Course Director

Platzi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop + gear provided

Kindle books for professional growth

Maternity/Paternity leave

Equity pool access

Vacation 15 days/year

Online therapy

Team syncs across regions

AnnualVilla gathering

Job summary

Platzi is seeking a Course Director to own educational initiatives end to end, including courses, live classes, events, and product collaborations. You will decide what to teach, select teachers, and partner with Postproduction, Growth and Engineering to optimize learning on the platform.

You will run 2–3 initiatives in parallel at different stages, shaping launch timing, market demand, and data-driven outcomes to maximize impact.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years in education or digital content and creative production.
• You've made content yourself and it worked. You can show it and explain why it worked.
• Product mindset: you frame what you build as a hypothesis and you know what would prove you wrong.
• Creative judgment that's digital-first, with obsessive attention to detail, you can tell a format that engages from one that only looks reliable, and you catch what others miss before it ships.
• Comfortable using AI tools (LLMs, copilots, automation platforms) as part of your everyday workflow.
• Experience coaching teachers, creators or talent, with empathy and a high bar.
• Fluent English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Own your initiatives end to end: from deciding what's worth teaching, through production, to launch and what happens after.
• Design the experience, not just the content: formats, dynamics and projects that people finish.
• Run experiments on your courses and kill what doesn't work, even when it was your idea.
• Choose, onboard and coach teachers, and hold the standard when a class isn't good enough.
• Work with Engineering on what the platform should do differently for students to learn better.
• Own your numbers: started, enrollment and completion, and build with AI to make production faster without lowering the bar.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent Spanish

AI tools experience

Coaching teachers/creators

Content creation experience

Education

4+ years in education or digital content

Job description

About Us

Platzi is the largest technology school in the Hispanic world with over 7 million students and 4,000 companies trusting us to deliver effective online education. Our mission is to make Latin America a technology superpower. We do it by training companies and individuals in areas such as AI, Cybersecurity, English, Programming and Leadership.

As an industry leader, our presence is highlighted by our massive and fanatic community, extensive press coverage and a daily stream of success stories from students. We operate mostly remote, with key offices in Bogotá, Medellín and Mexico City.

Summary

As Course Director at Platzi you own educational initiatives end to end — courses, live classes, events, and product collaborations: what we teach, who teaches it, how it gets made, and how it lands. You work with the teachers you choose and coach, with Postproduction, and with Growth and Engineering on how learning actually happens inside the platform.

At any given time you're running 2 to 3 initiatives in parallel, each at a different stage and often on completely different topics. You also decide when each course goes out, reading timing, market demand and data so the launch lands where it matters.

This is not an academic role. It's a creative and hands-on one. You treat a course like a product: you have a hypothesis about what will work, you run it, you look at what happened, and you change it. You think in formats and narrative before you think in syllabus.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Own your initiatives end to end: from deciding what's worth teaching, through production, to launch and what happens after.
• Design the experience, not just the content: formats, dynamics and projects that people finish.
• Run experiments on your courses and kill what doesn't work, even when it was your idea.
• Choose, onboard and coach teachers, and hold the standard when a class isn't good enough.
• Work with Engineering on what the platform should do differently for students to learn better.
• Own your numbers: started, enrollment and completion, and build with AI to make production faster without lowering the bar.

Requirements

• At least 4 years in education or digital content and creative production.
• You've made content yourself and it worked. You can show it and explain why it worked.
• Product mindset: you frame what you build as a hypothesis and you know what would prove you wrong.
• Creative judgment that's digital-first, with obsessive attention to detail, you can tell a format that engages from one that only looks reliable, and you catch what others miss before it ships.
• Comfortable using AI tools (LLMs, copilots, automation platforms) as part of your everyday workflow.
• Experience coaching teachers, creators or talent, with empathy and a high bar.
• Fluent English and Spanish.

Benefits

Hardware

With Platzi's help, you will have 100% of the necessary work tools such as a laptop, smartphone, desk, ergonomic chair, monitor, and other accessories.

Books

We provide you with all the books you need to grow professionally on Kindle, and we give you the Kindle too.

Maternity/Paternity Leave

At Platzi, we believe in gender equity and the importance of parents in the upbringing and care of their children. We make this a reality for new mothers and fathers through extended maternity and paternity leave.

Option Pool

All members of the Platzi Team have the opportunity to own a part of Platzi and have company shares.

Vacation

You have 15 days of vacation per year regardless of the country you are in, starting from the moment you join the team.

Online Therapy

We care about your emotional health by covering the first four online therapy sessions with specialized companies.

Team Syncs

Although we are in different parts of the world, Platzi teams meet in person during the year to exchange ideas, build, and strengthen bonds.

Villa Platzi

Every year, the entire team gathers somewhere in the world for a week to meet face-to-face, get to know each other, have interesting discussions, and plan ambitious projects.