WHO WE ARE

Edmentum is a dynamic educator and student-focused company dedicated to tech-enabled learning solutions. Our goal is to ensure that all students have access to flexible learning environments and educators have the tools they need to support their students. We are on a mission to create innovative, proven learning technology, partnering with educators to ignite student potential. We are a Remote First organization with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

What You''ll Do

As a Senior Alignment and Assessment Design Specialist, you will own high-quality assessment and instructional content from concept through delivery, making sure every item, passage, and crosswalk is grounded in sound instructional design and aligned to the standards students are measured against. You will be the steady expert across your subject areas, the person who knows the lifecycle cold, partners across teams, and raises the bar on quality for everything the function ships.

In this role you will:

• Lead the development and refinement of assessment items, passages, and instructional content using a backwards design approach
• Develop CAS, assessment frameworks, and Task Model templates, and manage multi-round passage development with vendors
• Own state list submission work for your subject areas, including K to 8 correlations, ELPS crosswalks, and correlation CSV preparation
• Drive multi-round review and validation cycles and analyze field test data to recommend revisions
• Partner across curriculum, product, design, state strategy, and GTM teams as the subject-area content expert
• Stay current on early literacy research, phonics continuums, and Universal Screener design and share that knowledge across the team

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor''s degree (Master''s preferred) in education, English, literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, instructional design, or a related field
• You have 4 or more years of experience in assessment development, standards alignment, or a related educational role, and K to 12 classroom or curriculum experience is valued
• You have an advanced command of assessment design, item-writing standards, and validation methodologies
• You apply backwards design fluently to ground assessment design in instructional approach, skill statements, and state standards
• You have experience with state summative assessment design across fixed form, benchmark, and adaptive formats, including blueprints, standard setting, and performance level descriptors
• You understand scoring logic and TEI scoring design, and you collaborate comfortably with psychometricians on validity
• You can build and manage crosswalk workbooks and execute K to 8 correlations and ELPS crosswalks for state submissions
• You know early literacy frameworks and phonics continuums and can apply them to Universal Screener form development
• You are proficient with alignment, content management, and authoring platforms, and you have advanced Excel skills
• You exercise sound judgment about when to resolve issues independently and when to escalate
• You strengthen team culture through inclusive, trust-building collaboration
• You are willing to take on evolving responsibilities based on business needs.

Job Application Deadline: August 10, 2026

Pay range for this role:

$85,000-$100,000 USD

At Edmentum, we are committed to pay transparency. The salary range provided reflects market research, the responsibilities of the role, and alignment with our compensation principles. Actual compensation will be determined based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill sets. All compensation decisions are individualized and based on the specific circumstances of each candidate.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package to support your overall well-being and work-life balance. This includes medical, dental, and vision insurance with various plan options, a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching, and a flexible Time Away Program along with 10 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays, 1 wellness day, and a winter office closure at the end of December. Additionally, we provide resources to promote wellness, ensuring you have the support you need both professionally and personally. Our goal is to provide a benefits package that helps you thrive in all aspects of life.

Edmentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, status as a disabled, recently separated, Armed Forces service medal or other protected veteran ("covered veteran"), marital status, status regarding public assistance, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

We are dedicated to meeting the needs of individuals with disabilities and to creating an environment that supports our employees'' physical and mental health. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a covered veteran and need a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact recruiting@edmentum.com.

As part of our hiring process, we may use AI-powered tools to support our HR team in reviewing, screening, and managing applications. These tools aim to improve efficiency, consistency, and fairness, but final decisions are made by our people. Applicants'' personal information (e.g., resume, cover letter, qualifications, and application responses) may be processed by third-party AI tools for tasks like resume parsing, skills matching, candidate ranking, and interview scheduling.

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