Instructional Designer

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• Identify persistent ELA learning obstacles by analyzing student performance metrics, platform analytics, assessment outcomes, writing samples, reading comprehension responses, and student work artifacts.
• Deploy AI systems and agentic automation to reconstruct reading activities, writing frameworks, instructional explanations, vocabulary sequences, grammar exercises, scaffolding supports, and targeted interventions.
• Enhance ELA assessment quality by revising question sets, writing prompts, distractors, scoring rubrics, exemplar models, answer rationales, and supplementary instructional content.
• Review and validate AI-produced or AI-modified instructional materials for conceptual clarity, academic rigor, alignment to source texts, grade-level suitability, learning efficacy, and adherence to Alpha's learning science framework.
• Apply evidence from MAP, SAT, AP, platform analytics, and internal assessments to determine which content requires updating, replacement, or complete redesign.

• Creating standalone worksheets, lesson plans, or test preparation materials disconnected from actual student learning data.
• Operating a traditional classroom environment, hand-grading essay collections, or overseeing school administrative functions.
• Developing education software products. Your focus will be improving the learning experience itself, not steering a software development roadmap.
• Limiting your role to diagnosis. You will be required to redesign the curriculum, scaffolding systems, assessments, and interventions that resolve the gaps you identify.
• Engaging in high-level education strategy from a conceptual distance. This work is applied, domain-specific, and evaluated by measurable student mastery.

Drive quantifiable ELA mastery gains by systematically refining reading, writing, language, assessment, scaffolding, and intervention content informed by continuous analysis of student learning evidence.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in English, Literature, Linguistics, Writing, Reading Education, English Education, Instructional Design, Cognitive Science, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience in ELA instruction, literacy curriculum development, assessment development, educational content creation, or learning design.
• Demonstrated K-12 ELA expertise, including the ability to evaluate reading comprehension, writing quality, language accuracy, text complexity, sequencing, and grade-level appropriateness.
• Practical knowledge of learning science or instructional design principles, such as mastery learning, direct instruction, scaffolding, cognitive load, and retrieval practice.
• Experience using AI tools to improve educational work, including LLMs, AI-assisted content generation, no-code workflows, agentic AI tools, or coding/API-based tools.
• Ability to use student learning data and student work to identify ELA gaps and improve curriculum, assessments, scaffolds, or interventions.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ELA concepts clearly to non-specialists.

• Direct LLM API experience for content generation, data analysis, adaptive learning, or assessment improvement.
• Experience with edtech, adaptive learning platforms, literacy assessment, or AI-supported academic design.
• Experience building an online audience or public knowledge base around literacy, writing, education, or AI.