About This Role
Project Lead, EdTech is the operational driver of custom learning-engineering projects, responsible for guiding a project from kickoff through final delivery. This 1099 contractor role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing budgets and staffing, communicating directly with clients, and ensuring each project’s goals are met with quality, efficiency, and clarity. It suits someone who thrives at the intersection of instructional design, learning technology, and project execution.
Responsibilities
- Own the full lifecycle of assigned learning-engineering projects from planning to delivery
- Translate client goals into clear scopes, schedules, staffing plans, and deliverable expectations
- Manage budgets, forecast hours, and track burn rates to ensure financial alignment
- Identify, onboard, and manage designers, developers, writers, SMEs, and freelancers
- Set expectations, organize workflows, and hold the team accountable for quality and timelines
- Maintain alignment with Wisewire’s systems, standards, and production frameworks
- Serve as the main point of contact for all assigned projects
- Communicate proactively about progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions
- Build client trust by delivering clarity, consistency, and high-quality outcomes
- Ensure deliverables meet instructional integrity, learning-science principles, and creative standards
- Review work products, provide actionable feedback, and resolve bottlenecks
- Promote repeatable processes and templates that elevate future project efficiency
- Apply emerging tools (Generative AI, automation, prototyping tools) to streamline workflows
- Support the creation of evidence-based, technology-enhanced learning experiences
- Contribute to Wisewire’s evolving set of learning-engineering practices
Requirements
- Experienced instructional designer, project lead, or learning engineer with full project ownership experience
- Skilled at leading distributed teams and managing freelance talent
- Strong communicator who can operate independently while keeping stakeholders aligned
- Comfortable using AI-powered tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Runway, Notion AI, etc.), LMS platforms, and authoring tools (Articulate, Captivate, Rise, etc.)
- Calm under pressure, organized, and able to turn ambiguity into forward motion
Nice to have:
- Experience with XR/VR/AR, simulations, or game-based learning environments
- Familiarity with data-driven or automated workflows
Important Details
- Contract: 1099 contractor role
- Schedule: hours vary by project; no guaranteed minimum
