Lead Learning Scientist

• Expert-level knowledge of the learning sciences, instructional design, and cognitive or behavioural science.

• The ability to translate learning science into clear, specific requirements that technical teams can build against — you make pedagogy build-able.

• Strong working practice in evaluating and measuring learning impact (for example mastery, retention and transfer), including designing studies and deciding what data to capture.

• Experience working with technical teams — engineers, data scientists or product developers — to shape what gets built. You need not have written the code yourself, but you have influenced how real systems were designed and can hold credibility with the people who build them.

• Technical literacy in how AI systems are built, with a genuine appetite to deepen that knowledge quickly.

• Excellent communication skills: able to influence senior stakeholders — internally and client-side — and to represent the discipline externally.

• Hands-on experience building AI-driven or adaptive learning systems.

• Familiarity with LLM architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation harnesses or learning analytics pipelines.

• Experience across multiple client or product contexts — for example consulting, agency or platform settings serving many institutions.

• Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)

• Project Deep Dive with the Head of Education (60 minutes) — you will walk us through one project you have led from conception to delivery

• Case Study and Technical Interview (60 minutes) — we will send you the brief 72 hours ahead

• Cultural and Leadership Interview (60 minutes)

We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.