Speak

Senior Learning Designer – ESL/EFL Curriculum

Speak

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $75,000 - $125,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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

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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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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