Senior Instructional Designer $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
Most ELA curriculum positions focus on lesson creation, prompt design, and assessment writing. This role centers on leveraging AI and student performance data to systematically enhance how students achieve mastery in reading, writing, vocabulary, language, and evidence-based reasoning.
At 2 Hour Learning, students engage with an AI-powered learning model designed to accelerate progress beyond what traditional schooling permits. Your contributions will operate within this system. You will identify where students encounter obstacles, revise the materials that created those learning gaps, and refine the assessments that confirm genuine mastery. The objective is not producing polished curriculum documents. The objective is generating measurable improvement on MAP, SAT, AP, and other ELA-relevant assessments.
This is applied academic design work. You will deploy LLMs, AI-assisted platforms, no-code workflows, agentic AI tools, and student work artifacts to reconstruct reading activities, writing frameworks, vocabulary lessons, scaffolds, interventions, rubrics, prompts, and content validation processes. You will observe the results in the data: students engaging with texts more deeply, expressing ideas more clearly, and mastering language skills more rapidly.
If you are prepared to apply AI toward making ELA learning demonstrably more effective, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Identify persistent ELA learning gaps by analyzing student performance data, platform analytics, assessment outcomes, writing samples, reading responses, and student work artifacts.
- Deploy AI tools and agentic workflows to reconstruct reading activities, writing frameworks, explanations, vocabulary lessons, grammar exercises, scaffolds, and interventions.
- Enhance ELA assessments by refining question design, writing prompts, distractors, rubrics, exemplars, answer explanations, and related instructional content.
- Review AI-generated or AI-modified materials to ensure clarity, rigor, text alignment, grade-level appropriateness, learning effectiveness, and conformity with Alpha's learning science standards.
- Leverage student evidence from MAP, SAT, AP, platform metrics, and internal assessments to determine which content requires updating, replacement, or complete redesign.
What you will NOT be doing
- Creating standalone worksheets, lesson plans, or test preparation materials disconnected from student learning evidence.
- Operating a traditional classroom, manually grading essay collections, or overseeing school operations.
- Developing education software products. You will enhance the learning experience, not oversee a software roadmap.
- Ending at diagnosis. You will be responsible for redesigning the curriculum, scaffolds, assessments, and interventions that address the gaps you identify.
- Conducting general education strategy from a distance. This work is hands-on, subject-focused, and evaluated by student mastery outcomes.
Key responsibilities
Drive measurable ELA mastery by systematically improving reading, writing, language, assessment, scaffolding, and intervention materials informed by student learning evidence.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in English, Literature, Linguistics, Writing, Reading Education, English Education, Instructional Design, Cognitive Science, or a closely related field.
- 3+ years of experience in ELA instruction, literacy curriculum development, assessment development, educational content creation, or learning design.
- Demonstrated K-12 ELA expertise, including the ability to evaluate reading comprehension, writing quality, language accuracy, text complexity, sequencing, and grade-level appropriateness.
- Practical knowledge of learning science or instructional design principles, such as mastery learning, direct instruction, scaffolding, cognitive load, and retrieval practice.
- Experience using AI tools to improve educational work, including LLMs, AI-assisted content generation, no-code workflows, agentic AI tools, or coding/API-based tools.
- Ability to use student learning data and student work to identify ELA gaps and improve curriculum, assessments, scaffolds, or interventions.
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ELA concepts clearly to non-specialists.
Nice to have
- Direct LLM API experience for content generation, data analysis, adaptive learning, or assessment improvement.
- Experience with edtech, adaptive learning platforms, literacy assessment, or AI-supported academic design.
- Experience building an online audience or public knowledge base around literacy, writing, education, or AI.
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