Remote Curriculum Designer II

Summary

Join NoRedInk's Curriculum team as a Curriculum Designer II or Senior Curriculum Designer! Shape new writing curriculum using best practices and creativity. Lead large curriculum development projects, ensuring timely completion and high quality. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers. Develop internal processes to scale content creation. Conduct research to inform curriculum design and evaluate its success. Mentor junior designers. This role requires experience leading large curriculum projects in ed-tech, exceptional writing skills, strong project management abilities, and deep familiarity with the K-12 education system.

Requirements

• You’ve led large curriculum projects at an ed tech company from design to delivery, including overseeing editorial processes and the work of multiple contributors
• You’ve closely collaborated with product managers, designers, and engineers on feature development for new learning experiences
• You’re an exceptional writer with a sharp editorial eye; you know what strong writing looks like, can expertly tailor your message to achieve your desired impact on different audiences, and can efficiently guide others to achieve the same results
• You’re a natural project manager; you’re always thinking ahead, flexibly managing dependencies, and keeping stakeholders informed of progress, with your end goal in mind
• Your strong communication skills help you to collaborate effectively within and across teams
• You’re great at bringing clarity to ambiguity, applying an analytical mindset to break down problems and and creating systems to manage complex tasks
• You're a self-starter who’s incredibly organized and tech-savvy
• You approach problems creatively, always keeping students and teachers in mind
• You’re deeply familiar with the K-12 education system, standards, and research in the learning sciences
• You're hungry to make a difference in education. You bring passion, an awesome work ethic, and an entrepreneurial mindset to all your endeavors

Responsibilities

• Shape new writing curriculum, using knowledge of best practices, creativity, and a strong quality bar to break down skills and create highly supportive and engaging content
• Lead large curriculum development projects, ensuring adherence to timelines
• Develop and apply editorial processes to ensure quality
• Closely collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to shape new learning experience feature development and ensure pedagogical requirements are well-represented
• Develop internal processes to scale content creation, including exploring applications of AI
• Conduct and apply research in user needs and pedagogical best practices to inform curriculum design and evaluate its success
• Advise and mentor more junior curriculum designers

Preferred Qualifications

• You’re familiar with LLMs and best practices in prompt engineering or have the curiosity to learn more
• You have experience analyzing quantitative data or writing code
• Ideally, you have ELA teaching experience in grades 3-12

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package in a well-funded startup with strong product-market fit
• Excellent health, vision, and dental benefits (U.S. Only)
• 100% remote work environment
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave
• 401(k) (U.S. Only)
• LinkedIn Learning subscription with unlimited access to thousands of expert-led online courses
• Team retreats and events to connect with fun, talented coworkers
• The ability to help millions of students and teachers and address a critical societal need