Instructional Content Developer - Maths and Science (12 Month Maternity Cover)
uplearn
London, England, United Kingdom · London · United Kingdom
Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Contract
- Content
- Entry level
uplearn
London, England, United Kingdom · London · United Kingdom
Posted Aug 11, 2026
We are on a mission to build the most effective learning experiences in the world, and we need your expertise to make it happen. Our Content and Learning team is hard at work improving our existing A-Level offering, and creating our first wave of GCSE Science and Maths courses.
This is a 12-month maternity leave cover position, with the potential to transition into a permanent role as our team and course library continue to expand.
This role is critical to hitting that goal. You’ll combine subject knowledge in maths and the sciences with creative visual skills to produce exceptional educational content.
You’ll work across two main areas:
You’ll join a team that thrives on collaboration and problem-solving. With a small content development team, you’ll have real responsibility and the opportunity to drive our content forward across the sciences.
Where appropriate, we develop and use generative AI tools to assist Content Developers in their workflow.
If you’re a quick learner, passionate about education, and excited by the idea of combining technical knowledge with creativity, this role is for you.
At Up Learn, we’ve built one of the world’s most effective learning experiences by combining cognitive science, instructional theory, and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to give every learner the most effective path to success, and our vision is to create a world where every learner achieves more, faster, through adaptive, mastery-based learning.
We’re the market-leading platform for A Levels, with seven courses on offer and 1 in 3 A Level students using Up Learn. Over the next year, we’re launching GCSE Science and Maths and accelerating growth, expanding our impact to millions more students.
Our results speak for themselves: 97% of students who complete our courses achieve an A*/A, even those who started with lower grades. And a large-scale evaluation of Up Learn in schools found usage is associated with 9 months additional progress, with grade improvements across whole year groups.
And for every paying student, we provide a full scholarship to a student in need - ensuring high-quality education is accessible to all.
Our core values:
🫶 CARE: Put people and mission first. Celebrate success together.
✅OWN: Take responsibility. Step up. Transparently own outcomes.
💡LEARN: Live for learning. Seek feedback. Turn challenges into opportunities.
🚀 ACT: Prioritise progress. Challenge what’s possible. Move the needle.
You’re a problem solver with a strong maths background, able to switch between technical accuracy and creative storytelling. You’re confident in learning new tools and applying them quickly. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where your work has a direct impact on students’ success. You’re excited by the opportunity to combine human creativity and expertise with support from generative AI tools, where appropriate.
You might be a recent maths or science graduate, an experienced maths tutor, or someone with a STEM background looking to apply your skills in EdTech.
You should be:
Requirements
Animation & Content Creation
Quiz Development & Quality Assurance
We know that the right person might not tick every box below. If you believe you’re a great fit and are ready to learn, we encourage you to apply.
Essential
Preferred
Benefits
We provide a great set of benefits that all focus on helping Up Learn team members lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Working at Up Learn gives you:
🤸♂️ Awesome colleagues! We’ve put together a cracking team, and now you’re part of it you’ll shape the future of it
💚 Meaningful, fulfilling and engaging work that has an immediate positive impact on tens of thousands of students and the potential to impact millions of students
🧠 The opportunity to build the future of education and accelerate humanity’s ability to learn
💪 Tons of opportunities to learn and develop a wide range of skills
🏠 Up Learn supports a hybrid working environment with a minimum of two days in the office per week (one team day and one company day) and the rest is up to you!
Key benefits:
💰 A competitive salary
📈 Meaningful stake in the company’s growth and success (equity share options)
🌴 ~35 days of paid holiday per year made up of: 26 days of bookable holiday, plus bank holidays, plus unlimited ‘extra days’ (i.e. if you need a few more days, no problem)
🐤 Significantly enhanced parental leave
🦷 Level 6 (highest level) dental insurance
☕ Paid-for coffee breaks (a great chance to get to know the team)
🏃 Monthly & quarterly paid-for socials and quality time with your work colleagues as well as an in-office shower room to make sporting activities easier to join
⭐ A spacious and bright private office in Old Street, with delicious coffee, a selection of teas and unlimited snacks and drinks
🚲 Cycle-to-Work: we are registered so you can buy a bike and accessories tax-free
📖 Unlimited budget for any work-related books you need
👨👩👧 Family access to Up Learn: your family and close relatives get unlimited access to any Up Learn course for free!
Our schools are broken. Teachers sacrifice real education for exam preparation, while students are left overworked and disappointed with their results.Research from cognitive science has made profound progress into how students actually learn most effectively, but many schools continue to use ineffective, outdated learning techniques.And technology is everywhere, but in education it’s often only used as a simple revision tool or classroom gimmick.So we started from first principles: if you had one student in a room with a hundred world-class tutors and teachers, and unlimited resources, how would you use science to design the most effective educational experience, one that guarantees the student achieves an A* grade?And then: how can we use technology to make that same educational experience accessible to everyone?The result was Up Learn.We use artificial intelligence and cognitive science to empower the world’s best teachers and ensure every student can achieve an A* grade - whatever their background.Over 70,000 students have now signed up to Up Learn to take control of their learning. In the last two years, 97% of students who completed our courses achieved an A or A* in their final exams - with many starting from grades as low as Ds and Us.And for every student who pays for an Up Learn course, we give a course free to a student who can't.Up Learn is making the world’s most effective education available to everyone.We’ve now raised over two and a half million pounds to create our next wave of A Level and GCSE courses, expanding our reach to 2 million new students every year.We're looking for exceptionally smart people to join our team working to solve education. If you're up for the challenge, we’d love to meet you.Our schools are broken. Teachers sacrifice real education for exam preparation, while students are left overworked and disappointed with their results.
Research from cognitive science has made profound progress into how students actually learn most effectively, but many schools continue to use ineffective, outdated learning techniques.
And technology is everywhere, but in education it’s often only used as a simple revision tool or classroom gimmick.
So we started from first principles: if you had one student in a room with a hundred world-class tutors and teachers, and unlimited resources, how would you use science to design the most effective educational experience, one that guarantees the student achieves an A* grade?
And then: how can we use technology to make that same educational experience accessible to everyone?
The result was Up Learn.
We use artificial intelligence and cognitive science to empower the world’s best teachers and ensure every student can achieve an A* grade - whatever their background.
Over 70,000 students have now signed up to Up Learn to take control of their learning. In the last two years, 97% of students who completed our courses achieved an A or A* in their final exams - with many starting from grades as low as Ds and Us.
And for every student who pays for an Up Learn course, we give a course free to a student who can't.
Up Learn is making the world’s most effective education available to everyone.
We’ve now raised over two and a half million pounds to create our next wave of A Level and GCSE courses, expanding our reach to 2 million new students every year.
We're looking for exceptionally smart people to join our team working to solve education.
If you're up for the challenge, we’d love to meet you.