Senior Learning Designer, Indian Languages

Responsibilities

• Lead curriculum and learning design for one or more South Asian languages, starting with Hindi, balancing learner engagement, cultural relevance, and measurable learning impact.
• Use human-in-the-loop AI workflows and prompt engineering to generate and refine high-quality content while maintaining quality standards.
• Establish and maintain content quality systems, including guidelines, rubrics, and review workflows, to ensure linguistic accuracy, difficulty calibration, consistency, and brand voice.
• Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and Scaling Operations to plan roadmaps, ship experiments, and build scalable content-generation processes.
• Contribute to strategy for teaching Hindi and other South Asian languages, informed by the broader regional linguistic and cultural context.
• Identify, recruit, onboard, and manage freelance educators, linguists, cultural consultants, and language reviewers.

Requirements

• Deep proficiency in Hindi and substantial experience teaching Hindi as an additional language.
• Experience designing Hindi curricula.
• India-centered cultural and regional expertise, including understanding of South Asian sociolinguistic and sociopolitical contexts.
• Knowledge of language identity, script, register, standardization, multilingualism, regional variation, and cross-border language communities.
• Familiarity with Hindi’s place in the Indo-Aryan language family and its relationship with Urdu, Punjabi, and Bengali.
• Linguistics training, including language typology, with the ability to apply typological awareness to unfamiliar languages.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to distinguish errors from acceptable variation.
• Creativity, product sense, and ability to make learning experiences approachable, playful, culturally meaningful, and motivating.
• Strong project management, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Graduate degree or equivalent practical experience in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Linguistics, Instructional Design, Learning Science, Indian or South Asian Languages, South Asian Studies, or a related field.
• The role must be based in Pittsburgh, PA; remote or other locations are not accommodated.

Nice-to-haves

• Working familiarity with Dravidian languages, particularly Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.
• Understanding of typological and pedagogical differences between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families.
• Experience building human-in-the-loop generative-AI workflows for multilingual educational content.
• Experience designing consumer-facing mobile or app-based language-learning products.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $142,800–$193,200 USD.
• Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation.
• Benefits support employees’ holistic well-being.