Director of AI-Driven Learning Design

Pearson; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform curriculum development through AI-enabled orchestration and strong instructional design leadership. You will direct teams of content developers into learning designers and establish standards for AI-assisted curriculum production, ensuring standards alignment, accessibility, and rigor.

You will partner with product management and compliance to shape a scalable, repeatable workflow, track costs and throughput, and balance build vs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum, instructional design, or content development leadership in K-12/virtual education
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for content creation, including prompt engineering and agent orchestration
• Experience leading managers through significant operating-model changes
• Knowledge of K-12 content compliance, state standards, accessibility, and rights clearance
• Judgment to say no to low-quality AI-generated output and defend it to leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high-quality curriculum for engaging virtual learning with strong student outcomes
• Drive continuous improvement of curriculum processes using efficacy and outcome data
• Lead transformation of team from content developers to learning designers and managers
• Define standards for human–AI collaboration and AI content generation
• Develop and enforce a QA framework for AI-generated content including accessibility, bias and originality risks
• Partner with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance to ensure standards and rigor

Skills

Curriculum leadership

AI tooling

Prompt engineering

Agent orchestration

K-12 compliance

Change leadership

Tools

Pearson authoring toolset

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform curriculum development through AI-enabled orchestration and strong instructional design leadership. You will direct teams of content developers into learning designers and establish standards for AI-assisted curriculum production, ensuring standards alignment, accessibility, and rigor.

You will partner with product management and compliance to shape a scalable, repeatable workflow, track costs and throughput, and balance build vs.