# Director, Assessment Content

**Company**: Instructure
**Location**: US-REMOTE
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: $130K - $155K
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives.

As a Director, Assessment Content, you will lead the teams that design, write, edit, and research the content behind our assessment products.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the Assessment Content team and Assessment Research team, fostering tight collaboration across teams to drive an integrated, end-to-end assessment development and research processes.

- Own delivery of the assessment roadmap, including planning, staffing, timelines, and quality.

- Partner with Product Management to shape the roadmap, through content expertise, research, and market insights.

- Manage a million-dollar-plus operating budget and decide how to spread work across US teams, offshore teams, and vendors.

- Oversee content rights, including licensing, work-for-hire agreements, international distribution rights, and rights in perpetuity.

- Find practical ways to use AI in content design, editing, and review to speed up work while protecting quality.

- Hire, coach, and grow leaders, and build a team that can take on new kinds of work as the business changes.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree (Master's or Doctorate) in education, educational measurement, psychometrics, instructional design, or a related field preferred.

- 12+ years of experience in assessment content development, assessment research, or product development within the education industry.

- Seven or more years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and teams with a mix of specialties.

- Deep assessment expertise, including test construction, blueprints, item specifications, accessibility compliance and psychometric concepts like validity and reliability.

- Proven track record of running large, distributed content operations, including budget ownership and management of offshore teams and vendors.

- Working knowledge of content licensing, work-for-hire, international distribution rights, and rights in perpetuity.

- Hands-on experience using AI tools in content development, with good judgment about where they help and where they don't.

- Strong operational leadership, with the ability to deliver against a roadmap while influencing its direction.

- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and visual), with the ability to build trust with everyone from individual contributors to executive leadership.

- A passion for education and a commitment to the Instructure mission.

Benefits:

- Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program.

- Flexible work culture.

- Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual “Dim the Lights” period.

- Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support.

- Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement.

- The technology and tools you need to do your best work.

- Motivosity employee recognition program.

- A culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection.

## Skills

### Required
- assessment content development
- assessment research
- product development
- education
- educational measurement
- psychometrics
- instructional design
- test construction
- blueprints
- item specifications
- accessibility compliance
- validity and reliability
- budget management
- content licensing
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- Master's or Doctorate in education, educational measurement, psychometrics, instructional design, or a related field
- hands-on experience using AI tools in content development

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