Director, AI-Driven Learning Design

Pearson; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead AI-enabled curriculum transformation for its Virtual Learning organization. You will direct design teams, orchestrate AI-powered content creation, and establish operating standards for scalable, high‑quality coursework.

The role partners with product, HR, and compliance to ensure standards, accessibility, and rigor while guiding large‑scale organizational change and talent development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum, instructional design, or content development leadership, including experience in K‑12 or virtual/online education.
• Direct, hands‑on experience with generative AI tools for content creation, including prompt engineering, agent orchestration platforms, or AI‑assisted production workflows.
• Proven experience leading managers, not only individual contributors, through a significant operating‑model change such as a reorganization or process transformation.
• Working knowledge of K‑12 content compliance, including state academic standards, accessibility requirements, and copyright and rights‑clearance basics.
• Sound enough judgment to say no to weak AI‑generated output and defend that call to both the team and to leadership pushing for speed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality curriculum for engaging virtual learning and student outcomes.
• Lead continuous improvement of curriculum and development processes informed by efficacy data.
• Lead the transition of content developers into learning designers and manage redefinition of roles.
• Assess readiness for shift and coordinate reskilling, redeployment, and external hiring with HR.
• Define standards for human‑agent collaboration in curriculum production.
• Develop expertise with Pearson’s authoring toolset to identify improvements.
• Own selection and evaluation of AI content‑generation tools and platforms.
• Build QA framework for AI‑generated content covering pedagogy, standards alignment, accessibility, bias and originality.
• Adapt review processes to AI content risks such as fabricated citations.
• Redesign team structure and reporting lines to reflect the shift from manual drafting to orchestration and review.
• Establish a documented, repeatable agent‑orchestration workflow with clear quality gates before content reaches editorial review.
• Track throughput and cost‑per‑learning-unit through a rigorous measurement framework.
• Partner with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance to ensure agent‑orchestrated content meets standards and accessibility.
• Represent the team's transformation to senior leadership, reporting on productivity, quality, and risk metrics.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Instructional design

K-12 education

Generative AI in content

AI orchestration

Prompts engineering

Leadership of managers

Content governance

Tools

Prompt libraries

Agent QA pipelines

Model evaluation

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead AI-enabled curriculum transformation for its Virtual Learning organization. You will direct design teams, orchestrate AI-powered content creation, and establish operating standards for scalable, high‑quality coursework.

The role partners with product, HR, and compliance to ensure standards, accessibility, and rigor while guiding large‑scale organizational change and talent development.