Share your passion. Shape the future of tech.
Build your brand
Get your name in front of a global audience. Build (or reinforce) your credibility as a tech expert and thought leader. Make Pluralsight Skills a channel for your expanding influence.
Supplement your income
Welcome to the world’s best side gig: help the world learn tech—and get paid for it. You worked hard for the expertise you’ve developed, and we’ll pay you for sharing that valuable knowledge.
Make an impact on the future
Tomorrow’s pioneers need your knowledge. As an Author, you’ll empower individuals to boost their career and enable tech teams—from small businesses to enterprises—to deliver innovations.
Create with us
Video courses
Educate a global audience with technology learning videos. These courses will live on the Pluralsight Skills platform, where your teaching will benefit everyone from Python novices to cloud gurus, from individuals looking to make a career change to enterprise teams.
Assessments
Help learners measure their skills by building adaptive assessments. Skill assessments help learners test their proficiency and track their progress. Their results also include tailored learning recommendations to help them improve.
Hands-on labs
Enable technologists to learn by doing in secure cloud sandbox environments. Labs complement courses by giving learners a place to test their skills without the risk of breaking anything or running up costs.
Featured authors
"Sharing knowledge is in my DNA. For more than sixteen years, I’ve been contributing to the tech community. Pluralsight is an amazing platform that lets me reach a global audience of tech professionals and help them advance their careers. I’m thrilled by the positive impact us authors are making through this platform."
Steve Buchanan
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft (Azure) | Technology Leader
"It’s an exciting time to be working in technology education and Pluralsight allows me to teach the newest technologies to a broad professional audience. I love teaching with Pluralsight because we work together to create high quality courses.."
Sarah Holderness
"At Pluralsight I’ve found my ikigai. I love teaching cybersecurity, it’s something the world needs and I get paid to do it.If you’re a great technology educator, the world also needs you — and you too can find your ikigai at Pluralsight."
John Elliot
"Authoring for Pluralsight has been extra rewarding as it provided me with a venue to pursue my passion for teaching. It is great to have an amazing team alongside us authors who help us make courses that positively impact a global audience of tech professionals and underserved communities."
Maria Wilvenna Anora
"Pluralsight is definitely the best platform for sharing your knowledge, not only because its large global exposure, huge domains, and quality, but because of the amazing teams that will partner with you to make cutting-edge content. One of my favorite benefits is to get closer to amazing authors that you know and trust, and that inspire you to beat more challenges."
Mario Mercado
"I love creating courses for Pluralsight, I get to learn and work with cutting edge technologies and really dive deep into how things work. Teaching is fun and teaching with Pluralsight is great fun."
Janani Ravi
Frequently asked questions
Our Authors are incredible storytellers driven by their passion for technology. They blend their knowledge and enthusiasm to communicate concepts and demonstrate tasks in a compelling way that helps people learn. These qualities make our Authors some of the best in the industry.
Our platform reaches more than one million learners and 9,500 companies in over 150 countries. Some learners are getting their feet wet, others are looking to make a change, and some want to expand their horizons and opportunities. Our goal: Make the best professional education available to them all.
One of our Author Community Managers will guide you in creating a short audition video using our audition kit. This video helps us evaluate your energy and teaching prowess. No additional hardware or software is required.
The amount of time it takes to create your course depends on its length and what you can commit to each week. As you continue authoring for Pluralsight, the course creation process will get faster. For your first project, your Author Community Manager will work with you to give you some flexibility and set expectations.
Video course compensation is partially based on viewership within the platform. We pay viewership payments on a quarterly basis.
From start to finish, an assessment takes three months to produce. We break production into three phases:
Blueprinting: Mapping out the assessment outline, which usually takes less than 2 weeks
Question writing: Drafting questions for the assessment, which requires 4 – 6 weeks
Reviewing: Vetting the quality of the assessment, which is a 1 – 2 week process
You can work on one phase or all of them depending on your time and interest. We can work with your schedule to find the best fit.
We offer learners a continually growing library of resources for just-in-time learning. Guides are text-based, written content. You can find examples here: www.pluralsight.com/guides/introduction-to-guides.
We have a team ready to help you through each step of the authoring process.
Author Community Managers guide you through your audition and will help you stay engaged during your time as an author.
Project Coordinators are your go-to resource as you create content.
Content Producers help during production and editing.
Peer reviewers—who are fellow Authors and experts—review your content for technical accuracy.