Description
Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.
Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.
Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.
What does a Learning Designer - German do at Busuu?
You’ll work on shaping an impactful language learning experience for over 120+ million learners in over 190 countries. You will be responsible for designing, maintaining and improving our German content, ensuring that learners can progress and apply their language skills in a real-world and professional context. In this role, you will combine pedagogical expertise, learner data, and competitive insights to create effective, engaging, and accessible content. You will also contribute to the evolution of Busuu’s AI driven features, ensuring that AI enhances the learning journey while crafting a cohesive meaningful experience for the learners.
On a day-to-day basis, your responsibilities are likely to include:
1. Create, maintain and update our German syllabi and lessons, applying best pedagogical and instructional design principles for digital language learning
2. Working with Busuu’s content management system to build and publish new content and maintain existing courses
3. Checking and critiquing other team members’ lesson plans as part of our internal quality assurance process
4. Analyse learner data and conduct research to identify content gaps and opportunities, challenges and usage patterns while keeping up to date with competitors and trends
5. Contribute to the evolution of the product, ensuring our methodology adapts to new technology and features as they emerge
6. Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to contribute to the evolution of our courses and AI features and make sure they are aligned with our learners’ needs
Essential skills and experience
7. Masters-level qualification in languages, linguistics or education
8. Proven experience teaching German as a foreign language
9. Experience creating lesson content and planning your own lessons
10. Deep understanding of German grammar and language systems
11. Interest in and / or experience with AI in education
12. Data-driven mindset to make the best decisions for learners needs
13. Both native and non-native speakers of {language} are welcome to apply, but a C2 level mastery of the language is expected.
14. Advanced proficiency in English (C1 or above)
Bonus skills and experience
15. Experience working in an Edtech company
16. Experience learning a foreign language
17. Experience in using a Content Management system
18. Experience in prompt writing for Large Language Models such as ChatGPT for educational purposes
At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:
19. Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit
20. You get 2 free lunches per week at our office that you can choose out of a wide selection of restaurants in the area
21. Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme
22. Wellness platform (Wellhub) with access to wide range of fitness and wellbeing resources
23. There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers
24. We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working
25. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on location)
26. Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such a team lunches, Friday socials, quarterly team, and company events
What happens next?
We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around. The hiring process for this role has the following 4 steps:
27. CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible and update you on the next steps
28. Let’s chat - Quick chat with a member of our team about your experience and the role
29. Interview - With the Hiring Manager
30. Test - You will be asked to complete a 90-minute home test to see your language skills & pedagogic approach
31. Interview and Meet the team - Interview to review the task and speak with other colleagues in the team