Curriculum Development Director, Spanish

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design of curriculum, editorial development, maintenance, and instructional quality for Wayside’s Spanish titles and programs.

• Report directly to the VP of Product Development and spearhead Spanish curriculum planning, instructional design, and development.

• Collaborate on portfolio strategy, market opportunities, business cases, and investment priorities.

• Manage external contractors, freelancers, development vendors, and designated team members.

• Establish expectations for quality, scope, timelines, and deliverables.

• Provide instructional and editorial guidance, feedback, and necessary course corrections.

• Oversee team and contractor plans, capacity, workload distribution, and sequencing.

• Select and onboard development partners; mentor and provide feedback to assigned staff.

• Direct Spanish curriculum strategy, development planning, instructional design, program architecture, scope and sequence, proficiency progression, assessments, and teacher support.

• Supervise the development and upkeep of Spanish titles and programs in both print and digital formats.

• Promote continuous curriculum improvement through customer feedback and instructional evidence.

• Ensure that materials facilitate communication, interculturality, accessibility, differentiated learner needs, and practical teacher implementation.

• Lead strategic curriculum initiatives alongside Editorial, Instructional Development, Product Management, Project Management, Production, Creative Services, Marketing, and external partners.

• Design and manage comprehensive curriculum and editorial plans, including scoping, estimation, timelines, and dependencies.

• Guide the Spanish curriculum development roadmap and sequencing.

• Define pedagogy, instructional use cases, content structures, and assessment requirements.

• Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and mitigation strategies.

• Make curriculum and editorial decisions and resolve development trade-offs.

• Conduct instructional analysis, standards alignment, correlations, revisions, and ensure curriculum readiness for state and district adoptions.

• Analyze RFPs, rubrics, and submission requirements; manage documentation and responses to reviewer feedback.

• Create curriculum estimates and resource proposals; contribute to operating budget planning.

• Oversee approved Spanish editorial budgets and cost objectives.

• Drive curriculum contributions to business cases and assess instructional implications of digital investments.

• Engage educators through classroom visits, focus groups, conferences, surveys, and advisory discussions.

• Analyze market opportunities through curriculum and instructional analysis and develop curriculum recommendations.

• Assess new grade bands, learner segments, and adjacent markets.

• Collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing, and Professional Learning on positioning, presentations, launch readiness, educator support, and customer-facing initiatives.

• Build relationships with senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

• Contribute curriculum expertise to evaluations and improvement opportunities for Imagine Learning world language courseware.

• Participate in special projects and organizational initiatives.

• Travel occasionally for conferences, customer engagement, adoption presentations, and team collaboration.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Spanish, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Curriculum and Instruction, or a related discipline; relevant graduate studies preferred.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in curriculum development, instructional design, or editorial leadership in educational publishing or a closely related field.

• More than 5 years of experience leading complex curriculum or editorial initiatives while coordinating contractors, vendors, and cross-functional partners.

• Extensive knowledge of K–12 Spanish instruction, proficiency-based language learning, world language standards, assessment design, and teacher implementation requirements.

• Native or near-native proficiency in Spanish, enabling critical review of instructional materials.

• Proven ability to develop curriculum architecture, assess market and instructional needs, and contribute to business cases and development recommendations.

• Experience with print and digital educational resources, including online learning platforms; familiarity with state adoption preferred.

• Demonstrated capability to set direction, influence outcomes, develop personnel and external partners, and ensure accountability for quality and delivery.

• Outstanding leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving abilities.

• Aptitude for managing multiple complex initiatives with attention to detail and effectively navigating ambiguity, change, and tight timelines.

• Willingness to travel occasionally for conferences, customer engagement, adoption presentations, and team collaboration.

• Submission of a resume and a brief cover letter is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and more.

• Retirement savings plan with employer contributions.

• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage.

• Paid holidays and generous time off from work.

• Collaboration, flexibility, and a focus on work-life balance.

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on Spanish language education.

• Competitive compensation.