AI Curriculum Designer
Impact: AI literacy and workforce readiness through expert AI curriculum design
Design and develop educational curricula, courses, and learning experiences that teach AI literacy, machine learning concepts, and AI ethics to students at all levels. Create learning objectives, develop instructional materials, design assessments, and ensure AI education programmes are accurate, engaging, and pedagogically sound.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- 60% Team / 40% Solo
- Client facing
- Sometimes
- Impact visibility
- Moderate
- Travel
- 5 to 10% for workshops and conferences
- Schedule flexibility
- Very Flexible
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 38 to 50 hours/week
- Stress level
- Low
At a glance
- Median salary
- $130,000
- Entry-level
- $70,000 - $95,000
- Senior
- $210,000+
- Growth by 2033
- 20% (faster than average)
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High - 65 to 80% growth from entry to senior
- Typical student debt
- Low
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- 55
Soft skills
- 45
Technical complexity: Moderate
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Master's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 2 to 4 years
- Years to senior
- 5 to 8 years
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Instructional Designer > AI Curriculum Designer > Senior AI Curriculum Designer > Head of AI Education > VP of Learning
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 20% moderate risk as AI automates some curriculum development
- AI disruption risk
- Moderate
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 7/10
- Meaning
- 7/10
- Work-life balance
- 6.5/10
- Prestige
- 7/10
- Social perception
- High