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Senior Learning Designer – ESL/EFL Curriculum
Location
United States
Posted
143 days ago
Salary
$75K - $125K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Learning Designer – ESL/EFL Curriculum
Speak
• Contribute to ESL/EFL curriculum development, balancing pedagogical efficacy, appropriate difficulty, and learner engagement. • Design and write engaging, effective learning materials (e.g., lesson scripts, activities, vocabulary lists) in English for ESL/EFL learners at different proficiency levels, operating with minimal oversight. • Manage end-to-end delivery of defined ESL/EFL content projects involving multiple contributors, ensuring clear timelines, ownership, and communication throughout the project lifecycle. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners and teammates across global markets and time zones • Contribute to quarterly and annual planning for Speak’s ESL/EFL learner strategy. • Evaluate content effectiveness and proactively propose improvements by leveraging QA results, analytics, and user interviews • Own the quality and consistency of ESL/EFL content within your assigned scope • Help strengthen content standards and workflows across the Learning Design team by contributing to peer reviews, sharing best practices and learnings, and participating in training
Job Requirements
- Native level fluency in verbal and written English - able to produce engaging lesson materials in English
- Proven experience designing ESL/EFL curriculum or learning content for English learners at an ed tech company
- Strong instructional writing and curriculum planning skills, with excellent attention to detail and pedagogical rigor
- Excellent user empathy for ESL/EFL learners across proficiency levels, with a strong judgement on what makes a learning material effective and engaging
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders or contributors
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply qualitative and quantitative insights to improve course quality
- Passion for technology-assisted language learning and comfort working with modern tools (e.g., Notion, Slack, chatGPT, Claude, Dropbox, internal tooling, etc.)
- Bilingual or multilingual background, or demonstrated cultural familiarity with one or more of the following EFL learner markets: France, Japan, Korea, LATAM, Taiwan, or Vietnam
- Experience working with AI in a professional setting
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