Senior Director, Solutions Implementation

This is a full-time, remote position anywhere in the contiguous United States, with national travel expected up to 50%

What You’ll Do

The education field is at an inflection point. AI-powered instructional tools are proliferating faster than the evidence base that should guide their adoption and the cost of getting implementation wrong falls on students and teachers. Instruction Partners is building a function to contribute vital lessons to this work. There is a lot to learn here and many voices will contribute. We want to be one of those voices, learning in public alongside the field, and contributing what we discover.

Based on what we have learned so far, we strongly suspect that effective implementation support will be largely product-specific. We think supporting any given AI-powered tool requires deep engagement with that product, its design intent, and the specific contexts where it is being used. The Senior Director of Solutions Implementation leads day-to-day partnership work at the intersection of multiple AI-powered instructional products and the partner school systems implementing them, ensuring that implementation deepens, rather than undermines, high-quality instruction and learning.

The Senior Director designs the systems that make implementation visible by tracking dashboards, enabling-conditions monitoring, district leader engagements, and the resources teachers and coaches need to use these tools well and translates what the partnerships surface back into the broader learning agenda for the function, including providing product feedback to developers. The person in this role will serve as the primary relationship holder for a portfolio of product developer partners and partner school systems, with sound judgment about when AI-powered tools support the instructional core and when they pull against it.

With a small team, this is hands-on work. The Senior Director combines designing the systems that make implementation visible and successful with rolling up their sleeves to do that work directly in schools, with product partners, alongside the team. 

This role reports to the Executive Director of Solutions Implementation and manages an Associate Director. The Senior Director works closely with peer Senior Directors across the function and with product developers as substantive partners in the implementation work.

Responsibilities:

Solutions Implementation Delivery

• 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

Candidate Qualifications and Traits:

• 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
• Implementation Design and Iteration: 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
• Stakeholder Influence and Relationship Management: 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
• Instructional System Leadership: Deep knowledge of the system-level leadership levers and HQIM-aligned instructional frameworks required to systematically improve academic outcomes for priority student groups
• AI and Emerging Educational Technology Fluency: 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
• Complex Project Management: Mastery of managing a portfolio of multiple high-stakes partnerships simultaneously, utilizing rigorous operational discipline to ensure visible accountability and on-time delivery

Preferred Qualifications and Traits:

• School or system leader experience

Instruction Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Instruction Partners complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Compensation:

The salary for this role is $143,750. Detailed information about the organizational compensation philosophy can be found here. Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy. See our detailed benefits package here: Benefits in Brief Overview. Additionally, Instruction Partners participates in E-Verify. Please see the E-Verify “Notice of Participation” and the Department of Justice “Right to Work ” posters for more information.

Our Mission: 

We strengthen instructional leadership in schools, school systems, and states to ensure teachers have the support they need to improve learning experiences and learning outcomes for students— with attention to students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities.

Our Vision:

All students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams.