As a Math Curriculum Development Manager, you will play a key role in developing and refining educational materials that will inspire and train the next generation of great problem solvers. In this role, you will manage a team of curriculum developers while also tackling curriculum development projects yourself.
The Math Curriculum Development Manager will:
- Lead a small team of three to six curriculum developers, allocating team resources, ensuring high-quality development standards, meeting critical timelines, and fostering team members' growth in key curriculum writing skills
- Develop, implement, and improve team processes, and lead the creation and maintenance of team documentation
- Act as a consultant and strategic partner to team members, serving as a knowledge base of information
- Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team
- Create a tight feedback loop, ensuring the team regularly engages with students, teachers, and customers
- Outline and develop new courses and other educational materials
- Improve existing materials based on student performance data as well as student and teacher feedback
- Review and provide feedback on outlines and educational materials created by other curriculum developers
- Participate in teacher training and the creation of training materials, if relevant
- Hone understanding of students, teachers, and customers, which may include teaching courses
The ideal candidate has:
- An advanced degree in a field closely related to mathematics or computer science
- A minimum of 3-5 years of experience teaching advanced math (or related) topics and/or developing advanced math (or related) educational materials for gifted & motivated students, ideally including significant experience in both areas at the college level
- Strong experience with and understanding of college-level students who in their target audience and the teachers who will deliver their content
- Demonstrated ability to make good cost-benefit decisions
- Strong understanding of our purchasers' wants and needs
- Strong math content knowledge
- Excellent writing skills, with the ability to translate complex math concepts into clear, engaging, and understandable content for their target audience
- Excellent editing skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven ability to communicate effectively and proactively with project stakeholders
- Strong creativity, with the ability to develop original problems and puzzles
- Readily seeks out and learns from feedback
- Passion for education
- Previous people or project management experience preferred
Why Join AoPS:
This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this position is 110k-130k. Here are some things you can look forward to:
- Impact: Lead curriculum development for the programs that train nearly all US Math Olympiad team members and thousands of the nation's top young problem solvers.
- Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
- Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- Future Planning: 401(k) with company match
- Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
- Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)
- Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
Background Check:
Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.
Work Authorization:
Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.
About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.
Skills Required
- Advanced degree in mathematics or computer science (or closely related field)
- 3-5 years teaching advanced math or developing advanced math educational materials for gifted students (college-level experience ideal)
- Strong experience with and understanding of college-level students and teachers
- Strong math content knowledge
- Excellent writing and editing skills; ability to translate complex math into clear engaging content
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven ability to communicate effectively and proactively with project stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to make cost-benefit decisions and understand purchasers' wants and needs
- Creativity in developing original problems and puzzles
- Readily seeks out and learns from feedback; passion for education
- Previous people or project management experience
- Hybrid full-time presence at San Diego, CA headquarters
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US; employer does not sponsor visas
What We Do
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is dedicated to discovering, inspiring, and training the next generation of problem solvers. Since 2003, we've empowered over a million top students with our innovative problem solving curriculum. While our roots are in math, AoPS has expanded to language arts, science, and computer science to meet the growing challenges of the 21st century. At AoPS, students master the skills to tackle complex problems they’ve never seen before—the key to success in academics, careers, and life. Our programs, AoPS Online, AoPS Academy, and Beast Academy offer a wide range of deliveries to best support our learners' needs, including self-paced, in-person, and online class options. Follow us as we grow and join our team of builders, collaborators, and life-long learners!
Why Work With Us
AoPS brings together creative thinkers and problem solvers from diverse backgrounds. Our team includes builders, gamers, puzzle masters, crafters, writers, adventurers, artists, animal lovers, fitness gurus--in every combination! We are connected by our passion for helping students succeed and become the next generation of leaders.
