Relias
Director, Curriculum Design
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Morrisville, NC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ September 7th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Relias is hiring a Director, Curriculum Design responsible for overseeing the strategic development, implementation, and delivery of vertical-specific educational roadmaps. The role involves managing teams, collaborating with Product Management, analyzing industry trends, and ensuring course content meets instructional design best practices.
Highlights
- Lead and manage a curriculum design and writing team, including hiring, coaching, and professional development.
- Manage capacity, resources, budgets, and risk to ensure timely delivery of educational roadmaps.
- Collaborate with Product Management to align vertical strategy and content development with market needs.
- Apply industry-specific knowledge and instructional design principles to support product development.
- Analyze learner feedback, NPS, and client input to identify content improvements.
- Require a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, 3+ years leadership, 5+ years training development/delivery, and 7+ years in the relevant market vertical.
- Strong skills in leadership, strategic planning, data analysis, problem-solving, and communication.
- Preferred experience includes 2+ years in senior management/leadership roles.
- Relias offers comprehensive health benefits, 401k match, flexible PTO, and flexible work environment.
- The position requires working part-time onsite at the Morrisville, NC office with a hybrid schedule.
Director, Curriculum Design Full Description
Job Description
Director, Curriculum Design
Are you looking for a high energy, strategic, and fast-paced position as a Director, Curriculum Design? Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!
For 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements. We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent. Join us and make a difference.
WHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?
- Fantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!
- Flexible work environment with onsite and work from home options – you choose when you want to come into the office!
- Active Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!
- Comprehensive onboarding program – a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!
- Growth and career advancement opportunities!
- 20%+ annual employee promotion and transfer rate
- Multiple development program options – leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science
- Professional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech
- Onsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees
The Director of Curriculum Design oversees strategic development, implementation, and delivery of the vertical-specific roadmap, develops systems to support the team, and uses industry knowledge and instructional design/adult learning principles to support vertical-specific product development in collaboration with Content Operations and Product Management.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
• Perform basic management/leadership responsibilities for direct reports (e.g., 1-1 meetings, performance reviews, coaching, professional development, hiring, onboarding).
• Manage and track capacity, resource needs, and budgets for vertical roadmap, identify risks, and work with stakeholders to ensure delivery of roadmap.
• Implement short- and long-term strategic plans for product development and library maintenance based on identified priorities and business needs in collaboration with VP of Curriculum Design.
• Collaborate with Product Management on vertical strategy related to roadmap and content development, and provide input, based on industry and market knowledge.
• Develop and oversee vertical CD and writing team and work with VP of Curriculum Design to implement plans for team development including resources, professional development, career paths, etc.
• Disseminate information across the team (e.g., key updates with CDs, roadmap status and risks with VP and PM) and during team meetings.
• Review established industry-specific and instructional design best practices and standards, NPS and learner feedback, and Sales, Client Care, and Voice of Customer feedback relevant to content creation and overall content development practices to identify trends and areas for potential writing upgrades and changes.
• Other duties as assigned.
YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of related industry experience/credentialing
• 3+ years in leadership/management
• 5+ years in training development and/or delivery
• 7+ years in designated vertical market
• Knowledge of leadership principles and ability to apply relevant principles to day-to-day interactions with direct reports and other key team members.
• Ability to manage and prioritize roadmap development at both a macro and micro level.
• Ability to analyze data (identify problems), think critically (account for all relevant factors), and problem-solve (propose solutions) at both a macro and micro level.
• Ability to determine an appropriate implementation plan based on strategic initiatives, plans, and goals.
• Knowledge of industry-specific and instructional design best practices and standards and overall content development practices.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with direct reports, team members, and stakeholders.
• Ability to remain calm and diplomatic, have difficult conversations, and resolve conflicts.
• Ability to analyze systems/processes and team needs to determine short- and long-term opportunities for improvement.
IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAVE:
• 2+ years in senior management/leadership
Relias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace
IN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:
Relias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportunities to work with their teams regularly for professional development opportunities. Our flexible hybrid work environment requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office (~1-hour commute). You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters approximately 30/40 days/quarter.
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