Seasonal Curriculum Designer (Grades PreK-5)

About the Company

What if K-12 education were designed to help all students develop lives of meaning and purpose? Wayfinder was founded at the Stanford d.school to answer this question. Our goal is to double our impact each year for the coming years. Our vision is to become the preeminent SEL curriculum company in the world — leading the global movement of purpose, meaning, and belonging-based education worldwide. 

What We Value

You’ll be joining a team of incredibly motivated and dedicated staff members committed to living our organization's values. We work collaboratively across teams, and we feel and act like a purpose-driven organization. To the best of our abilities, each person’s role aligns with their own sense of purpose, which feeds into Wayfinder’s larger sense of purpose.

Read this article about our workplace culture in Conscious Company.

We value access, equity, diversity, and belonging, and these values are represented in our product, our team, and our school partners.

Product: We develop our learning tools using human-centered design principles. We work with grade-level experts to ensure our curriculum is developmentally appropriate and engaging at all levels. Every Wayfinder lesson is supported by relevant research, prototyped in classrooms, and vetted by teachers over rounds of feedback and iteration. We use Universal Design for Learning principles to give every student an equal opportunity to succeed.

Team: Our team is composed of people from all different backgrounds and walks of life. We intentionally recruit, hire, and work with people of diverse identities + experiences. We focus on belonging: being connected, accepted, and valued by the people around us. 

School Partners: We intentionally target a wide array of educational partners, from traditional to non-traditional, that work with a range of students from different socioeconomic groups. We’ve taught our curriculum in high-need schools in the Bronx, independent schools in Silicon Valley, and after-school programs in San Antonio.

The Role

Wayfinder is looking for a motivated Seasonal Curriculum Designer to help us revise existing curricula and create engaging additions to our content. The candidate may have experience teaching any grade(s) between PreK and 5th grade. It is a full-time remote position (40 hours per week). This seasonal role will begin in November 2024 and continue through April 2025.

We strongly encourage people from traditionally underrepresented populations in tech — such as women, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people, etc — to apply.

Responsibilities include:

CURRICULUM REVISION

• Integrate customer feedback from the product and customer success teams into existing lessons and activities

• Support efforts to prototype curriculum and conduct product research as necessary
• Collaborate with the product team to develop and expand our range of physical teaching aids

• Contribute to the development and refinement of assessment tools
• Support the design and engineering teams to optimize a school’s experience with our app

CURRICULUM CREATION

• Write comprehensive lessons and activities, including teacher guides, slide decks, workbook pages, and any other supplemental materials to support lessons
• Collaborate with others to create visuals, videos, and other media that support the curriculum
• Proofread curriculum and upload curriculum on Wayfinder’s app

Requirements

Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive experience teaching any grade(s) between PreK and 5th grade and the ability to speak to strong relationship-building with students.
• Extensive experience writing developmentally appropriate curriculum that builds social-emotional competencies and future-ready skills
• Familiarity and comfort with methods of assessing social-emotional learning 
• Experience designing print and digital curricula for students. Comfort working with designers and engineers is a plus.
• Diverse Experience: Experience designing for diverse groups of people (i.e. students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, geographies, etc.)
• Welcomes Feedback: Ability to welcome and appreciate direct feedback and collaboration
• Flexible: Comfortable pivoting quickly to meet the needs of our school partners
• Works Well With Others: a skilled collaborator and communicator comfortable working with other curriculum designers and experts across the product team
• Self-Motivated: Consistent and relentless self-starter who takes initiative while knowing when to ask for support and direction; this position will need to onboard quickly and efficiently in order to start working as soon as possible
• Organized: You are going to be working across multiple products; an extremely high level of organization is essential
• Attention to Detail: Extremely attentive to detail and nuance in curriculum design
• Bonus: Comfort writing curriculum in Spanish and translating curriculum from English to Spanish
• Bonus: Experience developing Tier 2 and Tier 3 content/ experience teaching students with disabilities

Benefits

Compensation

Salary Range: $60,000 to $90,000 on an annual basis. We offer a competitive package that is based on location and experience. 

We also offer the following benefits:

• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations.
• Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
• Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day.
• ...And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work.

Timeline

This seasonal position will be effective approximately between November 2024 to April 2025. Opportunities to convert to a full-time position might be available depending on your performance and the needs of the business.

Applications will close on November 15th, 2024. All applications will be reviewed once the deadline has passed.

Location

Remote work. Wayfinders’ regular operating hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The daily work schedule may vary depending on the crew in which you are working.

Next Steps, If Interested

If you are interested, please fill out the job application on Workable.

EEO Statement 

At Wayfinder, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Wayfinder is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace.

Pay Transparency 

Wayfinder compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Wayfinder’s total compensation package. Additionally, Wayfinder provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, a monthly stipend, office buildout stipend, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation.

Reasonable Accommodations

Wayfinder is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact HR at [email protected]. 

Additional Notice

Please note that this job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, and duties.