Art of Problem Solving
Senior Language Arts Curriculum Developer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Diego, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $98K - $127K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ December 25th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead development of full Language Arts courses and educational materials.
- Improve curriculum using student performance data and stakeholder feedback.
- Oversee and mentor junior curriculum developers and interns.
- Participate in teacher training and create training resources.
- Strong writing, editing, and curriculum development skills for middle to early high school levels.
- Bachelor's degree in Language Arts or related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 3-5 years teaching or curriculum development experience, preferably grades 6–10.
- Salary range: $98,000 to $127,000 annually.
- Offers medical, dental, vision plans, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and relocation bonus.
- Employment requires background check and legal authorization to work in the US; no sponsorship provided.
Senior Language Arts Curriculum Developer Full Description
Our Language Arts team is building a comprehensive curriculum rooted in the idea that reading, writing, and speaking are all acts of problem solving. As a Curriculum Developer at AoPS, you will play a key role in developing and refining educational materials that will inspire and train the next generation of great problem solvers. At the Senior level, you will lead the development of full courses or equivalent scopes of content.
The Senior Language Arts Curriculum Developer will:
- Outline and develop full courses or equivalent scopes of content and all accompanying educational material
- Improve existing materials based on student performance data as well as student and teacher feedback
- Incorporate feedback from team members and other stakeholders into their materials
- Review and provide feedback on outlines and educational materials created by other curriculum developers
- Oversee work of junior curriculum developers collaborating on projects
- Participate in teacher training and the creation of training materials, if relevant
- Participate in the onboarding, training, and development of interns and junior curriculum developers
- Act as a consultant and strategic partner to team members on areas of expertise
- Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team
- Hone their understanding of our students, teachers, and customers, which may include teaching courses
- Proactively communicate potential roadblocks and content status and accurately estimate content creation timelines
- Complete other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned
The ideal candidate has:
- Bachelor's degree in a field closely related to Language Arts strongly preferred, with an advanced degree as a plus
- A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in teaching Language Arts and/or developing Language Arts educational materials, ideally including significant experience at the 6â10 grade levels
- Strong experience with and understanding of the students, ideally gifted/advanced students, in their target audience and the teachers who will deliver their content
- Excellent writing skills across a variety of genres and contexts, with the ability to translate complex Language Arts concepts into clear, engaging, and understandable content for middle school and early high school audiences.
- Strong Language Arts content knowledge and excellent editing skills
- Strong attention to detail and proven ability to communicate effectively and proactively with project stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to make good cost-benefit decisions
- Strong creativity, with the ability to develop original problems and puzzles
- The ability to readily seek out and learn from feedback
- Passion for education
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 98k-127k. Here are some things you can look forward to:
- Impact: Help shape the educational experience of thousands of motivated students who will become tomorrow's 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: 401K 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)
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 countryâs 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.
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