Director, AI Learning Experience & Innovation

Leading Educators Careers

1d • $113,714 - $144,157 • Remote

About The Position

Leading Educators is seeking a Director, AI Learning Experience & Innovation to lead the design and delivery of AI Accelerators, cohort-based learning experiences that help organizational leaders identify real-world challenges, develop AI-enabled solutions, and refine those solutions through rigorous user feedback. The Director will architect each cohort’s full learning journey, design practical learning opportunities, and coordinate a cross-functional delivery team of coaches and technical mentors. The role translates strategic priorities into learning experiences tailored to different partners and participants and requires credibility and composure in high-stakes client relationships with senior leaders.

This is a hands-on builder role for someone who has created with AI tools and is grounded in adult learning design. The Director will evolve the Accelerators model by adapting experiences to partner needs, using participant feedback and implementation insights to improve programs, developing resources, and making design and delivery decisions. They will build trusted relationships with participating teams, organizational leaders, and executive sponsors across education and social-impact organizations, adapting engagement strategies to stakeholders and organizational contexts.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Innovation, New Learning Models, the Director owns end-to-end session design, directs the delivery team, resolves ambiguity independently, and exercises judgment within established goals and priorities. They collaborate with leadership when decisions may affect scope, resources, or partner commitment. The position works from a home office located anywhere in the United States, with national travel for organizational retreats, programming, donor meetings, and professional development. Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

The position offers an annual base compensation range of $113,714 to $144,157. The salary entry point is $125,354, and candidates with more than eight years of directly relevant experience may have a starting salary adjusted up to $133,413. Benefits include paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees, partial premium coverage for partners and dependents, a 4% matching 401(k), flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program, and paid time off.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience in learning design, adult education, instructional design, or an equivalent field, with demonstrated ownership of both program design and delivery.
• Direct, hands-on experience building with AI tools, including demonstrable evidence of having created something and the ability to credibly explain the process to others.
• Experience designing and facilitating learning for adult cohorts, such as cohort-based programs, learning communities, or similarly structured group learning environments.
• Ability to translate ambiguous or developing strategy into a concrete, well-sequenced learning experience and delivery plan, adjusting scope and pacing as new information emerges.
• Demonstrated success managing the operational execution of a program or initiative, including coordinating contributors toward a shared outcome.
• Established credibility working with senior leaders through a consultancy, design lab, ed-tech company, or similar organization serving education or social-impact leaders; direct K-12 school district experience is not required.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of moving work forward without a complete plan, with willingness to create from scratch.
• Ability to pivot quickly when direction changes, including late in a project, without losing delivery momentum or quality.
• Reflective, self-aware approach to personal ways of working and ability to adapt habits and style to unfamiliar situations.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Ability to travel nationally for organizational retreats, programming, donor meetings, and professional development.
• Home office must be located within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of AI Accelerators, cohort-based learning experiences for organizational leaders.
• Architect the full learning journey for each cohort and design engaging, practical learning opportunities.
• Coordinate and direct a cross-functional delivery team, including coaches and technical mentors, toward shared delivery outcomes.
• Translate strategic priorities into concrete, well-sequenced learning experiences and delivery plans tailored to partner and participant needs.
• Adapt learning experiences as new information emerges and as partner needs, scope, or direction change.
• Work directly with participating teams, organizational leaders, and executive sponsors, building trusted relationships across stakeholder roles and organizational contexts.
• Use participant feedback and implementation insights to test and improve programs, document effective approaches, and develop useful resources.
• Own end-to-end session design, resolve ambiguity independently, and exercise judgment within established goals and priorities.
• Collaborate with leadership when decisions may affect scope, resources, or partner commitment.
• Travel nationally for organizational retreats, programming, donor meetings, and professional development.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees.
• Leading Educators covers 60% of additional medical, dental, and vision premium costs for partners and dependents.
• 4% matching 401(k) plan.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare, and commuter expenses.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Full-time staff accrue 22 days of paid time off annually during the first three years of employment, with five additional accrued days after the third and sixth years.
• 16 additional paid days off for holidays, including three floating holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed