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