Makers

Immersive software bootcamps for career changers

Director of Curriculum Innovation

Instructional Design & Curriculum DevelopmentUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeLondon, UK£90k /yrRemote

About the Job

Requirements

You have a strong technology background and want to work in an agile, responsive way, moving with the times to create learning experiences that reflect the frontier of technology.
You have exceptional listening and understanding skills and can engage with senior, engaged clients, identify their needs, and turn conversations and explorations into learning materials.
You understand how people learn and can shape learning experiences, support coaches, and deliver training to junior, entry-level AI engineers and middle-to-senior managers.
You are hands-on with content and its details, making high-impact choices rather than delegating them.
You have experience operating at a senior leadership level, setting direction for a product, innovation area, or technical capability, and influencing wider business priorities.
You have experience leading complex conversations with senior enterprise clients, challenging the original brief, and influencing the final solution.
You have deep, current technical credibility in AI and emerging technology, and can translate complex technical ideas into effective learning products.
You have significant industry experience as a senior software engineer, technical consultant, solutions architect, or similarly credible hands-on technology professional.
You have a track record of turning an unclear business or skills need into a clear technical solution, curriculum design, or learning proposal.
You have hands-on experience leading, teaching, coaching, or directly supporting a first delivery, pilot cohort, or comparable live learning experience.
You have experience using learner, client, and delivery feedback to improve a pilot and make a clear recommendation about next steps.

Responsibilities

Keep close to the technologies, engineering practices, and changing skills needs shaping the organizations Makers serves.
Run focused experiments with generative AI agents, modern engineering stacks, and cloud-native workflows.
Translate findings into practical curriculum ideas and help Makers decide where to move early, keep exploring, or wait.
Join executive and technical client conversations to understand business context, technology stack, skills gaps, and client objectives.
Ask questions that surface the actual problem, constructively challenge assumptions, and distinguish learning needs from wider organizational issues.
Turn client conversations into a curriculum brief covering the audience, outcomes, technical scope, delivery approach, constraints, and success measures, while being clear about what learning can achieve.
Create curriculum plans and tailored proposals that respond to the client brief.
Define learning outcomes, content, sequence, practical activities, assessment approach, and delivery model for the first cohort.
Choose an appropriate pace, depth, and technical ambition based on learners, client environment, and available time.
Work with Commercial colleagues to ensure proposals are technically credible, grounded in sound learning design, and clear enough for clients to make informed decisions.
Lead or directly support the first cohort to maintain the connection between the original client need and the learner experience.
Give pilot participants the context, materials, and technical guidance they need to deliver effectively.
Stay close to learners, coaches, and client sponsors throughout the pilot, using feedback and observed results to identify issues early.
Make changes during delivery when needed to protect outcomes or client trust, remaining accountable for quality and satisfaction through the first cohort.
Review the pilot with the client, delivery colleagues, and Head of Curriculum Product.
Combine learner outcomes, feedback, and delivery lessons into conclusions and recommended changes.
Identify what has been validated, what still needs testing, and what should not be scaled.
Hand over successful curricula, supporting evidence, and rationale so Curriculum Product can own compliance, release readiness, and ongoing improvement.

Desired Qualifications

Experience as a technical educator or coach is highly desirable; senior practitioners with strong learning design and facilitation skills are also of interest.

For years Makers trained our learners in technologies that were well established and where there was deep and broad expertise.

Today that is not the case.

We train our learners in the very latest technologies, enabled, enhanced and accelerated by AI.

We need a leader on our SMT who can own this new, thrilling and challenging opportunity. You will create the first build of new curricula, often working with a particular pilot client. You will also influence what Makers does internally, with the full support of the Ops team to do so.

You will understand where technology is today and where it is going through a combination of three inputs:

Personal experimentation and research.
Supporting Makers as a business to stay ahead of the curve and using the company as an incubator.
Listening very hard to our clients and understanding what they need and why.

Based on these three inputs, you will create new learning products and evolve existing products to reflect the market. For example, you may work with a client to create a curriculum to build the most advanced Forward Deployed Engineers in the market, or to help learners build the most advanced AI systems.

You will be supported by a team of curriculum writers in creating materials and by our coaches in delivering them. But we expect you to get hands on with the content and think hard about the details. We are not looking for someone to delegate the high impact, detailed choices.

Where This Role Starts and Stops

Director of Curriculum Innovation (You): Owns discovery, bespoke design, the first live delivery, and improvements during the pilot.

Head of Curriculum Product (Your counterpart): Supports with running the process of curriculum development using standard protocols for good practice, and takes over fully when the curriculum is ready to become part of the core portfolio.

What you are:

A Technologist at the Frontier: You have a strong technology background and want to work in an agile, responsive way—moving with the times to create learning experiences that reflect the frontier of tech. You find the vertiginous nature of AI and the extreme pace of change thrilling rather than challenging.
An Exceptional Listener: You have exceptional listening and understanding skills. You can engage with our incredibly senior and engaged clients, get to the heart of what they need, and turn those conversations and explorations into learning materials.
A Coach with Broad Range: You understand how people learn and feel confident shaping learning experiences. You can support our coaches and deliver great training yourself—both to junior, entry-level AI engineers and to middle-to-senior managers.
Hands-on with the Details: You are supported by writers and coaches, but you get hands-on with the content and think hard about the details rather than delegating the high-impact choices. Just as importantly, you are never afraid to abandon brilliant work when it is out of date.

Keep Makers up to date with technology

Keep close to the technologies, engineering practices and changing skills needs shaping the organisations Makers serves.
Run focused experiments with areas such as generative AI agents, modern engineering stacks and cloud-native workflows.
Turn what you learn into practical ideas for the curriculum, helping Makers decide where to move early, where to keep exploring and where to wait.

Understand the client problem

Join executive and technical client conversations to understand the business context, technology stack, skills gap and what the client needs to achieve.
Ask the questions that surface the real problem, challenge assumptions constructively and distinguish a learning need from a wider organisational issue.
Turn those conversations into a clear curriculum brief covering the audience, outcomes, technical scope, delivery approach, constraints and measures of success, while being honest about what learning can achieve.

Design curriculum for the client

Create clear curriculum plans and tailored proposals that respond directly to the client brief.
Define the learning outcomes, content, sequence, practical activities, assessment approach and delivery model needed for the first cohort.
Make sensible choices about pace, depth and technical ambition based on the learners, the client environment and the time available.
Work with Commercial colleagues so proposals are technically credible, grounded in good learning design and clear enough for clients to make confident decisions.

Stay close to the first delivery and improve it

Lead or directly support delivery of the first cohort so that the original client need is not lost between design and the learner experience.
Give the people involved in the pilot the context, materials and technical guidance they need to deliver well.
Stay close to learners, coaches and client sponsors throughout the pilot, using their feedback and the results you see to identify issues early.
Make sensible changes during delivery where they protect outcomes or client trust, remaining accountable for quality and satisfaction through the first cohort.

Learn from the pilot and hand over what works

Review the pilot with the client, delivery colleagues and Head of Curriculum Product.
Bring together learner outcomes, feedback and lessons from delivery into clear conclusions and recommended changes.
Be explicit about what has been validated, what still needs testing and what should not be scaled.
Hand over the successful curriculum, supporting evidence and the thinking behind it, so Curriculum Product can take ownership of compliance, release readiness and ongoing improvement.

You bring experience operating at a senior leadership level, setting the direction for a product, innovation area or technical capability and influencing wider business priorities. (Essential)
Experience leading complex conversations with senior enterprise clients, challenging the original brief and influencing the final solution. (Essential)
Deep and current technical credibility in AI and emerging technology, alongside the ability to translate complex technical ideas into effective learning products. (Essential)
Significant industry experience as a senior software engineer, technical consultant, solutions architect or in a similarly credible hands-on technology role. (Essential)
A track record of turning an unclear business or skills need into a clear technical solution, curriculum design or learning proposal.
Hands-on experience leading, teaching, coaching or directly supporting a first delivery, pilot cohort or comparable live learning experience.
Experience using learner, client and delivery feedback to improve a pilot and make a clear recommendation about what happens next.
Experience as a technical educator or coach is highly desirable, but we are equally interested in senior practitioners who can show strong learning design and facilitation skills

About the Company

Makers

Immersive software bootcamps for career changers

Makers.tech runs intensive software development bootcamps for adults and career changers who want to enter the tech field. The courses are immersive, hands-on coding programs that start each month and include an emotional intelligence curriculum to boost self-awareness and teamwork. The model is based on tuition, with financing options to widen access, and revenue also comes from partnerships with tech companies that hire graduates. What sets Makers.tech apart is the combination of technical training with personal development, aiming to produce well-rounded developers who can collaborate effectively in professional settings. The goal is to turn students into capable software engineers who can succeed in the tech industry and meet employer demand.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Early VC
Total funding: $9.9M
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2012

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