Creative Technologist Job at Pearson in Carson City

Join Pearson as a Creative Technologist to drive the future of Agentic Transformation. Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is hiring for the Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to play a key role in the AgentOps team.

Why This Role Matters

Are you passionate about engineering cutting-edge agentic AI products for every business function at Pearson and shaping how everyone at Pearson works, collaborates, and learns? You will be part of a cross-functional team of product innovators, creative technologists, agentic solution architects, and AI engineers building the future of Pearson’s tools, systems, and processes.

In this key position, you will apply your full-stack engineering skills, computational design skills, synthetic multimedia production, and human-centered design skills to prototype and deploy agentic applications that help Pearson experts across all internal business functions do their work with agents at their side.

Role

As a key member at OCTO AgentOps and Pearson, you will be expected to embody and role model our leadership dimensions: Live Our Purpose, Simplify the Complexity, Carry Our Culture, and Deliver Results.

What You’ll Do

• Champion Agentic Engineering
• Drive the state of the art of agent-powered software engineering from prototype to production
• Rapidly engineer full-stack agent-ready applications, standalone agents, and agentic systems
• Develop Agentic Apps for Work
• Be the lead AI Engineer within AgentOps for custom agentic apps, tools, and systems
• Work as part of a rapidly moving team of agentic architects, UX prototyper, and engineers
• Raise the Bar of the Possible
• Stay ahead of the latest agentic AI technologies, tools, processes, and workflows
• Pilot emerging AI tools for research, design, prototyping, engineering, and media creation
• Educate and Evangelize
• Inspire and educate engineering teams across the company with the agentic art of the possible
• Facilitate workshops, hackathons, and masterclasses to drive adoption of agentic engineering

Who You Are

• A passionate super-generalist, a mix of design & engineering, art & science
• A curious tinkerer, prototyper, and builder with a portfolio of innovative projects
• An engineer with a sense of taste for great design and a technical artist who loves to code
• A creative storyteller and multimedia expert who can tell stories through synthetic media
• An opinionated expert with experience developing for AI, XR, mobile, web, wearables
• An entrepreneurial “builder” who gets things done without supervision
• 5+ years of experience in service design, UX/UI design, or product design
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development
• A portfolio of cutting-edge projects: professional, personal, and passion projects
• Expertise with React, Python, APIs, and LLMs
• Expertise with developing agents with no-code, low-code tools such as n8n or similar
• Expertise with developing agents using common frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen)
• Proven experience developing products with a variety of interfaces: voice, touch, XR
• Proficiency with vibe-coding tools (e.g., Lovable) and AI-powered IDEs (e.g., Cursor)

What You Bring

What You’ll Gain

• The principal Creative Technologist role in the AgentOps
• Opportunity to shape the future of our internal employee apps and agents
• A fast, innovative culture with cutting-edge experts across product, design, and engineering
• Access to the latest cutting-edge AI tools for design, research, and prototyping
• Opportunity to 10x portfolio with a diverse variety of rapidly developed projects across a range of use cases
• Direct exposure to senior leaders across all business functions at Pearson
• Being part of a brand new agentic innovation team at Pearson

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.

The minimum full-time salary range is between $150,000 - $180,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.