Education and Curriculum Specialist

Lingokids

Lingokids

Madrid, Spain · Remote
Posted on Sep 19, 2024
Fully remote (optional), Madrid

Education and Curriculum Specialist

We want every single child to reach their full potential—and we’re looking for an Education and Curritulm Specialist to drive us forward on this journey.

Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning™

Lingokids are revolutionizing kids learning. We’ve already helped millions of children to become confident, conscious, resilient, lifelong learners but we’re nowhere near done.

We want every single child to reach their full potential—and we’re looking for remarkable people to drive us forward on this journey and help shape a brighter future for families everywhere.

On the next page of our neverending story is a hunt for the best Education and Curriculum Specialist. Up for the challenge?

Join the Playlearning™ revolution

At Lingokids we believe in letting learning and play collide so kids’ curiosity can lead the way. We’re so passionate about this, we even created our own word. Yes, really! Playlearning™.

We create games, animated series, podcasts, songs, videos, courses and more, all handcrafted by our dedicated team of storytellers. All of our Playlearning™ content is designed to boost academic progress, teach modern life skills and bring joy to children aged 2-8. Our free app has 100 million users and our YouTube channel has 2.5 million subscribers, teleporting millions of little learners to the Lingokids universe every single day.

We’re proud of our safe, ad-free environment that prioritizes healthy, peace-of-mind play. No gremlins grabbing personal data here, nuh uh. Best of all? Our Playlearning™ content is backed by education experts from around the world.

But wait! There’s more? We’re expanding our portfolio with licensed digital products and partnerships with brands like Amazon, Ravensburger, UNICEF, Tosta Rica, H&M, Ikea, and McDonald's.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

  • Plan, structure and develop educational in-app lessons and courses on a range of subjects for children aged 2-8 from concept to release (i.e. plan high level scope and sequence, structure the lessons, plan each activity and its questions, write VO texts, choose and request assets, build into admin system for release)
  • Align courses and lessons to national curriculums around the world
  • Work efficiently and towards deadlines to ensure the lesson pipeline is delivered on schedule, ensuring that all lesson plans and assets are ready on time for final build
  • Keep up to date with educational trends and competitors, and offer new ideas to improve the educational aspect of the product.

Other (only when required):

  • Work directly with the creative teams at Lingokids Studios to ensure content is educationally sound. (i.e. decide learning objectives, review and proofread scripts, identify key words, pitch new variations of our games to the team, write instructions and voice over texts, check art and animations for educational bugs, carry out final educational quality assurance checks etc)
  • Work directly with product and engineering teams to ensure the educational experience is reflected in the UI, rewards systems and information areas
  • Tag new content and lessons with the appropriate internal tags for certain product features automation and content organization
  • Write descriptions for new content
  • Assist with efficacy study research
  • Assist with the creation of offscreen resource creation
  • Provide support where necessary to other teams at Lingokids such as the Marketing team, Partnerships team, PR team

What you’ll bring

  • BA in Education, Primary Education, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Design, Instructional Design, Education Technology, Serious Games or a related field.
  • At least 4 years experience working with or teaching children aged 2-8
  • At least 2 years experience in an ed-tech environment
  • Proven experience in creating digital lessons or courses is highly desirable
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Excellent negotiation skills to work collaboratively with key stakeholder teams
  • Native English speaker.

Nice to have:

  • Experience creating educational games or other media
  • Professional capabilities in Spanish

Life at Lingokids

🏡 Remote working within Spain
We have a remote-friendly culture, with flexible work setups between our beautiful offices in Madrid, Málaga and Barcelona, and your cozy casa. Office attendance? Your presence in the office is optional, empowering you to choose where you work for optimal productivity.

📈 Stock options
Joining Lingokids means you can choose to own part of the company. You’re invested in our success and we want you to know that we’re invested in yours, too.

📚 Career growth
We believe that we only get better together. Our strong feedback culture creates an ideal environment for professional growth and, to keep your knowledge fresh, we offer €2000 a year for books, conferences, and training. Feel like something’s missing? Just ask!

💬 Language lessons
At Lingokids, learning is what we’re all about! That’s why we offer free language classes so you can brush up on your Spanish, English or Portuguese ¡Qué excelente!

🩺 Health Insurance
We want you to be happy and healthy at work and get the care you need when you’re not—so we offer optional health insurance through Adeslas at competitive rates.

🧠 Mental Health Support
We offer 4 free TherapySide sessions to help you always feel at your best, both personally and professionally.

💳 Flexible compensation
We use Cobee to roll your monthly meal and transport expenses into your payroll.

🍲 Meal allowances
Every month we’ll drop a tasty €60 onto your Cobee card to spend on restaurants and food delivery services. Honestly, there’s no big reason why. We just want you to enjoy some good grub.

🖥 Home office setup
Want your work-from-home setup to start living its best life? We’ve got you covered with a €400 allowance to put together an ergonomic place, plus an extra €35 each month for remote work expenses.

🌍 Visa sponsorship
Need a visa to work in the EU? We’ll guide you through the visa process and cover the costs, making your move as smooth as possible.

Don't be a stranger

Not ticking all the boxes for this particular role? We’d still love to hear from you! We’re on the hunt for someone who’s passionate about our mission, not someone who’s perfect on paper.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Lingokids is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We believe diversity fuels our innovation. Every day, we teach kids about the strength found in differences and this remains a value that is core to our Playlearning™ approach.

We’ll consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.

Locations
Fully remote (optional), Madrid
Contact Leticia Castro Carrión VP of People and Culture – People & Culture

Our culture

Playworking:

We work hard and playwork™ even harder! Learning through play and having fun is also the mantra of Lingokids behind the scenes.

Creative leadership:

Lingokids members work in interdisciplinary teams with a long-term goal designed to feel like a mini-startup where everyone must perform creative leadership. All members are responsible for proposing solutions to problems, and nobody is expected to come up with all the ideas while the rest are just developing them.

We know nothing:

At Lingokids we are humble and one of our mottos is “I know nothing”. But knowing is our passion so we are always finding creative ways to increase our wisdom. That continuous race for perfecting our knowledge brought us where we are. That and that we are fast getting that knowledge.

About Lingokids

We’re the playlearning™ app for more than 50 million families worldwide.

By learning through play, your child will develop skills like creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

Join the adventure!

Fully remote (optional), Madrid

Education and Curriculum Specialist

We want every single child to reach their full potential—and we’re looking for an Education and Curritulm Specialist to drive us forward on this journey.

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