Director, AI-Driven Learning Design

Pearson; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform how we develop curriculum using AI orchestration. You will guide the shift from traditional content drafting to AI-assisted design, establish standards, and lead a cross-functional transition with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance.

This role requires deep K-12 instructional design expertise, hands-on AI tooling experience, and proven ability to manage managers through large-scale changes, while ensuring accessibility and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum, instructional design, or content development leadership in K-12 or virtual/online education.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for content creation, including prompt engineering and agent orchestration.
• Proven experience leading managers through a significant operating-model change (reorg, redesign).
• Working knowledge of K-12 content compliance, accessibility requirements, and rights-clearance basics.
• Sound judgment to curb weak AI-generated output and defend decisions to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality curriculum for a virtual learning experience and student outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement of curriculum and development processes using efficacy and outcome data.
• Transform team from content developers to learning designers and learning design managers; define roles and competencies.
• Coordinate with HR on reskilling, redeployment, and external hiring as needed.
• Define AI content-generation standards, brief/prompt guidelines, and review checkpoints; establish QA framework.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

AI content creation

Managing managers

K-12 standards & accessibility

AI governance & risk

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform how we develop curriculum using AI orchestration. You will guide the shift from traditional content drafting to AI-assisted design, establish standards, and lead a cross-functional transition with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance.

This role requires deep K-12 instructional design expertise, hands-on AI tooling experience, and proven ability to manage managers through large-scale changes, while ensuring accessibility and