[Hiring] Instructor, AI Workflows & Agents @Designlab

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced AI practitioner to help us develop and teach a new live, cohort-based course focused on AI workflows and agents for non-technical and semi-technical professionals.

• Collaborate with Designlab to shape the curriculum, learning objectives, exercises, and projects
• Teach live sessions to cohorts of working professionals
• Help students identify strong use cases for AI, automation, and agentic workflows
• Teach students how to build systems with the right context, tools, guardrails, and human checkpoints
• Help students troubleshoot, evaluate, and improve the workflows they build
• Keep course content current as the technology evolves

Qualifications

• You actively build useful AI-powered or agentic workflows as part of your work
• You have a clear perspective on when agents are useful and when they add unnecessary complexity
• You’re a strong operator who can break down messy processes and identify where AI can create real leverage
• You understand both the capabilities and limitations of today’s AI systems
• You can explain technical concepts clearly to people who don’t consider themselves technical
• You have experience teaching, speaking, writing, or otherwise explaining your work to an audience
• Your communication style adds clarity rather than hype
• You’re curious and hands-on enough to keep learning as the technology changes

Requirements

• Meaningful hands-on experience with several of the following:
• ChatGPT, Claude, or other frontier AI platforms
• Agentic and multi-step AI workflows involving tool use and decision-making
• Workflow platforms such as Zapier, Make, or n8n
• APIs, webhooks, connectors, MCP, or similar integrations
• Context design, reusable instructions, and knowledge sources
• Human-in-the-loop systems, guardrails, evaluation, and reliability

Bonus Points

• You’ve taught workshops, courses, or corporate training
• You’ve built AI workflows used regularly by a team or organization
• You’ve helped non-technical teams redesign how they work with AI
• You’re comfortable moving between no-code tools and light technical implementation

Time Commitment & Compensation

This is a part-time contract role. The initial engagement will include working with the Designlab team to develop the course, create teaching materials and exercises, and prepare for launch. The course itself is expected to run live over approximately four weeks.

• For comparable Designlab AI courses, rates have generally been in the range of:
• $150–200/hour for live instruction
• $90–120/hour for curriculum development, preparation, and course updates
• The exact scope, estimated hours, and compensation will be agreed upon before the engagement begins based on experience and the amount of curriculum development required.
• There may also be opportunities to teach future cohorts, workshops, or private team training.

Why Work With Designlab

AI agents are moving quickly from an interesting technical idea toward something ordinary professionals can actually use. At the same time, much of the conversation around agents is still either overly technical or overly hyped.

We want to build something more useful: a course that helps professionals recognize where AI can meaningfully change how work gets done and gives them the practical skills to build those systems themselves.

You’ll have a meaningful role in shaping that point of view and turning it into a course people can immediately put into practice.