Learning Designer - English Language

About Us

Toko is on a mission to help the 1.5 billion English learners in the world unlock better economic opportunities. For non-native English speakers, leveling up English can materially better their career prospects and their families' lives. For some users, it means unlocking a 3x increase in salary. But any foreign language learner knows that speaking is the hardest part. Toko helps English learners become fluent in speaking. Through our app, users engage in short conversations with an AI to build confidence for real-life scenarios. We make language fluency accessible to everyone - not just those with the means to meet 1:1 with a tutor. In the Taiwan App Store, Toko is in the top 3 apps for Education! Toko has thousands of active paying subscribers and is growing rapidly. We’re a proudly women-led team with engineering & product experience at Quizlet, Palantir, Codecademy, Google, and MIT. Toko is backed by a roster of incredible angels and top-tier VCs including GSV and Y Combinator. We're revolutionizing language fluency - join us!

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About the Role

We’re hiring a contract Learning Designer to design and create engaging content and curriculum for beginner English learners who use Toko to improve their spoken conversation skills. Our users are adult, native Chinese speakers who mostly live in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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Compensation

$50-$100/hr, billed hourly or by project

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Responsibilities

• Design curriculum for our Beginner English (A2) Tutoring course (focused on spoken English conversation), such that users are able to apply learned words, phrases, and sentence patterns in spoken conversation upon completing a unit
• Leverage a corpus to select commonly used and appropriately leveled words, phrases, and sentence patterns
• Write example exercises for users to learn selected words, phrases, sentence patterns
• Collaborate with our technical team to integrate curriculum into our mobile app

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Qualifications

• You have 3+ years of recent experience creating curriculum for spoken conversational English, preferably for native Chinese speakers
• You have experience with corpus-based English learning methodologies
• You can work during East Coast business hours (to facilitate collaboration)
• You have classroom teaching or 1:1 English tutoring experience, preferable with native Chinese speakers
• You're tech-savvy and frequently use mobile apps, Slack, Zoom, etc.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English

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Bonus

• You have a background in linguistics (MA or PhD) or TESOL
• You are familiar with CEFR standards
• You have experience developing content for language learning apps or online language learning platforms

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Technology

We're tackling unsolved NLP and automated speech recognition problems, like dynamic content generation and understanding accented English.

We use Flutter, Flask/Python, Firebase, and Google Cloud Platform.

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How to Apply

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