Associate Vice President - Curriculum

Job description

Masai is looking for an **AVP Curriculum and Pedagogy** to lead curriculum strategy, pedagogy, academic quality, and learning effectiveness across programs. The role will focus on building industry-relevant, outcome-driven curriculum while ensuring strong learner engagement, academic rigor, and alignment with institute partners and hiring market needs. **Key Responsibilities** - Own the curriculum roadmap across programs, ensuring alignment with learner outcomes, industry expectations, and institute partner requirements. - Lead the design and improvement of curriculum structures, learning paths, modules, projects, assessments, and capstone experiences. - Strengthen pedagogy across live classes, project-based learning, practice, assessments, feedback loops, and academic interventions. - Partner with institute partners, universities, and academic stakeholders to co-create, review, and improve curriculum for joint programs. - Set academic quality standards for content, assessments, grading rubrics, learner progression, and delivery consistency. - Use learner performance data, feedback, placement insights, and partner inputs to continuously improve curriculum and learning outcomes. - Work closely with Product, Business, Operations, Placements, Data, and Leadership teams to support program success and new launches. - Lead and mentor curriculum designers, instructional designers, academic leads, SMEs, and pedagogy teams. - Create scalable systems for curriculum creation, reviews, versioning, quality checks, and continuous improvement. **Must Have** - 10+ years of experience in curriculum design, pedagogy, instructional design, academic leadership, or education program management. - Strong experience building outcome-driven curriculum for adult learners, higher education, skilling, edtech, or professional learning programs. - Experience working with institute partners, universities, or external academic stakeholders. - Strong understanding of instructional design, assessment design, learner engagement, academic quality, and learning effectiveness. - Experience leading curriculum, pedagogy, instructional design, or academic teams. - Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-ownership, ambiguous environment. **Nice to Have** - Experience in tech education, coding bootcamps, data programs, business programs, or employability-focused education. - Exposure to AI-enabled learning, LMS platforms, learning analytics, or adaptive learning. - Experience working with hiring partners, industry experts, or employer-facing teams. - Prior experience in a startup or high-growth education business. **What Does a Great Candidate Look Like** A great candidate combines academic depth with strong execution. They can design scalable curriculum, improve pedagogy through data and feedback, partner effectively with institutes and internal teams, and build high-performing academic teams that deliver strong learner outcomes. **Location** Bengaluru, HSR Layout **Working Model** Work from office