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title: 'AI Learning Experience Lead at Pursuit'
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# AI Learning Experience Lead at Pursuit

- **Company:** Pursuit
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pursuit/jobs/8236075

## Job description

## About Pursuit

Pursuit is a social impact organization building the future of economic mobility in the age of AI.

For over a decade, we've transformed lives through immersive training programs that propel adults from low-income backgrounds — often without college degrees — into high-growth tech careers. Our graduates have already generated nearly $1 billion in lifetime wage gains. We've also pioneered the Pursuit Bond, an innovative outcomes-based financing model that aligns investor returns with long-term economic mobility, allowing us to scale impact in a financially sustainable way.

Now, as AI reshapes every industry, Pursuit is evolving into an AI-native organization. We're training AI-native talent, embedding AI into our operations, and building scalable software to extend our impact. From grassroots partnerships to national policy, we're not just filling jobs — we're rethinking how economic opportunity works at scale.

## About the Role

Pursuit is hiring an AI Learning Experience Lead to keep sharpening the learning experience across our AI-native programs — refining the curriculum, experience, and community that our facilitators deliver, as new technologies, market feedback, and learning outcomes point the way.

This role sits at the intersection of pedagogy, product, and problem-solving. Reporting to the VP of Training and Programs, you'll evolve what and how we teach, adapt the learning experience across different audiences and formats, and help build the AI training product that will power personalization and scale. You'll work closely with the Product team, our delivery staff, and external partners to keep Pursuit's learning experience tailored to the communities we serve, aligned to job outcomes, and responsive to a fast-moving AI and employment landscape.

You're energized by making something that already works even better — pulling signal from new technology, market feedback, and learning outcomes data, and turning it into sharper curriculum and delivery, quickly.

## Key Responsibilities

- Iterate on Pursuit's learning thesis: Continuously test and sharpen our beliefs about how and what we teach, what AI mastery looks like, and what Builders should walk away with — refining as new technology, market feedback, and outcomes data point the way.
- Operationalize and improve the learning experience: Own the high-level goals, progression models, and key learning activities that define each stage of our programs, evolving them as the programs scale.
- Define and measure learner outcomes: Track success metrics for Builders — including skill progression, job-readiness, and longer-term outcomes — and use data and feedback loops to refine curriculum and delivery at scale. This includes mapping curriculum to the specific skills Builders need and measuring their progression across those skills.
- Help build our AI training agent and other products that support the Builder learning experience: Define the instructional inputs — learning goals, templates, success criteria, pacing models — to power our AI learning agent and other learning products.
- Incorporate market insights: Actively gather input from Development, Jobs, and Program teams to inform what we teach and how we teach it.
- Prototype, test, and refine: Quickly build and iterate on content models, facilitator flows, and delivery systems based on user feedback and outcomes.
- Adapt the learning experience for new audiences: Modify and extend our curriculum across audiences and formats for our pilots and partnerships.

## About You

- 5-10 years in product management, learning & development systems, or workforce enablement.
- Experience designing transformational in-person experiences that use structure and community to drive outcomes.
- Familiarity with AI tools for learning and experience building workflows and prototypes using AI
- Product mindset: iterative, pragmatic, and data-informed, with real accountability for impact.
- Strong collaborator who communicates clearly and works well across functions in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.
- Deep empathy for adult learners, with a real read on what drives persistence and growth in high-barrier environments.
- Strong critical thinker who can design structured, scalable solutions in a startup-like setting, even without prior subject-matter expertise.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, bringing a flexible, can-do attitude to your work.
- Mission-Driven: You care deeply about equity, tech access, and expanding opportunity for underrepresented communities.

Where You'll Work

This role follows our standard hybrid pattern: Tuesday–Thursday on-site in Long Island City, with Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere.

## Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $130,000–$150,000.

The compensation range above reflects the expectations laid out in this job description; however, we're often open to a wide variety of profiles and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than posted. If that's the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Pursuit Offers

- An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech and social impact, and make a direct impact on the communities we serve
- Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus and a full benefits package
- 401k match
- Unlimited PTO and an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August, plus a week-long holiday the last week of December
- Hybrid schedule: Tuesday–Thursday on-site in Long Island City, Monday and Friday work-from-anywhere
- Catered lunches once a week and delicious snacks
- Dedicated time to build in AI and hone your AI skills

Pursuit Values Diversity

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization. We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Pursuit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pursuit is a social impact organization that transforms lives by training adults from underrepresented communities for high-growth careers in AI and technology, using an innovative outcomes-based financing model.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Nonprofit)
- **Headquarters**: Long Island City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Workforce development, technology education, AI training, and employer services.
- Target customers: B2B (employer partners ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies) and B2C (adult learners, referred to as “Builders,” from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds).
- Mission or purpose statement: “To create transformation” by catalyzing long-term change through community development, a revolutionary training and employment program, an innovative financing model, and sustained career support.

## Products & Services
- **Pursuit AI-Native Program**: Flagship training program that equips Builders with AI skills, professional competencies, and community support to thrive in AI-driven workplaces. Includes career coaching and a sourced job opportunity with partner employers.
- **Employer Partnerships (Pursuit Commit)**: Helps companies hire, retain, and nurture talent from non-traditional backgrounds through on-the-job support, training, and retention services.
- **Pursuit Bond**: An outcomes-based financing model that ties funding to successful long-term career outcomes, leveraging impact investment and capital markets alongside philanthropy.
- **Community Development**: Outreach and programs that introduce AI concepts early, making technology approachable and accessible to excluded communities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (nonprofit). The organization is in the early stages of a multi-year campaign with a directional goal of $45 million over three years.
- **Key Metric**: Historically, program participants have experienced a 400%+ jump in income on average, earning a starting salary of approximately $94,000 (up from an average of $18,000 before the program).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Employer hiring partners include venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies. Specific names not listed in sources, but cited as “best-in-class partners, funders, and employers.”
- **Growth Signals**: Shift to an AI-first curriculum, scaling fundraising to $45M, hybrid work model, and active hiring for senior roles (Director of Individual Giving, Chief of Staff, Account Executive for Job Outcomes).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcomes-Based Financing (Pursuit Bond)**: Aligns funding with actual job placement and career success, reducing risk for funders and incentivizing long-term support.
- **Integrated Model**: Combines community development, AI training, employer partnerships, and lifelong career support in a single, compounding system.
- **Proven Income Lift**: 400%+ average income increase and $2M lifetime earnings boost per Builder.
- **AI-Native Focus**: Early mover in preparing non-traditional talent for AI-driven roles, with a curriculum built around AI skills.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the AI-Native Program to meet growing demand for AI talent.
- Expanding employer partnerships to secure more job opportunities and improve retention.
- Raising $45 million through a multi-year campaign to fund growth and sustainability.
- Strengthening individual giving and philanthropy to diversify funding sources.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Impact**: Employees directly contribute to economic transformation for individuals, families, and communities, tackling systemic inequality.
- **Hybrid Work Culture**: Office in Long Island City with a hybrid approach; includes group lunches, happy hours, and game nights.
- **Benefits**: Premium health, dental, and vision coverage; virtual care and mental health platforms; health club/fitness class memberships; unlimited PTO; flexible parental leave; 401k with robust employer matching; pre-tax commuter benefits; flexible spending accounts.
- **Team & Values**: Diverse, passionate team with backgrounds in workforce development, tech, impact, policy, and operations. Values diversity and inclusion, equal opportunity employer.
- **Growth Opportunities**: Active hiring for senior leadership roles (Chief of Staff, Director of Individual Giving) and operational roles (Account Executive for Job Outcomes), signaling organizational expansion.

## Sources
1. [Pursuit Careers](https://www.pursuit.org/careers)
2. [Pursuit Homepage](https://www.pursuit.org/)
3. [Pursuit Our Approach](https://www.pursuit.org/our-approach)
4. [Pursuit Our Team](https://www.pursuit.org/our-team)
5. [Built In NYC](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/pursuit)

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