JOB: AI for Education Growth and Community Lead | CU BOULDER | Full-time (Hybrid)

[Thomas Breideband]

The Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at the University of Colorado Boulder anticipates hiring a full-time Growth and Community Lead to support the scaling of our AI for education products. In this position, you will work closely with the leadership team to create and identify opportunities to bring our products into classrooms and districts, and engage in activities to help support the implementation of our products at scale.

Link to the posting:  https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=72214

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

• Grassroots Digital Growth & Community Architecture: Design and manage digital awareness campaigns, webinars, and conferences to drive direct-to-teacher adoption. Cultivate our user base to identify power users, ultimately recruiting and managing these educators to become Local Ambassadors.
• District Partnerships & Outreach: Lead the district adoption strategy. Identify target districts, initiate strategic outreach, conduct highly persuasive demos with administrators, and navigate the district IT/privacy approval process by clearly communicating our privacy-first AI philosophy.
• System Automation & Growth Operations: Build and manage the systems that turn interest into adoption, including our contact pipeline, outreach and email campaigns for both teachers and school leaders. Track what’s working including onboarding of educators and active engagement and use the data to keep improving.
• Marketing Content & Brand Storytelling: Lead the creation of external-facing marketing and research dissemination content. Capture "magic moments" from our pilot classrooms and translate them into compelling case studies, digital campaigns, newsletter sequences, and whitepapers that highlight the impact and value of our work.
• Surge Activation & Classroom Connection: While the primary focus is responsible and sustainable scale, you will step in to support high-touch early adoption (1:1 technical onboarding clinics) as needed to eliminate friction for pilot teachers, ensuring you keep the pulse of the K-12 classroom.

What You Should Know

• This is a 1-to-3-year grant-funded position. The initial contract is for one year pending a six-month probationary period.
• Preferred start date: June 2026.
• Hybrid work schedule: Preference to those located in or willing to relocate to the Boulder/Denver Metro area.

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Thomas Breideband, PhD, Dr. phil.

Associate Director

NSF National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming

University of Colorado Boulder

thomas.b...@colorado.edu