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

This role is for an academic leader who prefers designing the system to critiquing it. You possess sufficient subject mastery to recognize high-quality learning when you see it, the rigor to translate that understanding into rubrics and AI-driven quality controls, and the pragmatism to act decisively on incomplete data. Student improvement matters to you, and you accept accountability for that measure.

2 Hour Learning pursues an objective rarely seen in software or education. There are no teachers, textbooks, or traditional instructional scaffolding beneath the product. AI serves as the operational foundation. In this capacity, you employ it to generate and refine learning materials, design interventions, oversee quality, and advance the platform. The tempo resembles high-performance technology, consulting, or finance more than conventional schooling, and the reward is direct responsibility for subject-level student outcomes across campuses.

This position involves managing a function. You will construct AI-driven enhancements to the learning ecosystem, address student performance signals through targeted interventions, produce evidence-based decision documentation, and lead a team accountable to explicit standards tied to MAP, AP, SAT, and ISEE outcomes. You will also collaborate closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to shape platform priorities. It suits someone who defaults to AI, conducts their own analysis, delivers amid uncertainty, and fully owns results. It will frustrate those who favor consensus-driven timelines, minimal accountability, or the security of established methods.

You will serve as a core leader within the academics team, wielding genuine influence over your subject's performance and the evolution of the broader learning system. Your colleagues will depend on your standards, your judgment, and your capacity to translate student data into action. If that prospect feels energizing rather than daunting, you are likely the individual this role was designed for.

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 students or cohorts falling behind, informed by MAP, AP, SAT, ISEE, and comparable performance metrics.
• Student Performance Decision Records — Repeatable, evidence-backed decisions that document actions taken to improve student performance, reinforced by dashboards, analytics, tickets, surveys, coaching interactions, and assessment data.
• Learning Ecosystem Improvement Specs — Implementation-ready specifications for enhancements involving product, engineering, and data science, including problem definitions, supporting evidence, anticipated student impact, and acceptance criteria.
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Repackaging traditional education behind an AI facade. This is not about replicating classroom instruction on screens—we are fundamentally rethinking learning from first principles.
• Analyzing data in a vacuum. Regular engagement with K-12 students is expected, with their feedback treated as critical input from our paying customers.
• Waiting for consensus before challenging norms. You will advocate a bold vision and mobilize others around data-driven outcomes.
• Adhering to conventional practices. You will have latitude to experiment with novel approaches to motivation, assessment, and instruction.
• Fearing AI's role in education. Here, you will leverage AI as a powerful catalyst to transform learning, not a threat requiring mitigation.
  
  

Instructional Designer Key Responsibilities

Drive innovation in AI-powered, teacher-less education to produce outstanding student outcomes across multiple campuses. Integrate data analytics with consistent student engagement to continually refine our learning ecosystem, 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
  
  

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-ID-Denpasar-InstructionalD.001