Director, AP Engineering New Course Design (Education)

Location: Remote within the USA; employees near hirify.global offices may choose fully remote or hybrid work with Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the office. Occasional business travel is required.

Salary: $96,000–$135,000 annually, adjusted by location, experience, impact, and market data.

Company

hirify.global is a self-sustaining nonprofit developing AP courses, exams, instructional resources, and teacher professional learning programs.

What you will do

• Lead development of the AP Engineering course framework, skill progressions, and learning objectives with the AP Engineering Advisory Committee and senior instructional design leadership.
• Manage advisory committee milestones, deliverables, feedback, outreach, and framework completion.
• Develop and revise assessment items, scoring materials, stimuli, and rubrics aligned with the evolving course framework.
• Incorporate advisory committee, test development committee, and field-testing feedback into iterative framework and item revisions.
• Coordinate with psychometrics colleagues to assess early item designs against AP validity and fairness standards.
• Provide content feedback on instructional resources and professional learning materials.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Engineering or a directly related discipline and knowledge of current engineering trends.
• 5+ years of experience in professional learning, curriculum design, or standardized assessment development.
• Experience translating labor-market, postsecondary, or state CTE research or standards into instructional or assessment design decisions.
• Superior written and oral communication, organizational and planning skills, attention to detail, proofreading ability, and process implementation skills.
• Technical proficiency with Microsoft Office and browser-based tools.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with staff, subject-matter experts, and industry partners.
• Comfort working with ambiguity as priorities shift based on field-test data.
• Willingness to travel up to 8 times per year, with possible additional travel for field-test sites or advisory committee meetings.
• Authorization to work in the United States is required.
• Clear communication, a learner’s mindset, collaborative behavior, mission-driven focus, and willingness to experiment with AI-driven solutions are required for all hirify.global roles.

Nice to have

• Doctorate or significant industry credential.
• Experience with digital assessment and/or classroom teaching.

Culture & Benefits

• One-year full-time term position; potential conversion to a permanent Director role depends on final course approval, business need, and individual performance.
• Remote work is available; employees near hirify.global offices may work hybrid with required in-office days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Occasional in-person meetings, field-test visits, and advisory committee meetings are required.
• Nonprofit, mission-driven environment focused on expanding educational and career opportunities.
• Compensation is designed around qualifications, experience, impact, location, and market data, with the best offer made upfront.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and application; review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. The preferred deadline is Friday, November 13th.
• Process generally includes a recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as a curricular analysis memo and prototype sketch, panel interview, leadership conversation, and reference checks.
• The target start date is January.