Director of Learning Design & AI Orchestration

Pearson; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform our curriculum development into AI‑driven orchestration. You will lead the transformation of content developers into learning designers, set standards for AI content production, and align with product management on portfolio strategy.

You will shape organizational design, governance, and quality assurance for AI-enabled curriculum, ensuring accessibility, standards alignment, and compliance while guiding leadership on productivity,

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 that supports an effective, engaging virtual learning experience and student outcomes.
• Lead continuous improvement of curriculum and development processes informed by efficacy data (course performance, assessment item analysis, student outcomes).
• Redesign team structure and reporting lines to reflect the shift to orchestration and review.
• Establish a documented, repeatable agent-orchestration workflow with gates before editorial review.
• Track throughput and cost-per-learning-unit through a rigorous measurement framework.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Instructional design

Generative AI

Agent orchestration

Change management

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Prompt libraries

Agent orchestration platforms

AI-assisted production workflows

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to transform our curriculum development into AI‑driven orchestration. You will lead the transformation of content developers into learning designers, set standards for AI content production, and align with product management on portfolio strategy.

You will shape organizational design, governance, and quality assurance for AI-enabled curriculum, ensuring accessibility, standards alignment, and compliance while guiding leadership on productivity,