Principal Learning Experience Designer (K-8 Math)

HMH

1d•$90,000 - $97,000•Remote

About The Position

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com Job Title: Principal Learning Experience Designer, Waggle K-8 Location: Fully Remote - May be performed from any State in the US.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in education, Instructional Design, or a field related to the discipline
7–8 years of experience in instructional design for K-8 Math students
AI usage in content development and process improvement
1-2 years of Agile Scrum experience
Demonstrates a proficiency in many systems, including Plankton, WebCMS, etc.
Sets up digital experiences effectively and consistently to ensure that the clearest data is available on the back end.
Seeks to understand and prioritize consistency across disciplines and connected solutions.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Agile methodology, JIRA (preferred)
Mastery of generative Ai tools, including Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
Data analysis/interpretation
Scrum team management (preferred)
Experience creating and using metadata (preferred)
Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing)
Constantly operate a computer
Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings
Must be capable of sitting, standing, and walking for extended periods of time

Nice To Haves

K-8 teaching experience
K-8 digital, supplemental math market experience (Waggle preferred)

Responsibilities

Apply relevant experience to plan, develop, and deliver high-quality, clearly written, pedagogically appropriate, digital-first solutions that solve specific market problems shared by teachers and students.
Lead a collaborative scrum team in solving a variety of demonstrated market problems.
Leverage data from a variety of sources and nurture innovative thinking across the team to develop the best solutions possible given the existing constraints.
Model problem-solving prowess, effective collaboration, and prioritization skills to deliver incremental value to users aligned with the company’s strategic plans.
Steward, advocate, and serve as an implementor of a consistent user experience, especially in digital.
Has K-8 mathematics expertise that is valued for product development.
Leverages prompt engineering and Ai use to accelerate content development and improve process efficiencies.
Shares expertise/expectations across teams in a way that is actionable and leads to consistency.
Plan and develop grade-level-appropriate, standards-aligned content and metadata for digital mediums.
Keep what students must learn and be able to do at the forefront of any content development.
Demonstrate strong understanding of the end-user experience and uses that understanding to drive product development decisions and work.
Develop expertise in Waggle’s digital authoring experience and interfaces with partners in engineering to expand authoring capabilities.
Make or recommend smart development decisions to future-proof or scale the work without sacrificing quality and usability—making sure to validate approaches across teams.
Understand and abide by other compliance/regulatory factors or market trends that will impact decisions, knowing to what degree those requirements should drive product decisions and how they may impact user experience.
Serve as a Product Owner on a scrum team responsible for solving more complex teaching and learning problems.
Rely on discovery and data analysis to test, develop, deliver, and iteratively optimize solutions in a variety of media formats.
Guide scrum team in setting priorities.
Manage the product backlog and hold the team accountable to sprint plans.
Deliver value to customers in keeping with capacity constraints, budget, interdependencies across teams, and market expectations, often arriving at and advocating for fresh, innovative solutions that surprise and delight users.
Understand, apply, and model agile story-pointing to enable the scrum team to carry out high-quality iterative development.
Use retrospectives to solve problems and improve team output and collaboration.
Work independently with internal groups/vendors on cross-team/cross-company initiatives.
Develop and implement change management strategies and plans as needed.
Actively use research to help drive team decisions to develop solutions for a wide variety of users based on market problems and needs.
Collaborate with the Research team to identify goals for testing.
Ensure that research is carried out and results implemented.
Understand the data available and use that data to inform product development.
Seek out, apply, and synthesize data from a variety of sources, including HMH's teaching and learning platform, to address market problems with input from key stakeholders.
Ensure that the scrum team understands and utilizes usage and efficacy data to iterate/improve upon instructional content.
Deliver iterative solutions on time and within budget that meet market needs as measured by product sales, customer testimonials, and platform usage data.
Clearly communicate program goals and philosophy with core and extended scrum team.
Foster scrum team efficiency, morale, and success.
Proactively seek out and apply learnings from relevant connections across all LXD, across departments, or even lines of business.