Learning Operations / Automation Manager

About Noon Academy

Workplace

• This is a full-time, Riyadh-based role with an office near the Boulevard.

Role Overview

What You Will Own

• Own team goals, one-to-ones, feedback, development, and hiring for Design Leads and related production roles.
• Document how lessons, question banks, and assessments are produced before automating the workflows.
• Own the science content roadmap across Grades 7–12, National and International tracks, and multiple assessment programs.
• Run capacity planning, production planning, prioritisation, and operational unblocking.
• Set design standards, review gates, and quality assurance workflows with Learning Excellence and Head Teachers.
• Use assessment and learning-gain data to improve future content production.
• Coordinate delivery across Head Teachers, Learning Excellence, Product, Engineering, Data, customer experience, and School Operations.
• Build templates, trackers, playbooks, review rituals, and AI-assisted production systems.
• Design and build AI-driven workflows and tooling using AI agents, data pipelines, and internal tools.

Must Have

• At least 3 years of people-management experience, with 5 years preferred.
• Background in technology or education, ideally both.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, workflows, prototypes, skills, or internal tools using tools such as Claude or ChatGPT.
• Proven delivery in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with ownership of outcomes.
• Fluent Arabic, strong professional English, and a Riyadh base.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Zapier, Make, n8n, or basic Python scripting.
• Instructional design or e-learning certification.
• Familiarity with Tahsili, Qudrat, or Nafes assessments.
• 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.

Why This Role

• The role has responsibility for four Design Leads, a contractor pool, six programs, Grades 7–12, and National and International tracks.
• The successful candidate will define the operating system for science content production and work with senior learning leadership.
• Learning gain, exam outcomes, and delivery reliability provide measurable performance indicators.