Director, AI‑Orchestrated Learning Design

Pearson; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Pearson is transforming its Learning Design organization to orchestrate AI-enabled curriculum development. The Director of Learning Design will guide curriculum strategy, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver engaging, standards-aligned virtual courses.

The role requires deep K-12 instructional design expertise, hands-on AI tool experience, and the ability to lead managers through a significant operating-model shift.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum leadership or instructional design, including K-12 or virtual education.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for content creation.
• Experience leading managers through major operating-model change.
• Knowledge of K-12 content compliance, accessibility, and rights clearance.
• Judgment to uphold quality and reject weak AI-generated output.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality curriculum for virtual learning and student outcomes.
• Improve curriculum development processes using efficacy data.
• Transition content developers into learning designers and managers.
• Assess team readiness and coordinate reskilling or hiring with HR.
• Define AI content-generation standards and quality gates.
• Partner with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance to ensure standards.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Instructional design

K-12 education

Virtual/online education

Generative AI for content

Prompt engineering

Agent orchestration

AI-assisted workflows

People leadership

Change management

K-12 compliance

Accessibility

Copyright clearance

Decision making

Quality governance

AI ops scaling

Content development leadership

AI ethics in education

Job description

Pearson is transforming its Learning Design organization to orchestrate AI-enabled curriculum development. The Director of Learning Design will guide curriculum strategy, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver engaging, standards-aligned virtual courses.

The role requires deep K-12 instructional design expertise, hands-on AI tool experience, and the ability to lead managers through a significant operating-model shift.