AI Learning Designer (Math)

Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: maximize the potential of every child everywhere.

Were building the worlds first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens speaks adapts and inspires just like the best human educators.

Our first product Read with Ello is already helping tens of thousands of kids each week learn to read. It listens as they read aloud offers support when they stumble and generates magical personalized stories. It works and kids love it.

Now were scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher that can help children learn far beyond reading including math and language learning. Our new app combines language speech and memory to deliver interactive learning for kids worldwide; check it out here. Were moving fast: we ship weekly test directly with kids and push the boundaries of whats possible with AI in education.

With the resources of the worlds top investors and the heart of a public benefit corporation were here to revolutionize how children learn globally. Featured on TIMEs Best Inventions and Fortunes Change the World Ello is a small mission-driven team taking on one of the most important challenges of our time: to democratize education.

About the Role

Ello is seeking a full-time AI Learning Designer (Math) to help shape the instructional vision and design of our math learning experiences. This role sits at the intersection of elementary math pedagogy and AI: youll build and refine AI-powered math learning activities steer our AI tutor to teach math the way a great human educator would and work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers to make it happen.

This role is ideal for an AI-forward math educator or curriculum designer who can think both instructionally creatively and technicallysomeone who can define what learners need to learn imagine how that learning can come to life within an AI-powered digital product and collaborate deeply with engineers to build the future of educational technology.

Because this role sits at the intersection of curriculum and technology were looking for someone with a strong technical foundation. That might come from a background in computer science AI computational thinking educational technology or extensive experience building AI-enabled products and workflows. You dont need to be a software engineer but you should be excited to work closely with engineers understand the capabilities and limitations of modern AI systems and have a strong conceptual understanding of how AI components and software systems work together to deliver intelligent interactive learning experiences.

Youll collaborate closely with curriculum product engineering and design to shape Ellos elementary math curriculum develop engaging learning experiences and ensure our math instruction is grounded in both learning science and exceptional product design.

Were aiming to significantly grow our library of math activities this year and we need someone who can ramp up quickly and hit that pace independently. This role is open as either a full-time contractor (SF preferred but open to remote candidates) or a full-time employee based in San Francisco. Were moving fast to fill it but for the right person we see this as a long-term seat on the learning design team.

What Youll Do

• Design and build AI-powered math lessons that combine strong pedagogy with engaging learner experiences.

• Evaluate AI tutor outputs to ensure they are instructionally effective and developmentally appropriate.

• Guide and refine AI tutor behavior by helping shape prompts so the agent teaches as an expert math tutor would.

• Collaborate with engineers and AI researchers to continuously improve the quality of AI-driven instruction through testing iteration and evaluation.

Key Requirements

• Deep expertise in math education curriculum design or learning science particularly in early elementary or elementary mathematics

• A strong technical foundation. This could include experience in computer science artificial intelligence educational technology or building technology-enabled learning products.

• A genuinely AI-forward workflow you use LLMs and other generative AI tools daily and can speak specifically to how theyve changed how you work

• Comfortable communicating fluently with engineers and product teams translating instructional ideas into AI-powered learning experiences

• Able to ramp quickly take ambiguous direction and hit a high output bar independently

Nice to Have

• Background in computer science software engineering data science or a related technical field

• Experience designing AI-assisted educational experiences

• Experience building edtech products or digital learning experiences

• Familiarity with research-based math instruction including number sense development visual representations and productive struggle

• Portfolio demonstrating curriculum or product work

We Look for Candidates Who

• Obsess over learning design because all children deserve an education that creates impact with delight.

• Experiment constantly especially with AI because yesterdays workflows wont build tomorrows products.

• Have a strong opinionated sense of what good math pedagogy looks and feels like.

• Move with urgency because opportunities like this dont come around often.

• Default to ownership instead of waiting for permission.

• Build meaningful relationships and communicate with honesty empathy and respect.

About Ello

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. Were currently around 50 people headquartered in San Francisco with a second office in Nairobi Kenya.

Our team has deep expertise in artificial intelligence K-12 education and child development across institutions such as Stanford Berkeley Google Apple and more. We were part of Y Combinators W20 batch and are funded by world-class investors including Goodwater Capital Homebrew Reed Hastings Common Sense Growth Ravensburger Project A Ventures Reach Capital Khosla Ventures WndrCo Visible Ventures and K9 Ventures.

Were a small collaborative team that takes each others voices very seriously. Because our mission is to support all children it is critical that our team is representative of the communities we work in; we place significant emphasis on ensuring diversity in our team and inclusion in our culture. If you have questions about immigration reach out to us at .

We feel enormously privileged to be building at this moment. Advances in AI have made it possible for the first time to imagine giving every child a truly personalized teacher. We dont take that opportunity for granted.

We work with urgency because millions of children cant wait. We care deeply about craftsmanship because learning experiences should feel magical. And we believe its possible to build ambitious technology while building a company where people do the best work of their careers.

If that excites you wed love to meet you.

At Ello diversity is a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate based on race religion skin color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to assess skills and experience directly. If you need accommodations throughout the interview process please contact

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