Director of AI-Driven Learning Design

Pearson; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the conversion of content developers into learning designers and to establish AI‑driven curriculum development standards. You will partner with Product Management to shape the curriculum portfolio, assess customer needs, and balance buy vs.

build decisions. This role demands deep K‑12 instructional design expertise and hands-on Generative AI orchestration, setting a high bar for quality, accessibility, and compliance across

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, agent orchestration platforms, or AI-assisted production workflows.
• Proven experience leading managers 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 judgment to say no to weak AI-generated output and defend that call to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality curriculum for virtual learning and student outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement of curriculum and development processes using efficacy data.
• Redefine roles of content developers into learning designers and managers with training.
• Coordinate reskilling, redeployment, and external hiring with HR.
• Set tone and pace for large-scale organizational change across a team.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

AI content tools

People management

K-12 standards knowledge

Decision making under pressure

Tools

Prompt libraries

Agent QA pipelines

Model evaluation

Job description

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the conversion of content developers into learning designers and to establish AI‑driven curriculum development standards. You will partner with Product Management to shape the curriculum portfolio, assess customer needs, and balance buy vs.

build decisions. This role demands deep K‑12 instructional design expertise and hands-on Generative AI orchestration, setting a high bar for quality, accessibility, and compliance across