Learning Designer - English

Busuu; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading EdTech company in Greater London is looking for a Learning Designer - English to create engaging content for language learners worldwide. You will design, maintain, and improve English syllabi, collaborate with various teams, and analyze data to enhance learning experiences. Candidates with a Master's in languages or education and strong teaching experience are preferred. This role offers competitive benefits and a flexible hybrid working model.

Benefits

Free breakfast and snacks

2 free lunches per week

Private Health Insurance

Wellness platform access

Personal training budget

Flexible working hours

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Social activities and team events

Qualifications

• Proven experience teaching English as a foreign language.
• Experience creating lesson content and planning your own lessons.
• Interest in AI in education.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve English content for over 120 million learners.
• Collaborate with teams to evolve AI features.
• Analyze learner data to identify content gaps.

Skills

Teaching English as a foreign language

Lesson content planning

Deep understanding of English grammar

Data-driven mindset

Education

Masters-level qualification in languages, linguistics or education

Tools

Content Management System

Job description

Job Description

Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.

Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.

Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

What does a Learning Designer - English do at Busuu?

You’ll work on shaping an impactful language learning experience for over 120+ million learners in over 190 countries. You will be responsible for designing, maintaining and improving our English content, ensuring that learners can progress and apply their language skills in a real-world and professional context. In this role, you will combine pedagogical expertise, learner data, and competitive insights to create effective, engaging, and accessible content. You will also contribute to the evolution of Busuu’s AI driven features, ensuring that AI enhances the learning journey while crafting a cohesive meaningful experience for the learners.

On a day-to-day basis, your responsibilities are likely to include:

• Create, maintain and update our English syllabi and lessons, applying best pedagogical and instructional design principles for digital language learning
• Working with Busuu’s content management system to build and publish new content and maintain existing courses
• Checking and critiquing other team members’ lesson plans as part of our internal quality assurance process
• Analyse learner data and conduct research to identify content gaps and opportunities, challenges and usage patterns while keeping up to date with competitors and trends
• Contribute to the evolution of the product, ensuring our methodology adapts to new technology and features as they emerge
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to contribute to the evolution of our courses and AI features and make sure they are aligned with our learners’ needs

Essential Skills And Experience

• Masters-level qualification in languages, linguistics or education
• Proven experience teaching English as a foreign language
• Experience creating lesson content and planning your own lessons
• Deep understanding of English grammar and language systems
• Interest in and / or experience with AI in education
• Data-driven mindset to make the best decisions for learners needs
• Both native and non-native speakers of English are welcome to apply, but a C2 level mastery of the language is expected.

Bonus Skills And Experience

• Experience working in an Edtech company
• Experience learning a foreign language
• Experience in using a Content Management system
• Experience in prompt writing for Large Language Models such as ChatGPT for educational purposes

At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:

• Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit
• You get 2 free lunches per week at our office that you can choose out of a wide selection of restaurants in the area
• Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme
• Wellness platform (Wellhub) with access to wide range of fitness and wellbeing resources
• There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers
• We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working
• We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on location)
• Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such a team lunches, Friday socials, quarterly team, and company events

What happens next?

We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around. The hiring process for this role has the following steps:

• CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible and update you on the next steps
• Let’s chat - Quick chat with a member of our team about your experience and the role
• Interview - With the Hiring Manager
• Test - You will be asked to complete a 90-minute home test to see your language skills & pedagogic approach
• Interview and Meet the team - Interview to review the task and speak with other colleagues in the team

Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. We pride ourselves on embracing our differences, whether they're cultural, racial, religious or otherwise. This means each one of us comes to work knowing that we have a voice – and a safe, judgment-free zone to speak freely.