Director, AI Solutions

CSA Education • Full-time • Remote (Hybrid in Chicago, Illinois, United States) • $75,000 - $90,000 / year • 3w ago

Fast Facts

The Director of AI Solutions at Zia Learning will lead the design and implementation of AI curriculum generation to create scalable instructional materials for K-12 education, ensuring compliance and quality across projects.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include overseeing the design of AI-driven educational models, maintaining the integrity of AI-generated materials, managing workflow pipelines, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet project needs.

Skills: Required skills include expertise in K-12 curriculum development, AI-assisted content generation, and the ability to work with diverse client specifications and educational standards.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in Education or related field, five years of relevant experience, and proficiency in scalable AI systems design.

Location: This is a remote position available to candidates within the United States with occasional travel requirements for client meetings.

Compensation: $75000 - $90000 / Annually

Director, AI Solutions

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: President, Zia Learning

About CSA Education and Zia Learning

At CSA Education, we're more than just an educational content and services provider – we're a dedicated partner committed to our clients’ success. What truly defines us are our core values, the heart of everything we do. These values guide every decision we make and shape every interaction both with our clients, and with our internal staff. We pride ourselves on our welcoming culture, our dedicated team, and our innovative approach to delivering high-quality solutions.

Zia Learning, a subsidiary of CSA Education, delivers innovative digital solutions, customized curriculum, and professional development to transform teaching and learning for the future. We are proud that Zia was founded by teachers and district leaders. We understand the technology, as well as the pedagogy behind effective digital and personalized teaching practices. This is critical to authentically engaging teachers in the process of re-envisioning teaching and learning for next-gen classrooms. Understanding the challenges faced by districts and schools allows the Zia team to serve as a true partner in the process.

About the Role

The Director, AI Solutions leads the design and implementation of AI curriculum generation that transform complex client requirements into scalable, quality-controlled instructional materials. This role synthesizes standards, district/client specifications, compliance constraints, and instructional frameworks into structured AI architectures to produce a high-integrity V1 curriculum ready for human refinement and production. Working cross-functionally with learning and school solutions, project management, and production teams, the Director ensures AI systems increase operational efficiency, reduce time and cost, and elevate overall curriculum quality across large-scale district and state engagements.

CSA Education / Zia Learning is an entirely remote company with offices based in downtown Chicago. Applicants can be anywhere within the United States.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Lead the strategic design of AI-driven K–12 education models, curriculum, and instructional supports, ensuring alignment with project requirements, client expectations, state standards, and approved instructional frameworks.
Architect and oversee project-wide AI prompt infrastructure, translating education standards, client/district requirements, needs analysis, instructional documentation, curriculum models, exemplar prototypes, templates, and compliance constraints into scalable, modular generation systems.
Own the integrity, consistency, and scalability of AI-generated V1 materials, ensuring outputs reflect instructional coherence, UDL integration, and standards alignment logic, prior to handoff to the team for human review and production.
Direct the AI content team in establishing workflow pipelines, version control processes, and continuous optimization loops across projects.
Partner with learning and school solutions, production, and project management teams to ensure AI systems reflect project needs, expected outcomes, and requirements, and proactively identify structural risks or misalignments before content generation begins.
Oversee AI tool stack, generation methodologies, and innovation strategy, continuously evaluating emerging technologies while safeguarding proprietary backward design models and digital frameworks.

Supervisory Responsibility

The AI Systems Director will manage independent contractors and coordinate with project managers. Managing contractors entails ownership of AI phase timelines, budget, and quality in coordination with project managers and with accountability to the Senior Executive team.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required in Education, Curriculum, Instructional Design, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).
At least 5 years of experience in K–12 curriculum development, instructional systems design, education technology, or enterprise content architecture, with demonstrated responsibility for large, multi-phase projects.
Proven experience designing scalable, repeatable systems that translate complex client requirements, standards, and documentation into structured frameworks or generation models.
Demonstrated expertise in AI-assisted content generation and prompt architecture, including building modular, version-controlled workflows across multiple concurrent projects.
Experience leading cross-functional teams while maintaining quality control, timeline integrity, and adaptability across varied client contexts.

Competencies

Extensive knowledge of K–12 standards alignment and public-sector curriculum compliance environments.
Demonstrated experience in architecting scalable AI usage across large, multi-phase projects.
Experience leading cross-functional technical and instructional teams.
Proven ability to synthesize large volumes of diverse client materials, specifications, templates, and compliance requirements into modular AI generation architectures that can scale across varied project contexts.
Demonstrated ability to implement AI systems across multiple concurrent projects while maintaining coherence, quality control, and adaptability to client-specific differences.

Additional Details

This is a full-time staff position.
Starting salary range: $75,000 to $90,000
Flexible schedule within regular business hours

Work Environment

This job operates in a remote office environment within the 48 contiguous states. This role routinely uses standard office equipment, and appropriate hardware and software will be provided. The employee is required to maintain high-speed internet access.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

Travel

Position may require up to 10% travel. This travel is primarily overnight to attend in-person client meetings and conferences.

EEO Statement

CSA Education LLC and its subsidiaries, including Zia Learning, provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, CSA Education LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.