Content Designer

Who We Are:

Mursion provides an award-winning upskilling platform trusted by top companies to measurably improve employees' interpersonal intelligence and build stronger organizations. Powered by multimodal AI and a unique practice-based approach, our real-world, interactive simulations deliver lasting results. Our solutions are grounded in behavioral science and psychology to build confidence and positive behaviors, and ultimately help reduce the costs of stress. Mursion’s product suite includes AI-powered simulations, human reinforcement assessment & coaching, and advanced analytics that lead to measurable skills acquisition.

Mursion is a well-funded Series B startup that is backed by future of work and Edtech investing veterans, like Leeds Illuminate and New Markets Venture Partners. Mursion is the largest simulation company, with more than 800K+ simulations to date and more than 200K users per year, with a growing global footprint. By 2026, we will be delivering 2 million simulations per year. 

Who We Want:

We seek applicants with demonstrated expertise in K-12 instruction, who are inspired by our mission to leverage virtual reality technology to reinvent educator readiness and continuous growth, and who are eager to contribute to the design of innovative simulation experiences across diverse educational contexts. We value empathy, curiosity, and constant improvement both in our internal operations and when working with partners and clients. Our employees are most successful when they employ strong collaboration skills, skilled communications, a problem-solving orientation, and demonstrate comfort in an evolving and fast-paced startup environment. 

Position Overview:

We are currently seeking a Content Designer to oversee and participate in the design and development of immersive simulations that reflect real challenges educators, education leaders, and students face. The ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise and be a quick learner excited to support the development of high quality, science-backed simulations that drive impact for our participants, customers, and development partners. The Content Designer is detail-oriented, enjoys working closely with others, asks questions and is receptive to feedback and instruction while bringing a diverse perspective, balances proactivity and initiative with collaboration and teamwork, and is comfortable working in fast-paced environments. 

This is a fully remote, full-time, salaried position reporting to the Senior Research Scientist. This position has a compensation range of $65,000-$70,000 annual salary.

Responsibilities: 

• Coordinate and oversee education simulation projects and partner engagements, ensuring work remains aligned with goals and timelines while fostering clear communication, maintaining accurate documentation and tracking, and providing support to other subject matter experts and design partners.
• Design Live (i.e. human facilitated) and On-demand (i.e. AI) simulations in alignment with Mursion’s science-backed approach and standard operating procedures, crafting authentic storylines and conversations that reflect real-world education and classroom dynamics and contexts that support the practice of essential interpersonal skills and teaching practices and competencies.
• Author participant- and client-facing materials for simulations that effectively prepares participants for practice and equips clients with clear, accessible descriptions of simulations that demonstrate their relevance and value.
• Learn and apply Mursion’s skills and teaching frameworks to design simulations that accurately and effectively reflect targeted competencies, ensuring authenticity and alignment with desired outcomes.
• Participate in and lead scenario testing, feedback, and evaluation.
• Draft scoring criteria for scenarios that enable valid and reliable AI assessment of simulation performance to deliver participants accurate, actionable feedback and provide customers with insights that demonstrate impact and measurable return on investment. 
• Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to define and refine scenario-specific design specifications.
• Create training materials for Live simulations, ensuring Simulation Specialists are prepared to deliver the scenarios accurately, authentically, and consistently.

• Lead training sessions for the Simulation Specialists.
• Test, iterate on, modify, and refine Mursion simulations.
• Analyze data and feedback to maintain, improve, and update simulations.

Qualifications

• Experience in education content development and/or simulation authoring.
• Subject matter expertise in K-12 education required demonstrated through a graduate degree in Education or a related field, specialized training or certification such as state teaching licensure or NBCT, classroom teaching experience, development of curriculum or assessments for K-12 contexts, or experience in teacher preparation). 
• Background in psychology, educational psychology, learning sciences, curriculum & instruction, and/or research methods preferred but not required.
• Strong writing and copyediting skills.
• Technical curiosity and experience working with and learning about AI tools for scenario or content development required; experience collaborating with prompt engineers preferred. 
• Ability to work both cross-functionally and independently; excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Effectively builds relationships and trust with colleagues within the team and across the organization.
• Demonstrated strengths in attention to detail, curiosity, adaptability, perspective taking, and collaboration, with the ability to produce quality content in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong project management experience and ability to effectively manage multiple projects and partners simultaneously.

We understand that not everyone will demonstrate proficiency in all of the areas listed under the responsibilities and qualifications. At Mursion, we strive to raise the bar! We encourage women and historically marginalized communities to apply if you feel your skills and life experiences are transferable to some of the qualifications in the job description.

• Competitive Salary, bonus eligibility and equity
• 401K, Flexible PTO
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Parental Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Work From Home