Director of Academic Excellence, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $400,000/year USD

About This Role

You've set a transformative academic direction and taken ownership of the results. You've guided from the forefront, not remained backstage. When it comes to the science of learning, you've moved beyond exploration—you've created measurable systems, generated evidence of their effectiveness, and secured the credibility to present that work publicly. If this describes your experience, 2 Hour Learning seeks its academic compass.

At 2 Hour Learning, we've developed an approach that enables students to learn at twice the rate in only two hours per day. This is powered by AI-driven tutoring, mastery-oriented advancement, and a fundamental shift away from traditional classroom design. The outcomes speak for themselves. We now need a leader capable of harmonizing implementation across varied school frameworks, elevating academic leadership standards, and serving as the public advocate for a movement rooted in evidence-based learning science.

This role is not about theoretical scholarship. It is a leadership imperative. You will own the practical academic strategy, establish precise benchmarks, surface implementation shortfalls, and mentor elite teams toward tangible results. You will convert our scientific underpinnings into operational rigor and champion this model on a global stage.

What You Will Be Doing

• Designing academic structures that convert learning science into actionable direction for curriculum development, engagement systems, and application architecture.
• Conducting academic performance reviews with Heads of Academics to ensure school teams maintain alignment, responsibility, and measurable progress.
• Integrating data analysis, stakeholder conversations, and direct observation into comprehensive academic ecosystem assessments that identify the most impactful obstacles to accelerated learning and recommend concrete solutions.
• Ensuring strategic coherence through structured planning, continuous feedback, and milestone monitoring to preserve focus on student learning objectives.
• Serving as the face of 2 Hour Learning in premier forums—from keynote presentations to engagements with national Ministries of Education—to influence global perspectives on education.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Engaging in fragmented curriculum initiatives that lack system-wide impact.
• Producing theoretical research disconnected from student outcomes or operational implementation.
• Transferring accountability for performance to mid-level managers or external advisors.
• Depending on institutional prestige or conceptual frameworks to win over critical audiences.

Director Of Academic Excellence Key Responsibilities Expand and refine 2 Hour Learning's validated academic model by coordinating execution across school sites, raising leadership expectations, and emerging as the authoritative voice of a movement anchored in evidence-based science and demonstrable 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-AE-Dubai-DirectorofAcad.026