AI Learning Designer (Math)

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: you'll 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.
• Genuinely AI-forward workflow — you use LLMs and other generative AI tools daily, and can speak specifically to how they've 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.

Key Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

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.

About Ello

Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. We're 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 Combinator's 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. We're a small, collaborative team that takes each other's 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.