Job description
About Pursuit
Pursuit is a social impact organization building the future of economic mobility in the age of AI.
For over a decade, we’ve created life-changing outcomes through training programs for adults from low-income backgrounds—especially those without college degrees. Our graduates have generated nearly $1 billion in lifetime wage gains. Now, as AI reshapes the future of work, Pursuit is evolving as a leader at the intersection of AI, jobs, economic opportunity, and tech innovation. We’re becoming an AI-native organization: training AI-native talent, embedding AI across our operations, and building software to scale our impact. Beyond direct training, we’re driving systems change. Through initiatives like the Good Jobs Guarantee, we’re advocating for outcomes-based funding and national policy to make economic mobility possible for millions.
About the Role
Pursuit is hiring an AI Learning Experience Lead to drive the learning experience across our AI-native programs. You’ll be the architect of our learning approach, which combines curriculum, experience and community, for our facilitators to deliver.
This role sits at the intersection of pedagogy, product, and problem-solving. You’ll shape what and how we teach across programs, while helping to build the AI training product that will enable personalization and scale. You’ll work closely with the Product team, our delivery staff, and external partners to ensure Pursuit’s learning experience is tailored to the communities we serve, aligned to job outcomes, and adaptable to a rapidly evolving AI and employment landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Refine Pursuit’s learning thesis: Establish Pursuit’s core beliefs behind how and what we teach, what AI mastery looks like, and what Builders should walk away with.
- Operationalize the learning experience: Operationalize the high-level goals, progression models, key learning activities and outcomes that define each stage of our programs
- Define and measure outcomes: Establish success metrics for Builders, track progress toward job-readiness, and use data and feedback loops to refine curriculum and delivery at scale.
- Evolve the curriculum for Pursuit’s future scale: Adapt the learning experience across audiences - builders, employers, and partners.
- Help build our AI training agent: Define the instructional inputs - learning goals, templates, success criteria, pacing models - to power our AI learning agent and help build the product.
- Incorporate market insights: Actively gather input from PBC, PBD, and Program teams to inform what we teach and how we teach it.
- Prototype, test, and refine: Quickly build and iterate on content models, facilitator flows, and delivery systems based on user feedback and outcomes.
- Implement delivery tooling: Work with COO to set up systems (e.g., Notion, Google Docs/Sheets, JSON pipelines) that streamline publishing, versioning, and iteration and feedback mechanisms to measure quality and impact over time.
You’re a Great Fit If You:
- 5-10 years in product management, L&D systems, or enablement.
- Experience designing transformational in-person experiences that focus on structure and community to drive outcomes.
- Familiarity with AI tools for learning, including LLMs, AI copilots, or instructional design powered by automation
- Product mindset: iterative, pragmatic, and data-informed, with accountability for impact
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills for working across functions in a startup-like setting
- Have deep empathy for adult learners and and awareness of what drives persistence and growth in high-barrier environments
- Exhibit strong critical thinking skills with experience designing structured, scalable solutions in start-up like settings even without prior subject matter expertise.
- Are passionate about equity, tech access, and expanding opportunity for marginalized communities across NY
- Are curious about how AI is reshaping the workforce and excited to gain hands-on experience building with AI tools (no prior experience required)
- Thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment and bring a flexible, can-do attitude to your work
Pursuit offers:
- An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.
- Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
- 401k Match
- Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August and a week-long holiday the last week of December
- Monday and Friday work from anywhere policy
- Catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
- Dedicated time to build in AI and hone your AI skills
Salary & Benefits:
The expected salary range for this role is $120,000 base + incentive compensation.
The compensation above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.
Pursuit values diversity:
Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.
