Sr Dir, Education Technology Innovation

Senior Director, Education Technology Innovation

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP:
Chief Education and Global Health Officer

Provide strategic leadership for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ education technology innovation, digital learning platforms, AI-enabled education strategy, learning product development, and course production operations. Lead the development of a modern, learner-centered digital education ecosystem that supports AAP’s mission, strengthens member and customer value, improves revenue performance, and positions AAP as a leader in pediatric education.

• Lead AAP’s education technology innovation strategy, including the identification, evaluation, testing, and implementation planning of emerging tools and approaches that can strengthen pediatric education, learner experience, operational efficiency, and business performance.
• Develop and guide AAP’s AI strategy for education for both internal efficiency and learning innovation. Identify practical AI use cases, support safe and responsible adoption, develop repeatable workflows and guidance, and evaluate AI-enabled learning models such as conversational simulations, adaptive feedback, learner coaching, scenario-based practice, personalized remediation, multilingual learning, and AI-supported assessment.
• Cultivate awareness of trends in medical education, pediatrics, CME, healthcare technology, AI, simulation, digital learning, learner behavior, and education product innovation. Use this knowledge to inform AAP’s long-term education technology roadmap, identify emerging opportunities, and ensure AAP remains competitive and relevant to current and future pediatric learners.
• Identify grant-funded and externally supported innovation opportunities that align with AAP’s education technology strategy. Partner with internal stakeholders to shape fundable project concepts, connect innovation ideas to potential funding sources, and ensure grant-funded initiatives support scalable long-term strategy.
• Provide strategic leadership for AAP’s learning platform ecosystem, including the future learning management system, education platforms, publishing-related workflows, search/discoverability, identity and access, commerce, membership integration, learner data, reporting, and cross-platform user experience.
• Lead the education platform identification and management process, ensuring that requirements are grounded in learner needs, future education strategy, instructional models, AI readiness, mobile access, accessibility, CME/MOC requirements, global delivery, analytics, integrations, operational workflows, and long-term scalability.
• Contribute to publishing and digital content ecosystem strategy, especially where education, publishing, authoring, review workflows, content reuse, metadata, search, licensing, and AI readiness intersect. Help distinguish platform limitations from workflow, governance, metadata, authoring, and user-experience challenges.
• Establish governance, requirements, evaluation criteria, decision gates, and pilot strategies for major education technology and platform initiatives. Translate business, learner, staff, and technical needs into actionable roadmaps, vendor requirements, implementation priorities, and success measures.
• Lead digital product delivery and production operations for AAP education products. Oversee the processes, teams, and external partners responsible for moving educational concepts from intake through instructional design, SME collaboration, multimedia development, copyediting, LMS build, quality assurance, accessibility review, launch readiness, maintenance, and post-launch improvement.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop assigned staff, including instructional design,…