Director Of Academic Excellence 2 Hour Learning Remote - 400 000 Year USD

You've articulated a transformative academic vision and taken full ownership of its results. You've led from the forefront, not from the margins. When it comes to the science of learning, you're not experimenting—you've built proven systems, delivered measurable impact, and established the credibility to represent that work publicly. If this describes your track record, 2 Hour Learning is seeking its chief academic architect.

At 2 Hour Learning, we've developed an instructional model enabling students to learn at twice the rate in only two hours per day. AI-driven tutoring, mastery-oriented progression, and a fundamental rethinking of traditional classroom design produce these results. The outcomes speak for themselves. We now need a leader who can harmonize execution across varied school environments, elevate academic leadership standards, and serve as the authoritative voice for a movement rooted in evidence-based learning science.

This is not a position for academic theorizing. It's an executive accountability role. You'll direct academic strategy in action, establish explicit performance standards, diagnose implementation shortfalls, and mentor high-caliber teams to achieve tangible results. You'll convert our scientific underpinnings into operational rigor and advocate for this model on a global scale.

What You Will Be Doing

• Designing academic structures that transform learning science into actionable direction for curriculum development, student motivation frameworks, and application architecture.
• Conducting academic performance reviews with Heads of Academics to ensure school teams remain aligned, accountable, and outcome-focused.
• Integrating data analysis, stakeholder interviews, and field observation into comprehensive academic ecosystem assessments that identify the most critical obstacles to accelerated learning and recommend concrete interventions.
• Ensuring strategic coherence through planning cycles, feedback mechanisms, and progress monitoring to sustain focus on student learning objectives.
• Serving as 2 Hour Learning's principal representative at senior forums, including keynote platforms and engagements with Ministries of Education, to influence systemic transformation in global education paradigms.
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Engaging in isolated curriculum initiatives that lack systemic impact.
• Producing theoretical research disconnected from measurable student outcomes or operational execution.
• Transferring accountability for performance to mid-level managers or external consultants.
• Depending on institutional prestige or conceptual frameworks to convince critical stakeholders.
  
  

Director Of Academic Excellence Key Responsibilities

Expand and refine 2 Hour Learning's validated academic model by harmonizing execution across school sites, elevating leadership standards, and establishing yourself as the authoritative public advocate for a movement anchored in rigorous science and demonstrated outcomes.

Basic Requirements

• Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D) in Learning Science, Educational Psychology, Instructional Design, or a related field
• At least 7 years in academic or EdTech leadership roles, leading a team of staff/employees (not an informal peer leader role, such as grade-level lead); you must have been responsible for hiring, monitoring performance, coaching, and making termination decisions
• Experience driving learning outcomes for students and upholding student performance standards
• Experience applying AI or emerging technologies to improve education, such as through personalized learning, adaptive learning, AI agents, etc.
• Experience managing academic teams of 50+ people (e.g., the teams you managed directly executed curriculum, instruction, or assessment)
• Experience interacting directly with students, teachers, or school leaders in a professional setting
  
  

About 2 Hour Learning

Education is broken, but 2 Hour Learning is proving it doesn’t have to be. They’re tearing down the outdated one-size-fits-all model and replacing it with AI-driven personalized learning that helps kids master academics in just two hours a day.

With students consistently ranking in the top 1-2% nationally and the top 20% achieving an astonishing 6.5x growth, they’re proving that smarter learning is possible. At 2 Hour Learning, it’s talent and performance that matter.

They offer a dynamic, on-campus and remote-friendly environment where innovators, educators, and AI specialists can be a part of fixing a broken school system.

2 Hour Learning is reprogramming learning for the AI era.

Here’s How They’re Fixing It.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5595-PH-COUNTRY-DirectorofAcad.006

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