Learning Operations / Automation Manager

About the role Noon is changing how students in Saudi learn a remote star teacher, a physical classroom, an in-room facilitator, and a content engine that has to keep up with all of it. The Learning Team owns that engine: term plans, session design, question banks, and assessments across Qudrat, Tahsili, Nafes, the National Curriculum, and our International track. We're hiring a Learning Design Manager to run the Sciences (Biology / Chemistry) side of it. This is a management and delivery role, not an academic one. You will not be writing lessons your four Design Leads do that, and they're the subject-matter experts. Your job is to make sure the right content gets built, to the right standard, on time, every single term, by a team that gets better each cycle. If you've spent your career as an individual contributor designing curriculum, this isn't your role. If you've spent it getting a team of specialists to ship reliably under pressure, keep reading.

What you'll own

• The team. Four Design Leads covering Biology (Tahsili), Chemistry (Tahsili), Science (Middle School & Nafes), and Bio & Chem (International) plus content creators and a QA contractor. You own their goals, their 1:1s, their feedback, their growth, and hiring for the seats that are still open.
• The delivery plan. The science content roadmap end-to-end: what gets built, in what order, by whom, by when, across Grades 7 12 on both the National and International tracks. At any moment, you know what's on track, what's slipping, and what you're doing about it.
• The operating cadence. Capacity planning, production planning, prioritisation calls, and unblocking. You run the rituals that keep a multi-subject, multi-grade pipeline moving without weekly firefighting.
• The quality bar. Working with Learning Excellence and the Head Teachers to set design standards, review gates, and QA workflows so quality is a repeatable process, not a heroic effort by whoever cares most.
• The feedback loop. Exit Ticket, Diagnostic, End-of-Chapter, and Learning Gain data already exist. You make it actually change what gets built next term, in partnership with Data and Learning Excellence.
• Cross-functional delivery. Head Teachers, Learning Excellence, Product, Engineering, Data, customer experience and School Ops all touch this pipeline. You're the person who makes those handoffs work.
• Scale. Build the templates, trackers, playbooks, and review rituals that let content volume grow without headcount growing in lockstep including our move toward AI-assisted content production.

Must have 3 5+ years managing people (5 preferred; 3 acceptable if you're exceptional elsewhere). Background in tech or education ideally both. Edtech platforms, Saudi tech startups, or learning organisations that ship on a schedule. Proven delivery in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Decisive, self-driven, comfortable making a call with incomplete information and owning the outcome. Fluent Arabic and strong professional English. Based in Riyadh.

Nice to have

• Certification in instructional design or e-learning
• Familiarity with Saudi national assessments Tahsili, Qudrat, Nafes
• Experience managing distributed teams, contractors, or freelance production pools
• Comfort with data tooling, dashboards, and AI-assisted content workflows
• Experience in international or multicultural teams