The Company:
Saybot is a leading English learning technology platform provider for Chinese people interested in learning and improving their English. The company was founded and supported by technology visionaries Nicholas Negroponte and Leonard Kleinrock, and renowned VCs CID, CMHJ, and Vickers. Through Saybot’s innovative speech-based platform, English teachers, publishers, and schools can create and sell English curricula to 180 million English learners in China. By focusing on English learning and language technology innovations, Saybot and its partners are making English learning more efficient, effective and fun. Saybot has received governmental funding and several awards, including Red Herring 100 Asia.
The Role:
We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated, and results-driven Editorial Director of English Language Learning (ELL) to enhance interactive curriculum design and production. This position requires the candidate to manage a group of curriculum developers and editors in order to create engaging and effective interactive curricula.
Job Description:
As an Editorial Director your responsibilities will be to:
Participate in creating the company's short-term and long-term goals and strategies and to provide curriculum advice;
Develop and implement an overall curriculum vision and preferred pedagogies in association with product department;
Manage and coach a team of ELL editors and curriculum developers and work with them to design and develop high quality, engaging, and effective ELL curricula;
Evaluate the quality and teaching effectiveness of interactive curricula;
Allocate curriculum resources to current projects according to priority and cost;
Establish and refine various communication and collaboration protocols, policies, and SOP to ensure effective productivity and project management.
Job Requirements:
BA/BS degree in English, Education, or related field (or other if native/near-native speaker of English);
Pre-service ESOL certificate (such as TEFL, CELTA, or Trinity ESOL);
5+ years experience with from-scratch production of medium and long-term curricula and materials for all levels of ELL students;
3+ years management experience in curriculum design, production, and evaluation;
Familiar with teaching and testing methodologies;
Familiar with software and the Internet-assisted learning;
High level of accountability, strong initiative, good analytical and management skills;
Outstanding communication skills in English (with some familiarity with Mandarin);
Compensation：
A competitive salary and benefit package with restricted stock shares.
Contact Information:
Saybot (Shanghai) Inc.
Address: 29F Wise Logic International Center, No.66 North Shanxi Road, Shanghai 200041
E-mail: [email protected] www.saybot.com
