Course Lead, Middle School Math Solution

Job Description

The Modern Classrooms Project is seeking a Course Lead, Middle School Math Solution to join our dynamic team. This role is full-time, salaried, and remote within the USA, with up to 10% travel. The position offers a salary range of $150,000 - $175,000 per year, plus benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Design lessons for the MCP instructional approach. Shape how a lesson unfolds, using practice, activities, and checks for understanding that move students from first exposure to mastery.
• Set and hold the quality bar. Judge lessons against a high standard for mathematical accuracy, alignment to learning science, and usability. Decide what is ready for students and what is not.
• Make great teaching explicit. Take what an expert teacher does intuitively and write it down precisely: the structure, the worked examples, the predictable misconceptions, the exact moves that make a concept land. Make it repeatable.
• Put AI to work. Use AI tools as part of how the content gets made: write the prompts and specifications that guide them, review and revise what comes back, and bring the judgment to know when it is right and when it is not. The tools move fast; you own the judgment.
• Design for the students who arrive behind. Build in the activation of prerequisite knowledge, the scaffolds, and the on-ramps that give every student a real path to grade-level math.
• Partner across the team. Work closely with the VP of Product on the overall approach, and with engineering on the tools you build with.

Qualifications

• You were or are an outstanding math teacher. You’ve spent years teaching middle school math, and ideally beyond, with a track record of moving students who were behind up to grade level.
• You know the math cold. You have deep content knowledge across middle school mathematics and understand how each idea sets up the next, all the way into algebra.
• You build from the science of learning. You have deep expertise in the science of how kids learn and understand how to apply it to instructional content in math.
• You have designed math content. You’ve designed instruction to be used by educators, not just designed for your own instruction. You understand scope and sequence, lessons, units, assessments, and full courses. You hold strong, specific opinions about what separates excellent math instruction from the mediocre.
• You can make the implicit explicit. You can take great instruction and specify it precisely enough that someone, or something, else can reproduce it faithfully.
• You are AI-native, or ready to be. You’re excited to use AI tools to do great work far faster than a traditional approach could, and you bring the judgment to steer them well and catch what they get wrong.
• You are self-directed. You thrive in small, high-autonomy teams where the surface area is broad and the context shifts constantly. You write clearly and own a problem end to end without waiting to be told what to do next.
• You love to learn. You’re actively following developments in both math instruction and AI, and applying them to your own and others’ work. You’re motivated by MCP’s mission and eager to build something that teachers and students rely on.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salaried position: $150,000 - $175,000 gross salary per year
• Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance and ancillary benefits through MetLife
• Participation in Vanguard 403(b) deferred-compensation plan with 3% employer match
• Paid Time Off, inclusive of: vacation/PTO (20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick and safe paid time off, "Me Days", and the ability to earn paid Comp time off
• Annual budget for MCP-funded Continuous Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
• Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
• Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)

Statement of Non-Discrimination

The Modern Classrooms Project is committed to equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, or ethnicity. We are strongly committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage applications from traditionally under-represented backgrounds.