Jobs at Playlab

Lead product strategy and execution for an early-stage AI education platform. Prioritize capabilities, write detailed specifications, partner with engineering, ML, design, learning, and partnerships teams, gather educator feedback, establish product processes, and advance responsible AI, moderation, interpretability, and safety systems. The role requires making tradeoffs in ambiguity, shipping incrementally, and shaping how educators and students build AI applications.

Own product operations across intake, planning, launches, research, documentation, workflows, reporting, and dashboards. Coordinate cross-functional launch readiness and support product hiring, including interviews, candidate communication, debriefs, and pipeline tracking. Partner with product leadership to build scalable systems, improve processes, surface insights, and enable product, engineering, design, partnerships, and support teams to work effectively.

The Learning Partner supports NYC schools implementing AI literacy and instructional innovation. Responsibilities include building school relationships, designing and facilitating professional learning, coaching educators, supporting AI adoption, co-designing AI tools and learning experiences, guiding school leaders through change management, and sharing field insights to improve Playlab’s platform and resources.

Lead end-to-end product design at a nonprofit R&D/startup hybrid focused on educational AI. Research, prototype, and ship interaction patterns and workflows that empower educators to create AI tools. Balance rapid iteration with production-quality craft, collaborate closely with engineers and community, and drive design decisions informed by product sense, technical fluency with AI, and user research.

Lead Playlab's visual identity and produced assets across brand, web, motion, print, and storytelling. Translate complex AI and education concepts into clear, production-grade visuals and systems, collaborate with community and cross-functional teams, and drive projects from fuzzy brief through final deliverables using modern creative tools and AI-enabled workflows.

The Staff Fullstack Engineer will build AI-native interfaces, develop an application builder, and create collaboration features for educators, focusing on scalable systems and user-centered design.

As a Learning Engineer, you will build and prototype AI tools with educators, coach through the design process, and adapt to partner needs in a flexible role.

Serve as Playlab's Washington lead: recruit and support a cohort of ~10 school/district partners, design and deliver professional learning, coach educators on AI integration, coordinate with Gonzaga and ESDs, run three in-person convenings, support AI Innovation Index assessment, and bring field insights to improve Playlab's platform and programs.