Learning Experience Designer, Core

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

📋 Description

• Act as the grade-level leader and subject-matter expert for your designated grade.

• Take ownership of resolving content and alignment challenges across various workstreams.

• Ensure that lessons, texts, and assessments at your grade level create a cohesive learning experience.

• Be responsible for confirming that all materials comply with the pertinent state ELA standards and frameworks.

• Assist in the creation of grade-level scopes and sequences.

• Contribute to the development of teacher-facing and student-facing lessons and materials that exemplify rigorous, scaffolded, and standards-aligned instruction.

• Create and refine formative and summative assessment items, rubrics, and performance tasks.

• Develop embedded scaffolding and differentiation tools such as graphic organizers, sentence frames, and leveled vocabulary supports.

• Oversee the review of lessons, activities, and assessments generated by contributors and AI for your grade.

• Aid in the continuous refinement of AI prompts and specifications that inform lesson design and production stages.

• Work collaboratively with senior designers, lesson and assessment authors, ELD specialists, and product and technology teams to incorporate feedback.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in English, Education, Curriculum & Instruction, or a related field.

• More than 5 years of experience in secondary ELA curriculum development, instructional design, or content creation, ideally within an educational technology or publishing organization (experience in school- or district-based curriculum development is also valued).

• Solid understanding of secondary ELA pedagogy and state standards and frameworks such as CCSS, encompassing reading development, writing instruction, and best practices in assessment.

• Exceptional English writing and editing skills, with a proven ability to produce polished, standards-aligned instructional content and provide clear, constructive feedback to other writers.

• A discerning eye for quality and meticulous attention to detail when reviewing materials, capable of making informed, well-reasoned content decisions independently.

• A strong sense of ownership—you take responsibility for the outcomes at your grade level, uphold commitments, identify risks early, and maintain high standards for yourself and others.

• Comfort and proficiency with AI tools, along with a keen interest in leveraging them to enhance high-quality content development while maintaining pedagogical integrity.

• Strong organizational abilities and verbal communication skills, enabling you to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize effectively in alignment with business needs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contributions to premiums and HSA accounts.

• Additional perks including gym reimbursement, pet insurance, complimentary access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer, and more to promote your overall well-being: mind, body, and soul.

• We provide a monthly technology stipend to assist with your work-from-home requirements!

• Inclusive benefits designed to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility assistance, adoption support, and more!

• Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, featuring employer matching to help you achieve long-term financial security.

• Flexible PTO, paid sick leave, company holidays, and a winter break from December 24th to January 1st.

• Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance for employees to participate in external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and acquire educational materials, fostering professional growth in their current roles and career aspirations at Newsela.