Senior Instructional Designer, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $200,000/year USD in London

This role is designed for academic leaders who prefer to design the system rather than critique it from the outside. You bring the subject‑area fluency to recognize high‑caliber learning, the discipline to convert that insight into rubrics and AI‑driven quality measures, and the pragmatism to make fast decisions based on imperfect data. What matters to you is measurable student progress, and you are willing to be held accountable for that standard.

2 Hour Learning is pursuing an approach that most software and education organizations avoid. The model operates without teachers, textbooks, or a safety net of traditional pedagogy. AI serves as the foundation. In this position, you will deploy it to generate and refine instructional content, design targeted interventions, oversee quality standards, and advance the platform's capabilities. The operational tempo resembles high‑performance technology, consulting, or finance more than traditional education, and the trade‑off is direct accountability for student outcomes in your subject area across all campuses.

This position centers on operational leadership. You will develop AI‑powered enhancements to the learning ecosystem, respond to student‑performance data with focused interventions, produce evidence‑backed decision documentation, and guide a team according to explicit benchmarks linked to MAP, AP, SAT, and ISEE performance. You will also collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to shape platform priorities. This role suits someone who leads with AI, conducts their own analysis, executes under uncertainty, and takes full ownership of outcomes. It will not suit those who prefer consensus‑driven timelines, minimal accountability, or reliance on established frameworks.

You will occupy a central leadership position within the academics organization, wielding real authority over your subject's performance and the evolution of the broader learning infrastructure. Your colleagues will depend on your standards, your expertise, and your capacity to translate student data into action. If that prospect feels motivating rather than daunting, this role was designed with you in mind.

What You Will Be Doing

• Learning Ecosystem Enhancements — AI‑generated refinements to subject‑specific K‑12 learning experiences, spanning content, adaptive pathways, and student interventions, shaped by student feedback, analytics, assessments, and coaching insights.
• Data‑Driven Academic Interventions — Focused intervention strategies for underperforming students or cohorts, guided by MAP, AP, SAT, ISEE, and related assessment data.
• Student Performance Decision Records — Repeatable, evidence‑supported decisions that document actions taken to improve student performance, backed by dashboards, analytics, tickets, surveys, coaching calls, and assessment results.
• Learning Ecosystem Improvement Specs — Actionable specifications for product, engineering, and data science teams, detailing problem definitions, supporting evidence, anticipated student impact, and acceptance criteria.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Repackaging traditional education in an AI wrapper. This is not about digitizing classroom instruction – we are rethinking learning from first principles.
• Analyzing data in isolation. You will engage regularly with K‑12 students, treating their feedback as critical input from the customers we serve.
• Waiting for consensus to push boundaries. You will advocate for an ambitious vision and mobilize others around results grounded in data.
• Sticking to conventional methods. You will have the freedom to test novel approaches to motivation, assessment, and instruction.
• Fearing AI's impact on education. In this environment, you will leverage AI as a powerful instrument to transform learning, not as a risk to be contained.

Senior Instructional Designer Key Responsibilities

• Lead innovation in AI‑powered, teacher‑less education to produce outstanding student outcomes across multiple campuses.
• Integrate data analytics with ongoing student engagement to refine the learning ecosystem continuously, with success measured by AP exam performance 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.

2 Hour Learning is proving that education doesn’t have to be broken. 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 6.5× 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.

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.