Senior Director of AI-Enabled Instruction, Math

Leading Educators Careers

1d • Remote

About The Position

At Leading Educators (LE), we know that excellent teaching is the most important driver of student success. The moment a student steps foot in the classroom, their opportunity to learn depends on how prepared their teacher is to translate complex content knowledge, standards, and their knowledge of that student into lessons that help them learn deeply and apply their thinking to the world. That’s a big lift, and it often happens alone. As a national nonprofit, we partner with school systems to overcome persistent instructional challenges, foster intentional collaboration and adult learning by design, and ignite new possibilities through systemic solutions at the intersection of teaching, talent, and technology. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with educators at every level of the education system to strengthen their instructional and leadership practices, bring a vision for excellent instruction to life with consistency, and ensure every student reaches their full potential. Through direct support, strategic advising, innovation pilots, and best-in-class research, we help educators work toward a future where every student is ready to thrive. Learn more about our work at leadingeducators.org.

As the Senior Director of AI-Enabled Instruction, Math, you will lead the national strategy of Leading Educators' groundbreaking approach to integrating AI into math curriculum support, coaching, and instructional leadership across multiple district partnerships. This is not a role confined to theory—you'll be translating emerging AI tools and practices into powerful, instructionally sound strategies that directly accelerate student learning. You'll manage a team of three Directors of AI-Enabled Instruction, Math, ensuring fidelity to Leading Educators' model while fostering the localized innovation that meets each partnership's unique needs.

You'll lead Year 2 of the Math AI Impact Network, a research pilot designed to intentionally test the impact of AI-enabled professional learning on math instruction and student outcomes. Building on critical Year 1 learning about implementation conditions, tool design, and district readiness, you'll scale this work across three established district partnerships and new sites participating in a randomized control trial. Research integrity, study fidelity, and robust data collection systems are core to your success. This role demands someone who can bridge the gap between vision and implementation—someone who understands that the most powerful innovations happen at the intersection of rigorous research and real-world execution.

As a strategic thought partner to district and system leaders, you'll ensure scopes of work align with broader instructional priorities while building the conditions for long-term sustainability. You'll collaborate across internal teams and learning networks to surface insights, monitor progress through evaluation strategies, and scale the bright spots that blend technology and pedagogy to advance student success. Over time, as the current portfolio matures, this role will evolve to lead both ongoing implementation and the design of next-generation pilots in AI-enabled math—continuing to generate and test new bets that advance Leading Educators' learning agenda and deepen impact.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of leadership experience in a school, school system, or education nonprofit organization, with increasing responsibility for content-specific instructional improvement
• Demonstrated success leading a team and managing distributed leadership across multiple sites or functions
• Deep knowledge and successful application of standards-based instruction, assessment, and math curriculum implementation
• Strong planning, project management, and strategic decision-making skills, including the ability to build and sustain implementation infrastructure across multiple sites simultaneously
• Experience leading professional learning, integrating AI tools into instructional routines, and supporting systemic instructional improvement at scale
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and leading in complex, rapidly evolving contexts, approaching uncertainty with inquiry and bringing structured tradeoff analysis to contested decisions
• Familiarity with possibilities for integrating AI into coherent district support models, instructional routines, coaching, and professional learning

Nice To Haves

• Leading research-driven pilots or innovation initiatives where learning and organizational impact are simultaneous goals, with demonstrated understanding of research integrity, hypothesis-testing, and working in a learning model
• Math content, adult learning design, facilitation best practices, and content-based teacher development—with deep knowledge of math curriculum-specific implementation (Illustrative Mathematics and/or Eureka)
• AI-powered tools in education, including instructional tools designed for teacher and leader use, tools districts are independently adopting, and emerging tools across the EdTech landscape
• Building and sustaining trusting relationships across diverse stakeholders—from senior district leadership to classroom teachers—while navigating complex, rapidly evolving contexts with structured decision-making
• Coaching and developing others—both team members and system-level stakeholders—with a track record of building distributed leadership capacity across multiple sites
• Using implementation data, partner feedback, and continuous improvement routines to refine strategies while maintaining alignment with research requirements and instructional integrity
• Identifying signals in the field and designing pilots that test original hypotheses about where AI-enabled instruction is headed
• Codifying promising practices into resources, playbooks, and recommendations that influence organizational strategy and scale impact across the sector

Responsibilities

• Lead the national strategy of Leading Educators' approach to integrating AI into math curriculum support, coaching, and instructional leadership.
• Manage a team of three Directors of AI-Enabled Instruction, Math.
• Lead Year 2 of the Math AI Impact Network, a research pilot.
• Scale AI-enabled professional learning across established district partnerships and new sites.
• Ensure research integrity, study fidelity, and robust data collection systems.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to district and system leaders.
• Ensure scopes of work align with broader instructional priorities.
• Build conditions for long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate across internal teams and learning networks to surface insights.
• Monitor progress through evaluation strategies.
• Scale bright spots that blend technology and pedagogy.
• Lead ongoing implementation and design of next-generation pilots in AI-enabled math.
• Generate and test new bets that advance Leading Educators' learning agenda and deepen impact.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees
• Additional premium costs are covered 60% by Leading Educators for partners and dependents on medical, dental, and vision plans
• 4% matching 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare and commuter expenses
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 22 days of paid time off per year for the first three years of employment
• Five additional days of paid time off accrued after the third and sixth year of employment
• 22 additional paid days off for various holidays, including three floating holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees