-backed training across self-paced courses, live sessions and product documentation, in multiple languages.

What you'll do

• Design learning pathways for a widening range of learners, turning the Academy's catalog into clear paths through self-paced courses, live sessions and scenario-based assessments for investigators, compliance teams, regulators and other audiences TRM serves.
• Keep TRM's certifications accurate and defensible by running the review cycle for certification programs, routing content and exam items to subject-matter experts for sign-off, checking figures and citations against their sources, and updating courses quickly when source material changes.
• Turn expert knowledge into strong training by coaching subject-matter experts with editorial feedback so their expertise becomes clear, well-built courses, hands-on exercises and trainer toolkits for live delivery.
• Co-own product documentation and training across TRM's platforms to keep help content, onboarding and product training accurate and in step with releases.
• Deliver content in multiple languages without losing accuracy by running the localization workflow: first-draft translation, native-speaker review and subject-matter expert sign-off for technical and regulatory material.
• Make the team faster and prove the training works by drafting with AI and owning verification so no unsupported figure, source or regulatory detail reaches a learner, building reusable workflows the Academy adopts, and measuring both build time saved and learner outcomes beyond completions.

What you bring

• 3 to 5+ years of instructional design or curriculum development for adult learners, with a portfolio of published, assessment-backed courses.
• Experience building on an LMS and writing valid assessments and item banks.
• Ability to translate technical subject-matter content into curriculum.
• Production AI fluency: you already use AI daily to draft content, generate assessment items and speed up build and research workflows.
• Readiness to build reusable AI workflows others adopt, including item generation checked against source and module-versus-new-intelligence comparisons, and to own the human verification step.
• Excellent written communication and a track record owning courses end-to-end as the single accountable owner.

Nice to have

• Crypto, blockchain, compliance or financial-crime familiarity.

What we offer

• Base salary of $155,000-$175,000.
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan.
• Distributed role with no onsite requirements; business hours with overlap across US time zones for internal syncs and content reviews.
• Minimal travel; occasional travel for team or customer content sessions if needed.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo and others, providing AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London and Singapore.