Director of Learning Design & AI-Driven Curriculum

Pearson; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Director of Learning Design to guide the transformation of content developers into learning designers who orchestrate AI-driven curriculum development. You will align with product management to shape the curriculum portfolio, balancing customer needs, tech requirements, and budgets.

You will lead curriculum development, establish standards for AI-generated content, and redesign teams for orchestration and quality gates, driving measurable student outcomes and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum, instructional design, or content development leadership, including experience 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
• 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 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 and managers into learning designers and learning design managers
• Assess readiness for the shift and coordinate reskilling, redeployment, and external hiring with HR
• Set the tone and pace for change across a large team while retaining top performers
• Define the standard for effective human-agent collaboration in curriculum production
• Develop hands-on expertise with Pearson’s authoring toolset to identify improvements
• Own selection and evaluation of AI content-generation tools and platforms
• Build a quality assurance framework for AI-generated instructional content covering pedagogy, accessibility, bias, and originality risk
• Adapt review processes to AI-specific content risks such as fabricated citations and uncredited material
• 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

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Generative AI tools

People leadership

K-12 compliance

Decision making

Tools

Agent orchestration platforms

Prompt engineering

Job description

Pearson Virtual Schools is seeking a Director of Learning Design to guide the transformation of content developers into learning designers who orchestrate AI-driven curriculum development. You will align with product management to shape the curriculum portfolio, balancing customer needs, tech requirements, and budgets.

You will lead curriculum development, establish standards for AI-generated content, and redesign teams for orchestration and quality gates, driving measurable student outcomes and