**Content Developer Job Description**
As a **Specialist, Content Developer (English Language Arts)** within the **Asset Creation** team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Develop and review content-specific test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
+ Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents
+ Leverage AI-powered tools to support the development, review, and enhancement of assessment content, ensuring outputs meet quality and accessibility standards
+ Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows, providing feedback using content and educational expertise
+ Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices
+ Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise
+ Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms
+ Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc.
+ Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
+ Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI
+ Perform other duties as assigned
+ Some travel required
**Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience required
+ Five years' experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred
+ Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required
+ Some experience in large-scale, educational measurement preferred
+ General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred
+ Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or clear evidence of strong potential and readiness to leverage AI effectively in content creation
+ Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education purposes
+ Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
+ Demonstrated interest in learning about and adapting to new AI technologies as they evolve
+ Outstanding oral and written communication skills
+ Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences
+ Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected event
**Compensation at Pearson** is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The minimum full-time salary range is between $65,000 - $70,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
**_Applications will be accepted through Monday, July 27, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs._**
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**Job:** Learning Subject Matter Experts
**Job Family:** LEARNING\_&\_CONTENT\_DEVELOPMENT
**Organization:** Assessment & Qualifications
**Schedule:** FULL\_TIME
**Workplace Type:** Remote
**Req ID:** 25176
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Specialist, Content Developer (English Language Arts)
Pearson · Multiple locations · Remote ·
- Pay:
- $65,000-$70,000/yr
- Job type:
- Full Time
About Pearson
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always reexamining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology—and each other to surpass these boundaries—we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Pearson’s Online & Blended Learning K-12 group provides high-quality, highly accountable online education solutions to schools, school districts and students in grades K-12. The group, formerly known as Connections Education, is based in Columbia, Maryland and has been named a “Top Workplace” by the Baltimore Sun for three consecutive years and a “Best Place to Work” by Baltimore magazine. Recognized for its outstanding curriculum, high-quality teachers and leadership, Pearson Online & Blended Learning is committed to expanding quality education through technology, and helping students achieve both academic and personal success.
Pearson Online & Blended Learning is focused on providing a flexible work environment to its employees, including the ability to work from home on a regular basis in most positions. We believe that flexibility in work/life balance is a critical part of our culture and employee satisfaction, and we are proud to provide to our employees the ability to work from anywhere, anytime. In exchange, we require that employees have the appropriate means to work remotely, including adherence to our work at home policies regarding home office setup, including but not limited to privacy of records, technology standards, equipment standards and expectations.
The following equipment will be provided to you by the company as a full-time employee:
- Laptop and phone
- Headset
The following equipment will need to be provided by you, as the employee, when working from home:
- 2nd monitor (required)
- Mouse (required)
- Keyboard (required)