Director, AI-Driven Learning Design

Pearson; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the transformation of curriculum development toward AI‑orchestrated design. You will guide a team from content drafting to learning design leadership, shape tools and standards, and partner with product and compliance to ensure standards and rigor across state requirements.

The role reports to senior leadership and offers a path to scale AI-enabled curriculum across platforms, with a focus on quality, accessibility, and instructional

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 through significant operating-model changes such as reorganization or process transformation
• Working knowledge of K-12 content compliance, including state academic standards, accessibility requirements, and copyright/rights-clearance basics
• Sound judgment to say no to weak AI-generated output and defend that call to leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality curriculum that supports an effective, engaging virtual learning experience 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 learning design managers, including role redefinition and training
• Assess readiness for the shift and plan reskilling, redeployment, and external hiring with HR
• Define the standard for effective human-agent collaboration in curriculum production and establish review checkpoints
• Develop expertise with the proprietary authoring toolset and identify enhancements or replacements
• Own selection and evaluation of AI content-generation tools and platforms
• Build and maintain a QA framework for AI-generated instructional content including accessibility and originality risk
• Adapt review processes to AI-specific content risks such as fabricated citations
• Redesign team structure and reporting lines to reflect orchestration over drafting
• Establish a repeatable agent-orchestration workflow with quality gates
• Track throughput and cost-per-learning-unit with a rigorous measurement framework
• Partner with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance to meet standards and rigor
• Represent the team to senior leadership with productivity, quality, and risk metrics

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the transformation of curriculum development toward AI‑orchestrated design. You will guide a team from content drafting to learning design leadership, shape tools and standards, and partner with product and compliance to ensure standards and rigor across state requirements.

The role reports to senior leadership and offers a path to scale AI-enabled curriculum across platforms, with a focus on quality, accessibility, and instructional