Director, AI Strategy & Integration

CSA Education LLC • Chicago, IL

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Director of AI Strategy & Integration knows K-12 curriculum development and has deep working knowledge of AI to know what it can and can't do. This role brings together real industry experience and genuine technical knowledge to find smarter, more efficient ways to do the work. We're looking for someone who can spot opportunities others might miss, propose creative solutions that actually hold up in practice, and make honest calls about when AI adds value and when it doesn't. This role is for someone who is excited about what the right technology, used in the right way, can do for our work and our clients.

CSA Education / Zia Learning is an entirely remote company with offices based in downtown Chicago. Applicants can be anywhere within the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, or a related field (Advanced degree preferred).
• 5+ years experience in K–12 curriculum development, instructional design, or education technology, with a track record of owning large, multi-phase projects from start to finish.
• Demonstrated expertise in using AI tools to generate instructional content, including building and managing the prompts, workflows, and version control across multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience collaborating across departments, earning trust through informed recommendations, and keeping projects aligned on quality and timelines while adapting smoothly when project needs shift.
• Proven ability to train teams and implement new technologies in ways that build on how the team already works.
• Deep knowledge of standards alignment, UDL principles, and public-sector compliance requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of prompt engineering and how LLMs work in practice.
• Able to cut through AI hype and make clear-eyed decisions about where the technology actually delivers business value.
• Able to take ambiguous or complex information and turn it into something concrete and actionable without needing a lot of direction to get there.
• Comfortable digging into a problem independently and experimenting until a more efficient path emerges.
• Able to translate personal expertise into clear processes and guidance that other people can learn from, replicate, and build on.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strategically guide the use of AI, ensuring that AI is always serving the work by recognizing when automation adds real value in time, cost, or quality, and when human instructional expertise needs to lead.
• Research AI tools by vetting new and emerging options against the real needs of our work while protecting client IP and our proprietary models and frameworks.
• Identify AI opportunities during the bidding stage that lead to more accurate pricing, resource planning, and project scoping.
• Partner with curriculum development, project management, and production teams to build workflows that efficiently and logically balance human expertise and what AI can reliably produce for high-quality outputs.
• Turn real project experience into repeatable processes by testing AI capabilities, documenting what works, building standardized workflows that apply across different projects, and improving the processes over time.
• Design and oversee the AI systems that produce first-draft instructional materials, building them around standards, client requirements, curriculum models, and compliance needs so the outputs are consistent and scalable.
• Own the quality of AI-generated content before it reaches the team for review, making sure it reflects project requirements, including sound instructional design and standards alignment.
• Build and lead training that goes beyond basic proficiency to genuine AI fluency across the team.
• Manage independent contractors and internal AI contributors, including ownership of AI phase timelines, budgets, and quality control, with direct accountability to the Senior Executive team.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director