Learning Designer, STEM

Job Overview

Our Company.

Time4Learning, a Cambium® Learning Group Brand, offers award-winning online curriculum, resources, and programs for at-home use and within alternative learning settings. Time4Learning has three major brands – its flagship product, Time4Learning, an online core curriculum and supplemental program for students in grades PreK-12th grade; Homeschool.com Marketplace, a popular destination for families looking for tips and advice on homeschooling and great deals on home education products; and Brightspire Virtual School, an accredited online school for students in grades 6-12. Time4Learning is experiencing a period of rapid growth and working to expand our home education product line and our reach into new and evolving learning environments.

Our Team.

Time4Learning is a remote-first group with team members from coast to coast. As a long-standing leader in the home education space, T4L attracts a diverse group of talented people who create delightful learning experiences for students and helpful resources and tools for parents. Qualified candidates bring curiosity, humility, and an open mind for the diverse and unique ways students learn at home.

Our Culture.

The T4L team values diversity of thought, experience, and approach so that we can offer the best home education products on the market. We work collaboratively and with purpose, but don’t take ourselves too seriously. We establish rapport through monthly team building activities and cross-functional projects that offer staff opportunities to work with people who have different skill sets and perspectives.

Vision for This Position:

Our team is seeking an experienced Learning Designer with a STEM focus. This position is accountable for ensuring the pedagogical integrity of the Time4Learning products by performing content research, ideation, design, evaluation, and decision-making for digital and print products as part of the T4L product development process. This position will also serve as a K-8 Math and Science SME.

Job Responsibilities

Content Design

• Develops artifacts that drive instructional product development, including instructional blueprints, prototypes, scopes and sequences, and content models that are based on relevant academic research and learning science.
• Partners with team members to ensure materials developed align with best practices, research, accessibility standards, and equitable representation.
• Collaborates with Content Engineering to ensure pedagogical design follows established taxonomies and backend architecture.

Research and Innovation

• Performs research to translate findings into product content and features.
• Helps with the development of research bases, white papers, and learning design briefs
• Remains informed about trends and innovations in the industry

Development Management

• Collaborates with team members and external vendors to manage key project milestones and establish clear timelines for the development of materials.
• Helps with the creation of RFPs for new content development.
• Serves on project teams to bring the ideated solutions to life, including contributing to planning and launch processes; reviewing deliverables to ensure that they meet the specified expectations; provides feedback on new content development
• Partners with Product Managers, UX and Visual Designers, Content Developers/Editors, Content Engineers, and others to ideate vision, deliverables, and requirements for product solutions as the pedagogical and classroom voice
• Ensures alignment to the product and pedagogical vision throughout development

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, curriculum and instruction, educational technology, or similar
• Masters degree in education preferred
• 3+ years designing materials for commercial educational content providers
• 2+ years of K-6 classroom teaching experience
• Experience designing print and digital student and teacher-facing content, including lesson plans, videos, and interactivities
• Experience applying academic research to content design and development
• Expert level knowledge of K-8 math and science pedagogy
• Deep knowledge of state and national education standards
• Outstanding organization, presentation, and communication skills required.

Remote-first organization, but must be able to travel 1-2 times per year for conferences and team meetings

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.time4learning.com.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.