Pedagogy Lead

Our vision Are you passionate about revolutionising education through innovative technology and game-based learning? Join Mrs Wordsmith, the world's fun learning company, as our new Pedadogy Lead. At Mrs Wordsmith, we combine proven learning science with Hollywood-quality animation to create outrageously fun educational games, books, and apps. We're on a mission to empower kids aged 3-13 to express themselves, ace exams, write confidently, and fall in love with reading - all through the power of play.

The role Mrs Wordsmith is seeking a mission-driven Pedagogy Leader to further the academic and pedagogical thread across everything we do. This role is central to ensuring that all of our products are grounded in strong pedagogy and deliver evidence-based learning outcomes. Working across departments, you'll be involved in high-impact new and existing projects, guide curriculum and research efforts, and represent the brand externally at events and in school communities.

Responsibilities: Lead the curriculum/pedagogy development in all of our products, aiming to keep Mrs Wordsmith at the cutting edge of education, ensuring that our resources are pedagogically rigorous. Lead the instructional design involved in the video games to make sure our game-based learning approach is pedagogically optimized. Work with the data scientists and developers to ensure our word database captures linguistic data with accuracy and helps the content creators work more effectively. Oversee projects from conception to release to ensure their alignment with best practices in pedagogy.

Requirements: Proven experience and background in education; expertise in English instruction, literacy, linguistics, and/or curriculum development strongly preferred. Strong conceptual and strategic thinking A genuine passion for language and education An affinity for our brand values of inclusivity and innovation.

Our culture Mrs Wordsmith takes culture seriously. We believe in fun - it is core to everything we do. We believe it leads to the best educational outcomes for our favourite customers - kids! We value effective teamwork, collaboration, and autonomy - fundamentally we know the best people to make the decisions are those closest to the problem and we encourage this across the company. We value creativity, endless curiosity and encourage our teams to respectfully challenge the work and each other for a better output. Above all we value diversity - in whatever form that may manifest - our creative output is stronger for it.