Lead Specialist, Content Developer

Lead Specialist, Content Developer

Who we are:

At [REDACTED], our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are.

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Our team:

The English Language Learning Content Development team creates high-quality learning experiences for teachers and learners across print, digital, and hybrid formats. The team partners closely with Product, Content Development, Production, Digital, Assessment, vendors, and other stakeholders to deliver content that is pedagogically strong, commercially relevant, and aligned with [REDACTED] standards.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Specialist, Content Developer to join our English Language Learning team. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with deep expertise in ELL pedagogy and courseware development who can independently lead complex, multi-level and multi-component projects across print, digital, and blended learning experiences.

You will take ownership of content development delivery, working with Project Managers, authors, external suppliers, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure high pedagogical and quality standards while navigating dependencies, changing requirements, tight timelines, and delivery risks. You will also provide expert direction to others and help shape new ways of working as AI transforms how learning content is developed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead complex content development across print, digital, and blended English Language Learning products, ensuring strong pedagogical, content, and learning experience standards.
• Own the delivery of large, multi-level and multi-component projects, managing interconnected content and ensuring consistency and cohesion across components and formats.
• Proactively identify and resolve content, quality, dependency, and delivery challenges, adapting development approaches to keep work on track.
• Work closely with Project Managers to provide realistic development lead times, identify dependencies and risks, and develop practical solutions.
• Brief, review, evaluate, and approve work delivered by authors, external suppliers, and vendors, ensuring clear expectations, quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Collaborate across Product, Production, Digital, Assessment, Design, and other functions to solve problems, remove barriers, and enable successful delivery in an international environment.
• Provide expert guidance to Content Developers, authors, suppliers, and project teams, sharing knowledge and building capability without formal line-management responsibility.
• Lead the adoption of AI-enabled and agentic workflows, helping the team and external partners use evolving tools and approaches to improve quality, speed, and scalability.
• Make sound content and delivery decisions independently while communicating progress, risks, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

Required skills andexperience:

• Significant experience developing English Language Learning courseware across print and digital products, with deep knowledge of ELL/ELT pedagogy and learning experience.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex, multi-level and multi-component content development projects.
• Strong editorial judgment and experience briefing, reviewing and approving high-quality educational content.
• Ability to anticipate and solve content, quality and delivery challenges, including timelines, dependencies and changing requirements.
• Experience collaborating with Project Managers, authors, external suppliers and multidisciplinary teams in an international environment.
• Ability to influence, coach and provide expert direction without formal line-management responsibility.
• A curious and proactive approach to AI-enabled content development, combined with strong communication skills and advanced English proficiency.

Location & Work Set Up

This is a full-time, remote role based in Poland.

Your Rewards & Benefits

We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programs meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families, too.

Please see our attractive Poland benefits here:

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