Senior Director, Professional Education (Math)

Teachinglab; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Teaching Lab is seeking a Senior Director, Professional Education (Math) to shape and lead the NYC Solves coaching and professional learning portfolio. You will align portfolio strategy, instructional quality, staffing, partnerships, and resources, while guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality programs that improve educator practice and student outcomes.

Reporting to the Chief Professional Education Officer, you will drive strategic growth, financial performance, and

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead programmatic strategy for assigned portfolios, defining goals and success metrics.
• Partner with the Chief Professional Education Officer to solve programmatic challenges and drive execution across portfolios.

Job description

WHO WE ARE

Teaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life‑long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at www.teachinglab.org .

OUR VALUES

Teaching Lab seeks to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning in pursuit of excellent educational outcomes for every child.

Teaching Lab's ultimate goals are:

• Educators learn more than they would without us
• Students learn more than they would without us, in a way that cannot be predicted by race, gender, or family income
• Educators we serve say they love our approach, and they want to keep doing it to advance educational equity

All employees are expected to embrace Teaching Lab's Values to help us achieve our ultimate goals.

• Collaboration & Responsive Service
• Resilient Solution‑Finding
• Research & Learning With Humility
• Accountable Excellence
• Equity & Justice

Read more about Teaching Lab's Values here .

TYPE OF VACANCY

Salaried (Full‑Time)

START DATE

December 2026

LOCATION

NE US: While this is a remote position, we strongly prefer candidates who reside in the Northeastern United States (NY, NJ, PA, MA, CT, VT, ME, RI) due to the regional focus of this role. Applicants from other locations are still encouraged to apply.

DEPARTMENT

Program

REPORTS TO

Chief Professional Education Officer

SUPERVISES

Often supervises Director(s), Program, Senior Manager(s), Program, and/or other Senior Director(s), Program. Dependent on the project, the Senior Director, Program is often a Project Leader with project team supervision responsibilities

TRAVEL

Remote with frequent travel

COMPENSATION

$125,000 to $164,889

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Programmatic Leadership Strategy: Helping set and advance programmatic goals and strategy, including identifying partnership challenges and innovating solutions to improve teaching and learning at scale.
• Math Content Expertise: Serving as a content‑area expert in math curriculum and instruction, applying deep knowledge of College‑and‑Career‑Ready math standards to shape programmatic decisions and build team members' content expertise.
• Project and Team Leadership: Leading complex, cross‑project and cross‑departmental initiatives, managing programmatic projects and team members across content development, state/district implementation, and coaching/facilitation.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Professional Education department's primary purpose is to design, deliver, and continuously improve teacher professional learning programs that strengthen instructional practice and drive student achievement. The team's main functions include managing and implementing scopes of work with partners, providing coaching and professional learning for teachers and leaders, and creating research‑based content and learning assets tailored to partner needs. The Professional Education department contributes to Teaching Lab's mission by ensuring that every partnership drives measurable impact on teacher practice and student learning, advancing educational equity at scale.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Director, Professional Education (Math) provides strategic leadership for the NYC Solves coaching and professional learning portfolio, setting the vision, priorities, and systems needed to deliver high‑quality programs and achieve strong educator and student outcomes. The Senior Director aligns program strategy, instructional quality, staffing, partnerships, and resources across the portfolio; leads cross‑functional collaboration and decision‑making; and ensures effective execution across a complex set of projects and stakeholders.

The Senior Director is accountable for the strategic growth, financial performance, and sustainability of the NYC Solves portfolio, including developing opportunities to expand impact, strengthening and deepening partner relationships, and achieving revenue and programmatic goals. This role identifies and addresses portfolio‑level opportunities and challenges, makes strategic tradeoffs, and empowers teams to execute against shared priorities in service of Teaching Lab's mission to strengthen educator practice and improve student learning and outcomes.

ESSENTIAL PROJECTS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Director, Professional Education (Math) will hold responsibilities in the following areas:

• Support the development of Teaching Lab's programmatic strategy and leadership of assigned portfolios (50%)
• Develop and execute a programmatic vision, owning work streams tied to program and strategic plan metrics, and partner with the CPO to solve programmatic