Director of Curriculum – Innovation

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

📋 Description

• Keep Makers informed about the latest technologies, engineering practices, and evolving skills requirements.

• Conduct targeted experiments utilizing generative AI agents, contemporary engineering stacks, and cloud-native workflows.

• Transform research and experimentation into actionable curriculum concepts.

• Participate in executive and technical discussions with clients to grasp business context, technology stacks, skills gaps, and desired outcomes.

• Identify core issues and differentiate learning needs from broader organizational challenges.

• Develop curriculum briefs outlining audience, outcomes, technical scope, delivery methods, constraints, and success metrics.

• Design curriculum strategies and customized client proposals.

• Define learning outcomes, content organization, practical activities, assessment strategies, and delivery models.

• Collaborate with Commercial colleagues to create technically sound, learning-oriented proposals.

• Lead or directly assist in the delivery of the first cohort, providing context, materials, and technical support.

• Maintain close engagement with learners, coaches, and client sponsors throughout pilot phases.

• Utilize feedback and results from pilots to enhance delivery and safeguard outcomes and client trust.

• Review pilot programs and consolidate learner outcomes, feedback, and delivery insights.

• Recommend validated elements, areas needing further testing, and aspects that should not be scaled.

• Transfer successful curricula and supporting documentation to Curriculum Product for ongoing management and enhancement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience operating at a senior leadership level, guiding direction for a product, innovation field, or technical capability while influencing broader business priorities.

• Demonstrated experience in leading complex discussions with senior enterprise clients, challenging initial briefs and influencing final solutions.

• In-depth and current technical credibility in AI and emerging technologies.

• Capacity to translate intricate technical concepts into effective learning products.

• Extensive industry experience as a senior software engineer, technical consultant, solutions architect, or a similarly credible hands-on technology position.

• History of converting ambiguous business or skills needs into clear technical solutions, curriculum designs, or learning proposals.

• Practical experience in leading, teaching, coaching, or directly supporting a first delivery, pilot cohort, or similar live learning experience.

• Experience leveraging learner, client, and delivery feedback to enhance a pilot and recommend subsequent actions.

• Technical educator or coaching experience is highly desirable.

• Strong skills in learning design and facilitation.

• Successful candidates must undergo appropriate pre-employment checks, including DBS screening relevant to the role.

🏝️ Benefits

• A minimum of 25 days’ holiday per year, excluding UK Bank Holidays, plus company-wide Winter and Spring breaks.

• Unlimited fully paid wellness leave from day one.

• Private Medical Insurance available after successful completion of probation.

• Annual £500 Learning & Development allowance.

• Paid time off specifically for training and learning purposes.

• Daily meditation sessions.

• Contributions to a company pension plan.

• Enhanced parental pay and leave: up to 20 weeks of fully paid maternity leave, up to 8 weeks of fully paid paternity and secondary caregiver leave, and up to 20 weeks of fully paid adoption leave.

• Access to a Perks at Work account with shopping and leisure discounts.

• Implementation of Safeguarding and Prevent policies.

• Pre-employment checks including DBS screening relevant to the role.