Senior Director, Professional Education (Math)

About this role

WHO WE ARETeaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at .OUR VALUESTeaching Lab seeks to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning in pursuit of excellent educational outcomes for every child.

Teaching Lab’s ultimate goals are:

• Educators learn more than they would without us

• Students learn more than they would without us, in a way that cannot be predicted by race, gender, or family income

• Educators we serve say they love our approach, and they want to keep doing it to advance educational equity

All employees are expected to embrace Teaching Lab’s Values to help us achieve our ultimate goals.

• Collaboration & Responsive Service

• Resilient Solution-Finding

• Research & Learning With Humility

• Accountable Excellence

• Equity & Justice

Read more about Teaching Lab’s Values here.

Type of Vacancy:Salaried (Full-Time)
Start Date: December 2026
Location: NE US: While this is a remote position, we strongly prefer candidates who reside in the Northeastern United States (NY, NJ, PA, MA, CT, VT, ME, RI) due to the regional focus of this role. Applicants from other locations are still encouraged to apply.
Department: Program
Reports To: Chief Professional Education Officer
Supervises: Often supervises Director(s), Program, Senior Manager(s), Program, and/or other Senior Director(s), Program. Dependent on the project, the Senior Director, Program is often a Project Leader with project team supervision responsibilities
Travel:Remote with frequent travel
Compensation: $125,000 to $164,889
Areas of Expertise:Programmatic Leadership Strategy: Helping set and advance programmatic goals and strategy, including identifying partnership challenges and innovating solutions to improve teaching and learning at scale. Math Content Expertise: Serving as a content-area expert in math curriculum and instruction, applying deep knowledge of College- and Career-Ready math standards to shape programmatic decisions and build team members' content expertise. Project and Team Leadership: Leading complex, cross-project and cross-departmental initiatives, managing programmatic projects and team members across content development, state/district implementation, and coaching/facilitation.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTThe Professional Education department’s primary purpose is to design, deliver, and continuously improve teacher professional learning programs that strengthen instructional practice and drive student achievement. The team’s main functions include managing and implementing scopes of work with partners, providing coaching and professional learning for teachers and leaders, and creating research-based content and learning assets tailored to partner needs. The Professional Education department contributes to Teaching Lab’s mission by ensuring that every partnership drives measurable impact on teacher practice and student learning, advancing educational equity at scale.

ABOUT THE ROLEThe Senior Director, Professional Education (Math) provides strategic leadership for the NYC Solves coaching and professional learning portfolio, setting the vision, priorities, and systems needed to deliver high-quality programs and achieve strong educator and student outcomes. The Senior Director aligns program strategy, instructional quality, staffing, partnerships, and resources across the portfolio; leads cross-functional collaboration and decision-making; and ensures effective execution across a complex set of projects and stakeholders.

The Senior Director is accountable for the strategic growth, financial performance, and sustainability of the NYC Solves portfolio, including developing opportunities to expand impact, strengthening and deepening partner relationships, and achieving revenue and programmatic goals. This role identifies and addresses portfolio-level opportunities and challenges, makes strategic tradeoffs, and empowers teams to execute against shared priorities in service of Teaching Lab’s mission to strengthen educator practice and improve student learning and outcomes.

ESSENTIAL PROJECTS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIESThe Senior Director, Professional Education (Math) will hold responsibilities in the following areas:

Support the development of Teaching Lab's programmatic strategy and leadership of assigned portfolios (50%)
• Develop and execute a programmatic vision, owning work streams tied to program and strategic plan metrics, and partner with the CPO to solve programmatic and partnership challenges through new programming. Manage projects such as content development, district and school implementation, and coaching, often as Project Lead or Sponsor. Serve as a math content expert, build team expertise, and support client contract renewals and business development.

Provide team leadership and staff development for various levels of staff (30%)

• Manage a group of Project Leads by setting quarterly portfolio metrics, implementing data collection, and adjusting strategy based on impact data. Set the vision for coaching and professional development, including observation and feedback, shared best practices, adjunct coach training, and a monthly new hire PLC. Model people manager competencies by coaching direct reports, addressing development needs, and monitoring workloads and capacity.

Manage and model an exemplary coaching and facilitation program (10%)

• Model exemplary facilitation and coaching by directly supporting a portfolio of partners, using baseline…