Curriculum & Learning Specialist

Curriculum & Learning Specialist

New York or San Francisco

Full time

Hybrid

Customer Success

Kira is transforming how people learn by using AI to empower teachers to deliver personalized learning ’re backed by top investors and driven by a team that is deeply passionate about using technology to change education.

The Curriculum & Learning Specialist works to design courses, produce training materials, QA content, and deliver professional development. This is a role for someone who loves making high-quality educational content, enjoys teaching adults, is enthusiastic about using AI-powered learning tools to improve student outcomes and save teachers time, and wants to grow into a broader customer-facing and strategic function over time.

Curriculum Development and Content Creation

• Design and build courses aligned to customer contract requirements using Kira's AI-powered course creation tools and instructional design best practices
• Support large-scale course builds including domestic curriculum and international programs
• Conduct QA review for all customer-facing courses prior to release, including contractor-produced content, ensuring alignment with Kira's instructional standards
• Develop lesson plans, vocabulary lists, pacing guides, and standards crosswalks that help districts use Kira's platform for their own curriculum needs
• Design content with localization and multilingual audiences in mind, particularly for LATAM and international government partners

Professional Development Support and Delivery

• Develop and maintain training materials, facilitator guides, agendas, and speaker notes for PD sessions across domestic and international accounts
• Produce contractor-ready materials that allow Kira's growing facilitator network to deliver sessions independently without sacrificing quality
• Co-facilitate in-person and virtual PD sessions during initial engagements, progressing toward independent facilitation for assigned accounts over time
• Own follow-up commitments from PD sessions, communicating resolution promptly to the customer and assigned Customer Success Manager (CSM)
• Travel to facilitate in-person PD sessions as needed

Quality Assurance and Standards Alignment

• Review all customer-facing courses and training materials prior to delivery, flagging instructional gaps, alignment issues, or platform inconsistencies
• Understand when AI is useful, and when a human eye is necessary.
• Maintain and update standards crosswalk documentation as course content and state requirements evolve
• Ensure all curriculum reflects a 'teaching with Kira' lens — designed for whole-class instruction, real classroom contexts, and meaningful engagement, not just platform onboarding
• Support the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course update process to meet current College Board standards

Reporting and Documentation

• Maintain up-to-date records of training activity, curriculum deliverables, and session outcomes in Hub Spot
• Report training delivery metrics (sessions, participants, completion rates, qualitative feedback) to CS leadership for customer and partner reports
• Contribute to annual PD calendar development and summer planning

• Former educator: K-12 classroom experience is required, not preferred
• Strong instructional design background, ideally in K-12 and/or higher education
• Genuine curiosity about AI-powered tools and how they can support real classroom outcomes
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables, communicate proactively, and work independently in a distributed, fast-moving team
• Computer science or STEM education background
• Spanish language fluency
• Experience designing curriculum for multilingual, international, or non-traditional learner audiences
• Familiarity with AI-powered course creation tools or a demonstrated ability to learn new EdTech platforms quickly
• Experience writing facilitator guides or contractor-ready training materials
• A 'teaching with technology' orientation — always asking what will actually work in a classroom, not just what looks good on a slide deck
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists yet
• Willing to handle the 'repeat' work (the…