Director of Education

About the role

The Director of Education will own the mission of making FLORA the default creative AI tool taught in art and design programs. This is a high-ownership, highly strategic operator role responsible for:

• Installing FLORA into institutions, department by department
• Turning early adoption into durable, repeatable dominance
• Built and executed a repeatable playbook for adopting FLORA within art and design schools—starting with professors, expanding to departments, and culminating in institution-wide adoption
• Designing and executing a playbook for adopting FLORA within art and design schools—starting with professors, expanding to departments, and culminating in institution-wide adoption

Responsibilities

Install FLORA into institutions, department by department

Turn early adoption into durable, repeatable dominance

Build and execute a repeatable playbook for adopting FLORA within art and design schools—starting with professors, expanding to departments, and culminating in institution-wide adoption

Design and execute a playbook for adopting FLORA within art and design schools—starting with professors, expanding to departments, and culminating in institution-wide adoption

Requirements

Education GTM Strategy & Execution

Design and execute a repeatable playbook for adopting FLORA within art and design schools—starting with professors, expanding to departments, and culminating in institution-wide adoption

Decide where to go deep vs. broad, concentrating effort to achieve critical mass within priority schools

Own the education roadmap end-to-end: target schools, sequencing, tactics, success criteria, and escalation paths

Qualifications

Professor & Department Adoption

Equip faculty with compelling narratives, materials, and workflows to teach FLORA effectively

Turn multi-class or multi-professor usage into department-level momentum and formal adoption

Skills

Administration & Institutional Deals

Engage credibly with department heads, deans, and senior administrators

Position FLORA as essential professional infrastructure for modern creative education—not a novelty tool

Lead negotiations for department- or school-wide access, including pilots, discounts, and long-term partnerships

Benefits

Curriculum, Enablement & Proof

Oversee the creation and curation of off-the-shelf teaching resources, example syllabi, and learning materials that lower adoption friction

Work with internal and external educators to define what “AI literacy for creatives” actually means

Highlight exceptional student work and institutional wins to reinforce FLORA’s legitimacy and momentum

Pay

Signal Amplification & Feedback Loops

Identify and operationalize strong market signals (e.g. job listings, studio adoption, industry recognition)

Create flywheels between schools, students, and employers that compound adoption over time

Synthesize insights from education back into GTM positioning and product direction

Schedule

Nice To Have (but Not Required)

• Former EDU PMM experience at a design- or productivity-led company (e.g. Figma, Adobe, Google, Notion)
• Experience working inside or alongside art/design schools
• Existing relationships with creative educators or institutions
• Background in a creative discipline before moving into GTM or strategy