Senior Director, Solutions Implementation

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

About the Role

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. They translate 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

Implementation Systems and Resource Design

• 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, and 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

Learning, Codification, and Team Leadership

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

• School or system leader experience

Pay

The salary for this role is $143,750.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options
• Generous vacation policy

See our detailed benefits package here.