Curriculum Designer

Position Overview

The Instructional Designer will report to the Curriculum Manager and play a central role in developing, maintaining, and enhancing courses across academic subject areas, ensuring that they are pedagogically sound, accessible, policy-aligned, and consistently delivered. This hybrid role combines instructional design expertise with course coordination responsibilities to support faculty, improve learning experiences, and maintain academic integrity and continuity across sections and terms.

What You'll Do

Instructional Design & Curriculum Development

• Design, revise, and evaluate courses in collaboration with Program Directors & the Academic Team, using evidence-based instructional practices, digital learning tools, and established academic frameworks.

• Build accessible, engaging, and inclusive learning materials aligned with institutional policies, curriculum standards, and clearly defined learning outcomes, securing review and approval as required.

• Develop assessments, rubrics, and learning activities that support measurable outcomes and maintain academic rigor, in partnership with Program Directors and academic leadership.

• Ensure course content meets campus expectations for accessibility, online teaching standards, higher education best practices, and integration with student support services, coordinating approvals through established academic processes.

• Maintain a well-organized curriculum management system, ensuring that course materials are accessible to faculty, students, and administrators.

Faculty Support & Training

• Maintain master course shells and ensure alignment and consistency across multiple course sections.

• Oversee regular updates to syllabi, assignments, and learning materials each term to ensure policy compliance and curricular coherence.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for faculty teaching assigned courses, supporting them with course navigation, materials, expectations, and instructional clarifications.

• Design and deliver faculty training and professional development to keep instructors current on effective teaching strategies, curriculum updates, and instructional technologies.

• Monitor course delivery for alignment with institutional policies, including accommodations, academic integrity guidelines, and communication standards.

Teaching & Platform Engagement

• Teach a minimum of one course per quarter within your suite of courses to remain directly connected to the student experience.

• Stay closely aligned with student needs, learning challenges, and engagement patterns by actively participating in the instructional platform.

• Maintain hands-on familiarity with platform requirements, instructional constraints, and emerging opportunities to inform course design and faculty support.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

• Collect and analyze feedback from students and faculty to inform ongoing course and curriculum improvements.

• Support program review, accreditation processes, and documentation related to learning outcomes and assessment.

• Identify opportunities to streamline instructional processes, improve course structure, and enhance student engagement at scale.

Innovation

• Leverage Campus tools and educational technologies, including AI-enabled platforms, to design, maintain, and iterate curriculum at scale.

• Ensure curriculum remains adaptable, relevant, and responsive to evolving industry needs, institutional priorities, and student populations.

• Explore and pilot new instructional approaches, technologies, and workflows that improve efficiency, quality, and learning outcomes without compromising academic standards.

About You

• Master’s degree or higher in education or a related field, with a strong preference for candidates holding an advanced degree in their subject area or a closely related discipline.

• Demonstrated subject-matter expertise in a specific academic or professional domain aligned with the courses supported.

• College-level teaching experience, preferably in online environments, with direct responsibility for course delivery, assessment, and student engagement.

• Ability to translate deep disciplinary knowledge into accessible, outcomes-driven curriculum for diverse student populations.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with faculty, including leading training, supporting instructional improvement, and partnering with instructors to implement necessary curriculum or course-level changes.

What You Bring

• A commitment to creating inclusive, policy-aligned, and high-impact learning environments.

• A detail-oriented mindset with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines.

• A passion for instructional innovation and continuous improvement.

Our Commitment

We value equity, diversity, and inclusion, and we embed these principles into our instructional design practices, campus policies, and collaborative culture. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Location: New York City (NYC In-office Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

What You'll Get

A compensation package that includes a base salary ($60K - $80K) + equity grant. Teaching one course per quarter is required and included in base compensation.

• Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location.

• Medical Insurance + free Dental and Vision Insurance

• 401(k) match

• “Take what you need” PTO + several paid holidays

• In-office lunches for our NY Office (did we mention, we’re dog friendly? 🐶)

• Flexible working hours & a hybrid work schedule (Mon & Fri remote; Tues-Thurs in-office)

• Social events - happy hours, birthday celebrations, holiday parties, & more

• Opportunity to make an impact – you’ll be an integral player in bringing our vision to life

Additional course compensation: May teach up to four courses (as available) per quarter total. Courses taught beyond the one required course are compensated as follows:

• $8,000 per 4-credit course

• $5,000 per 2-credit course