Director of Academic Excellence, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $400,000/year USD
About the role
You have previously articulated a clear academic vision and taken full ownership of the results. Your leadership has been visible and direct, not confined to planning rooms. When it comes to the science of learning, your involvement has been substantive—you have created something tangible, produced measurable outcomes that validate the approach, and established the credibility to present that work publicly. If this describes your experience, 2 Hour Learning seeks its central figure in academic leadership.
2 Hour Learning operates on a model in which students achieve learning gains at twice the typical rate within a two-hour daily window. This is made possible through AI-based tutoring, mastery-oriented progression, and a significant redesign of traditional classroom structures. The outcomes have been robust. We now require a leader capable of aligning execution across varied school environments, elevating the standard of academic leadership, and representing a movement rooted in evidence-based learning science to external audiences.
This position is not centered on theoretical exploration. It is a leadership imperative. You will be accountable for academic strategy in its applied form, establish explicit performance standards, diagnose breakdowns in execution, and develop high-performing teams to produce tangible results. You will convert our scientific underpinnings into operational rigor and advocate for this model on a global stage.
What You Will Be Doing
Developing academic frameworks that convert learning science into actionable direction for curriculum design, student motivation systems, and application interfaces. Overseeing academic execution reviews with Heads of Academics to confirm that school teams maintain alignment, accountability, and performance. Integrating findings from data analysis, stakeholder interviews, and direct observation into comprehensive academic ecosystem evaluations that identify the most critical obstacles to accelerated learning and recommend concrete solutions. Ensuring strategic coherence through structured planning, continuous feedback mechanisms, and progress tracking focused on student learning objectives. Serving as the principal representative of 2 Hour Learning in high-profile settings, including keynote presentations and meetings with Ministries of Education, to influence global perspectives on education.
What You Won’t Be Doing
Engaging in limited curriculum initiatives that do not produce broader systemic impact. Producing theoretical research disconnected from measurable student outcomes or operational implementation. Transferring responsibility for performance management to mid-level staff or external advisors. Depending on institutional prestige or conceptual arguments to convince resistant audiences.
Director Of Academic Excellence Key Responsibilities
Expand and refine 2 Hour Learning's validated academic model by coordinating execution across multiple schools, raising leadership performance standards, and serving as the authoritative public advocate for a movement founded on rigorous scientific principles 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-CA-COUNTRY-DirectorofAcad.014
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About Crossover
Crossover is a global recruitment company, founded in 2014. We're the world's largest recruiter that specializes in elite full-time remote jobs, hiring the top 1% of tech talent from every corner of the planet.
We find awesome talent in overlooked places, by posting jobs all over the world, and giving everyone an equal opportunity to prove their skills are world-class. Our system of AI-powered assessments is based on objective factors that are scientifically proven to predict high performance (e.g. cognitive aptitude).
𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒: 🧑 Reviews from people we've hired: crossover.com/reviews 💼 Current openings: crossover.com/jobs 💎 Hire someone for your company: crossover.com/hire ♟️ How the process works: crossover.com/selection-process ❓ FAQs: crossover.com/help
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆: Crossover jobs are are fully compliant with LinkedIn's policies, as well as the applicable laws in every country where we advertise.
Allow us to clarify some common misconceptions:
1) The reason we post so many job ads is because LinkedIn organizes all job postings by location. So, the only way to reach candidates all over the world is to post multiple ads in every city you want to hire from. Most recruiters don't bother because it's too time consuming... but we're not most recruiters.
2) We mostly recruit independent contractors, not employees, because labor laws vary so much from one country to another that it's near-impossible to recruit globally otherwise (which is why it's still uncommon even though most jobs can now be done remotely).
3) As is standard for any self-employed person, the stated pay is the entire compensation package. Because they are not employees, each contractor is responsible for handling the things that an employer would take care of e.g. taxes, equipment, vacation time, health insurance. One of the major reasons that Crossover jobs pay so much more than local jobs is to overcompensate for these costs.
It's hard, but it's worth it!
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Director of Academic Excellence, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - $400,000/year USD
About the role
You have previously articulated a clear academic vision and taken full ownership of the results. Your leadership has been visible and direct, not confined to planning rooms. When it comes to the science of learning, your involvement has been substantive—you have created something tangible, produced measurable outcomes that validate the approach, and established the credibility to present that work publicly. If this describes your experience, 2 Hour Learning seeks its central figure in academic leadership.
2 Hour Learning operates on a model in which students achieve learning gains at twice the typical rate within a two-hour daily window. This is made possible through AI-based tutoring, mastery-oriented progression, and a significant redesign of traditional classroom structures. The outcomes have been robust. We now require a leader capable of aligning execution across varied school environments, elevating the standard of academic leadership, and representing a movement rooted in evidence-based learning science to external audiences.
This position is not centered on theoretical exploration. It is a leadership imperative. You will be accountable for academic strategy in its applied form, establish explicit performance standards, diagnose breakdowns in execution, and develop high-performing teams to produce tangible results. You will convert our scientific underpinnings into operational rigor and advocate for this model on a global stage.
What You Will Be Doing
Developing academic frameworks that convert learning science into actionable direction for curriculum design, student motivation systems, and application interfaces. Overseeing academic execution reviews with Heads of Academics to confirm that school teams maintain alignment, accountability, and performance. Integrating findings from data analysis, stakeholder interviews, and direct observation into comprehensive academic ecosystem evaluations that identify the most critical obstacles to accelerated learning and recommend concrete solutions. Ensuring strategic coherence through structured planning, continuous feedback mechanisms, and progress tracking focused on student learning objectives. Serving as the principal representative of 2 Hour Learning in high-profile settings, including keynote presentations and meetings with Ministries of Education, to influence global perspectives on education.
What You Won’t Be Doing
Engaging in limited curriculum initiatives that do not produce broader systemic impact. Producing theoretical research disconnected from measurable student outcomes or operational implementation. Transferring responsibility for performance management to mid-level staff or external advisors. Depending on institutional prestige or conceptual arguments to convince resistant audiences.
Director Of Academic Excellence Key Responsibilities
Expand and refine 2 Hour Learning's validated academic model by coordinating execution across multiple schools, raising leadership performance standards, and serving as the authoritative public advocate for a movement founded on rigorous scientific principles 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-CA-COUNTRY-DirectorofAcad.014
Not the right fit? Search for Academic Excellence, 2 Hour Learning - $400,000/year USD jobs in Canada
About Crossover
Crossover is a global recruitment company, founded in 2014. We're the world's largest recruiter that specializes in elite full-time remote jobs, hiring the top 1% of tech talent from every corner of the planet.
We find awesome talent in overlooked places, by posting jobs all over the world, and giving everyone an equal opportunity to prove their skills are world-class. Our system of AI-powered assessments is based on objective factors that are scientifically proven to predict high performance (e.g. cognitive aptitude).
𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒: 🧑 Reviews from people we've hired: crossover.com/reviews 💼 Current openings: crossover.com/jobs 💎 Hire someone for your company: crossover.com/hire ♟️ How the process works: crossover.com/selection-process ❓ FAQs: crossover.com/help
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆: Crossover jobs are are fully compliant with LinkedIn's policies, as well as the applicable laws in every country where we advertise.
Allow us to clarify some common misconceptions:
1) The reason we post so many job ads is because LinkedIn organizes all job postings by location. So, the only way to reach candidates all over the world is to post multiple ads in every city you want to hire from. Most recruiters don't bother because it's too time consuming... but we're not most recruiters.
2) We mostly recruit independent contractors, not employees, because labor laws vary so much from one country to another that it's near-impossible to recruit globally otherwise (which is why it's still uncommon even though most jobs can now be done remotely).
3) As is standard for any self-employed person, the stated pay is the entire compensation package. Because they are not employees, each contractor is responsible for handling the things that an employer would take care of e.g. taxes, equipment, vacation time, health insurance. One of the major reasons that Crossover jobs pay so much more than local jobs is to overcompensate for these costs.
It's hard, but it's worth it!