Director of Learning Design & AI Orchestration

Pearson; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Benefits information

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the transformation of content developers into learning designers and to orchestrate AI-powered curriculum development.

You will work with product and curriculum leadership to define standards, manage a portfolio of proprietary and licensed courses, and ensure accessibility and state standards compliance while guiding a major organizational transition.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in curriculum, instructional design, or content development leadership (K‑12 or online).
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for content creation, including prompt engineering or agent orchestration.
• Proven experience leading managers through significant operating-model changes.
• Working knowledge of K‑12 content compliance, accessibility, and copyright basics.
• Judgment to say no to weak AI-generated output and defend that call to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high-quality curriculum for virtual learning.
• Continually improve curriculum processes using efficacy and outcome data.
• Transform team roles into learning designers and managers with new competencies.
• Set pace for large-scale change and manage skill gaps and retention.
• Define standards for human‑agent collaboration and QA for AI-generated content.
• Redesign team structure and establish repeatable agent‑orchestration workflows.
• Partner with product, curriculum leadership, and compliance to meet standards.

Skills

Curriculum leadership

Instructional design

AI content generation

Agent orchestration

Change leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Agent orchestration platforms

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Director of Learning Design to lead the transformation of content developers into learning designers and to orchestrate AI-powered curriculum development.

You will work with product and curriculum leadership to define standards, manage a portfolio of proprietary and licensed courses, and ensure accessibility and state standards compliance while guiding a major organizational transition.