Senior Director, Solutions Implementation

Role Overview

• Manages a portfolio of district implementations of AI-powered solutions, with deep attention to instructional quality and outcomes for students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities
• Serves as the primary relationship holder for assigned partner systems and product developer partners, building high-trust relationships that enable honest learning
• Tracks the implementation and integration of solutions in assigned districts, monitoring usage, fidelity to High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)-aligned teaching, and emerging signals of impact and unintended consequences
• Monitors the enabling conditions through leadership, coaching, scheduling, and infrastructure that determine whether implementation actually changes teacher practice
• Engages with product developers to understand product intent, surface implementation realities and feed insight back into product development
• Designs the systems that make implementation visible: monitoring dashboards, observation protocols, enabling-conditions trackers, and review cadences
• Designs and delivers resources that build district and school leader capacity around effective implementation of AI-powered tools alongside HQIM cores
• Co-designs launch experiences with product developer and district partners to include kickoff agendas, professional learning sequences, monthly check-in plans that set the partnership up for ongoing learning
• Surfaces opportunities where internal facing products could scale or support service delivery, partnering with the Executive Director to determine how and when to scale
• Iterates on implementation systems and resources based on what the partnerships are surfacing, in collaboration with peer Senior Directors
• Acts as the owner of specific learning priorities within the function, contributing to the broader learning agenda the Executive Director shapes
• Codifies what's emerging from partnerships into resources, frameworks, and field-facing artifacts that contribute to the field's understanding of effective AI-powered solution implementation
• Collaborates with colleagues to align implementation resources across products and to surface cross-cutting insights
• Coaches and develops staff, treating development as partnership rather than oversight
• Models organizational values and contributes to a culture of accountability and psychological safety

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in K-12 education, instructional leadership, or implementation-focused consulting, with a track record of improving outcomes for priority student groups
• Mastery of designing and refining execution systems including dashboards, tools to support implementation, monitoring protocols, and review cadences that make complex partnership work visible, actionable, and adaptable in real time
• Advanced ability to build high-trust relationships with district senior leaders and external partners, maintaining strict alignment to the core learning agenda amidst competing stakeholder pressures
• Deep knowledge of the system-level leadership levers and HQIM-aligned instructional frameworks required to systematically improve academic outcomes for priority student groups
• Advanced understanding of current trends in AI-powered instructional tools and the specific infrastructure, policy, and training conditions required for their effective integration into the instructional core
• Mastery of managing a portfolio of multiple high-stakes partnerships simultaneously, utilizing rigorous operational discipline to ensure visible accountability and on-time delivery

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options
• Generous vacation policy