AI Learning Experience Lead

Pursuit; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Unlimited PTO

Lunch and snacks

Competitive compensation

Summer break

Job summary

Pursuit is hiring an AI Learning Experience Lead to sharpen our AI-native programs, refining curriculum, experience, and community for learners. You will partner with Product, delivery staff, and external partners to tailor learning to our communities and job outcomes in a fast-moving AI and employment landscape.

You’ll iterate on content models and facilitator flows, adapt to new audiences, and build an AI training product that powers personalization at scale, while maintaining Pursuit’s

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in product management, learning & development systems, or workforce enablement.
• Experience designing transformational in-person experiences that use structure and community to drive outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI tools for learning and experience building workflows and prototypes using AI.
• Product mindset: iterative, pragmatic, and data-informed, with real accountability for impact.
• Strong collaborator who communicates clearly and works well across functions in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.
• Deep empathy for adult learners, with a real read on what drives persistence and growth in high-barrier environments.
• Strong critical thinker who can design structured, scalable solutions in a startup-like setting, even without prior subject-matter expertise.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, bringing a flexible, can-do attitude to your work.
• Mission-Driven: You care deeply about equity, tech access, and expanding opportunity for underrepresented communities.

Responsibilities

• Iterate on Pursuit's learning thesis: test and sharpen beliefs about what and how we teach, AI mastery expectations, and outcomes.
• Operationalize and improve the learning experience: own goals, progression models, and key activities across program stages.
• Define and measure learner outcomes: track skill progression, job-readiness, and longer-term outcomes; map curriculum to required skills.
• Help build our AI training agent and other learning products: specify instructional inputs to power AI and learning tools.
• Incorporate market insights: gather input from Development, Jobs, and Program teams to inform content.
• Prototype, test, and refine: build content models, facilitator flows, and delivery systems from user feedback.
• Adapt the learning experience for new audiences: extend curriculum across audiences and formats.

Skills

Product management

Learning & development

AI tools for learning

Collaboration across functions

Adult learner empathy

Structured, scalable design

Job description

Pursuit is a social impact organization building the future of economic mobility in the age of AI.

For over a decade, we've transformed lives through immersive training programs that propel adults from low-income backgrounds - often without college degrees - into high-growth tech careers. Our graduates have already generated nearly $1 billion in lifetime wage gains. We've also pioneered the Pursuit Bond, an innovative outcomes-based financing model that aligns investor returns with long-term economic mobility, allowing us to scale impact in a financially sustainable way.

Now, as AI reshapes every industry, Pursuit is evolving into an AI-native organization. We're training AI-native talent, embedding AI into our operations, and building scalable software to extend our impact. From grassroots partnerships to national policy, we're not just filling jobs - we're rethinking how economic opportunity works at scale.

About the Role

Pursuit is hiring an AI Learning Experience Lead to keep sharpening the learning experience across our AI-native programs - refining the curriculum, experience, and community that our facilitators deliver, as new technologies, market feedback, and learning outcomes point the way.

This role sits at the intersection of pedagogy, product, and problem-solving. Reporting to the VP of Training and Programs, you'll evolve what and how we teach, adapt the learning experience across different audiences and formats, and help build the AI training product that will power personalization and scale. You'll work closely with the Product team, our delivery staff, and external partners to keep Pursuit's learning experience tailored to the communities we serve, aligned to job outcomes, and responsive to a fast-moving AI and employment landscape.

You're energized by making something that already works even better - pulling signal from new technology, market feedback, and learning outcomes data, and turning it into sharper curriculum and delivery, quickly.

Key Responsibilities

• Iterate on Pursuit's learning thesis: Continuously test and sharpen our beliefs about how and what we teach, what AI mastery looks like, and what Builders should walk away with - refining as new technology, market feedback, and outcomes data point the way.
• Operationalize and improve the learning experience: Own the high-level goals, progression models, and key learning activities that define each stage of our programs, evolving them as the programs scale.
• Define and measure learner outcomes: Track success metrics for Builders - including skill progression, job-readiness, and longer-term outcomes - and use data and feedback loops to refine curriculum and delivery at scale. This includes mapping curriculum to the specific skills Builders need and measuring their progression across those skills.
• Help build our AI training agent and other products that support the Builder learning experience: Define the instructional inputs - learning goals, templates, success criteria, pacing models - to power our AI learning agent and other learning products.
• Incorporate market insights: Actively gather input from Development, Jobs, and Program teams to inform what we teach and how we teach it.
• Prototype, test, and refine: Quickly build and iterate on content models, facilitator flows, and delivery systems based on user feedback and outcomes.
• Adapt the learning experience for new audiences: Modify and extend our curriculum across audiences and formats for our pilots and partnerships.

About You

• 5-10 years in product management, learning & development systems, or workforce enablement.
• Experience designing transformational in-person experiences that use structure and community to drive outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI tools for learning and experience building workflows and prototypes using AI
• Product mindset: iterative, pragmatic, and data-informed, with real accountability for impact.
• Strong collaborator who communicates clearly and works well across functions in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.
• Deep empathy for adult learners, with a real read on what drives persistence and growth in high-barrier environments.
• Strong critical thinker who can design structured, scalable solutions in a startup-like setting, even without prior subject-matter expertise.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, bringing a flexible, can-do attitude to your work.
• Mission-Driven: You care deeply about equity, tech access, and expanding opportunity for underrepresented communities.

Where You'll Work

This role follows our standard hybrid pattern: Tuesday-Thursday on-site in Long Island City, with Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere.

The base salary range for this role is $130,000-$150,000.

The compensation range above reflects the expectations laid out in this job description; however, we're often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than posted. If that's the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

• An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities we serve
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
• Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August, plus a week-long holiday the last week of December
• Hybrid schedule: Tuesday-Thursday on-site in Long Island City, Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere
• Catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
• Dedicated time to build in AI and hone your AI skills

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.