Senior Instructional Designer

This role is designed for academic leaders who prefer to design systems rather than critique them from the sidelines. You understand your discipline well enough to recognize high-quality learning outcomes, possess the discipline to translate that understanding into rubrics and AI-driven quality mechanisms, and maintain the pragmatism to execute decisively when working with incomplete data. Student improvement matters to you, and you are prepared to be measured by those results.

2 Hour Learning pursues an objective that most software and education organizations avoid. There are no instructors, no traditional textbooks, and no safety net of conventional teaching methods supporting the product. AI serves as the core operational framework. In this position, you will leverage it to produce and refine learning materials, architect interventions, oversee quality standards, and advance the platform's capabilities. The working tempo resembles high-performance technology, consulting, or finance environments more than traditional education settings, and the reward is full ownership of student outcomes for your subject across multiple campuses.

This position centers on operational leadership. You will construct AI-driven enhancements to the learning ecosystem, deploy targeted interventions based on student performance data, produce evidence-backed decision documentation, and lead a team according to explicit standards linked to MAP, AP, SAT, and ISEE performance. You will also collaborate directly with product, engineering, and data science to shape the platform's development roadmap. This role suits someone who instinctively turns to AI, independently conducts analysis, delivers work amid uncertainty, and accepts full accountability for outcomes. It will challenge anyone who gravitates toward consensus-driven workflows, minimal accountability structures, or the security of established methods.

You will serve as a senior leader within the academics organization, wielding meaningful authority over your subject's performance and the evolution of the broader learning infrastructure. The team will depend on your standards, your analytical judgment, and your capacity to transform student data into concrete action. If that prospect feels energizing instead of overwhelming, this role was likely designed with you in mind.

What You Will Be Doing

• Learning Ecosystem Enhancements — AI-powered refinements to subject-specific K–12 learning environments spanning content, adaptive pathways, and student interventions, shaped by student feedback, performance analytics, assessments, and coaching data.
• Data-Driven Academic Interventions — Focused intervention strategies for underperforming students or groups, informed by MAP, AP, SAT, ISEE, and comparable performance metrics.
• Student Performance Decision Records — Scalable, evidence-supported decisions that document actions taken to improve student performance, backed by dashboards, analytics, tickets, surveys, coaching sessions, and assessment results.
• Learning Ecosystem Improvement Specs — Actionable specifications for product, engineering, and data science teams, detailing problem statements, supporting evidence, anticipated student impact, and acceptance criteria.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Repackaging traditional education in an AI wrapper. This isn't about digitizing classroom instruction – we're fundamentally rethinking learning from first principles.
• Analyzing data in isolation. You'll maintain regular contact with K-12 students, treating their feedback as critical input from our paying customers.
• Waiting for consensus to push boundaries. You'll advocate for an ambitious vision and mobilize others around data-backed outcomes.
• Sticking to conventional methods. You'll have the freedom to test innovative strategies for motivation, assessment, and instruction.
• Fearing AI's impact on education. Here, you'll embrace AI as a powerful lever to transform learning, not as a risk to be contained.

Senior Instructional Designer Key Responsibilities

Lead innovation in AI-powered, teacher-less education to achieve outstanding student outcomes across multiple campuses. Integrate data analytics with ongoing student engagement to continuously refine our learning ecosystem, measured by AP exam results and MAP assessment growth.

Basic Requirements

• Master's degree or higher in Educational Science, Learning Science, Psychology, Psychometrics, Instructional Design, or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in academic or EdTech leadership roles, with direct people management responsibility (hiring, performance evaluation, coaching, termination decisions)
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools as part of day-to-day professional workflows, and willingness to rely on AI extensively to improve academic and operational outcomes.
• Strong understanding of learning science principles, such as Cognitive Load Theory and Mayer's Multimedia Principles, and data-driven educational approaches

About 2 Hour Learning

Education is broken, but 2 Hour Learning is proving it doesn’t have to be. They’re tearing down the outdated one-size-fits-all model and replacing it with AI-driven personalized learning that helps kids master academics in just two hours a day.

With students consistently ranking in the top 1-2% nationally and the top 20% achieving an astonishing 6.5x growth, they’re proving that smarter learning is possible. At 2 Hour Learning, it’s talent and performance that matter.

They offer a dynamic, on-campus and remote-friendly environment where innovators, educators, and AI specialists can be a part of fixing a broken school system.

2 Hour Learning is reprogramming learning for the AI era.

Here’s How They’re Fixing It.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4549-AU-Perth-SeniorInstruct.004