Customer Success - Enablement & Training
Curriculum Developer, Technical Education
IC / Practitioner
Independently auditedMakes the rest of the organisation better at its job, on purpose. Owns a defined area of the function and the outcomes it produces.
Audited package
Built, independently audited role package. Everything on this page is written for this seat.
Your Stack (Swappable)
This role works against whatever tools you already run. We list the tool categories the role operates in, never a named vendor, so you are never asked to replace a system that works.
- Presentations
- Demo & POC Tooling
- Hands-on code
- Analytics & BI
- Learning & Development (LMS)
- Video scripting
- Recruiting & ATS
- Release tracking (currency)
- Team Chat & Collaboration
Deliverables
- Curriculum and training modules
- Certification paths
- Ramp plans
- Enablement impact reporting
Responsibilities
- Author course materials to an instructional design blueprint - slide decks, learner handbooks, reference guides, and cheat sheets - technically accurate and self-contained enough to teach without the author present
- Build hands-on labs end to end: the step-by-step lab guide, the lab environment (sandbox, seeded data, sample accounts, provisioning scripts), and the sample code or datasets the exercise uses - then run every step on a clean environment to prove it works
- Write assessment content - knowledge-check questions, quiz items, and hands-on skill checks - to the assessment strategy the designer set, with unambiguous, technically-correct items
- Write video scripts and storyboards for recorded content (an instructor or media team records; the developer authors the script)
- Author to accessibility standards as you build, not as a later pass - captions and transcripts for video, alt text and non-color-only cues in diagrams, readable contrast, and keyboard-navigable, screen-reader-followable lab guides - so the courseware is usable by every learner it ships to
- Run content-currency passes when the product ships: re-test labs, update steps, screenshots, API calls, and sample outputs, and retire deprecated flows so the courseware never teaches something that no longer exists
- Single-source facts (versions, commands, screenshots) so the catalog can be updated in one place, and prepare content for subject-matter-expert accuracy review
- Flag the Instructional Designer when a design is not buildable - an objective the product cannot demonstrate, or a lab the product cannot provision in the time given - with the specific reason
The essence of this seat
The Curriculum Developer is the build seat of a technical-education team - the individual contributor who takes an instructional design blueprint and turns it into finished, working course materials: slide decks, hands-on labs and the environments they run in, sample code and datasets, assessment items, learner handbooks, and video scripts.
Signature move
Build to the blueprint, not to a guess. The first move on any authoring task is to pin the objectives, module sequence, and assessment strategy the designer set, then build to that - and if an objective cannot be shown in the product or a lab cannot provision in the time given, flag it back with the specific reason rather than silently re-designing it
What good looks like
treats the blueprint as the contract and checks buildability first (flagging back, not re-designing); authors self-contained materials with the trick on the page; single-sources repeating facts; builds a hands-on that produces a verifiable artifact to match the assessment strategy; validates the lab on a clean environment and verifies the facts before shipping
Decision rights
- - how the material is built and assembled into working content (given the objectives), the technical wording and explanations, the lab implementation and its environment, the sample code and datasets, the exact assessment items authored to the supplied strategy, the currency cadence of published content, and whether a lab actually passes - you sign off buildability
Working vocabulary
What this role does
The Curriculum Developer is the build seat of a technical-education team - the individual contributor who takes an instructional design blueprint and turns it into finished, working course materials: slide decks, hands-on labs and the environments they run in, sample code and datasets, assessment items, learner handbooks, and video scripts. They are the maker in the chain design -> author -> deliver: the Instructional Designer produces the blueprint (objectives, module structure, assessment strategy), the Curriculum Developer authors the materials to it, and the Technical Instructor delivers them. This is an individual-contributor role, reporting into a Customer Education Lead or a Product Training Manager, and accountable for two things above all: the technical accuracy and the buildability of what ships - not for designing the instruction (the Instructional Designer), owning the experience standards and journey (the Senior Learning Experience Designer), teaching the class (the Technical Instructor), or running the program (the Product Training Manager). What separates great from average is that the materials work when the author is not in the room: a lab that provisions cleanly and runs every step, a code sample that compiles, an assessment item with exactly one defensible answer, a screenshot that matches the shipping product. The average developer builds a deck that looks right on their screen; the great one runs the lab as a learner on a clean environment, catches the broken command before a learner copies it, and keeps the whole catalog current when the product ships a release that quietly rots half the screenshots.
Best-fit customer
teams whose knowledge sits with a handful of people and needs to scale
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