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You've owned a transformational academic vision and delivered measurable results. You've led teams with clarity and accountability, not from the margins. Your work in learning science is grounded in execution—you've created systems that demonstrably accelerate student learning and can articulate the evidence behind them. 2 Hour Learning is seeking a leader to serve as its academic compass.<br><br>Our model enables students to achieve twice the learning progress in two hours per day. Mastery-based progression, AI-driven tutoring, and a structural break from traditional classrooms underpin this performance. The outcomes speak for themselves. We now need a leader who can align execution across varied school implementations, elevate academic leadership quality, and represent this approach as its public advocate—anchored in learning science rigor.<br><br>This is a leadership position, not a theoretical exercise. You will be accountable for academic strategy in action, establish performance standards, diagnose execution shortfalls, and develop high-performing teams to achieve concrete results. You will connect our scientific underpinnings to operational excellence and champion this model to external audiences.<br><br><strong>What You Will Be Doing<br><br></strong><ul><li>Designing academic frameworks that operationalize learning science principles into actionable direction for curriculum development, motivational architecture, and application design.</li><li>Conducting academic execution reviews with Heads of Academics to ensure school-level teams maintain alignment, accountability, and measurable performance.</li><li>Analyzing data, stakeholder interviews, and direct observation to produce academic ecosystem assessments that identify critical bottlenecks to accelerated learning and recommend targeted solutions.</li><li>Establishing strategic coherence through planning cycles, feedback mechanisms, and milestone oversight to sustain focus on student learning objectives.</li><li>Serving as the principal representative of 2 Hour Learning in high-profile contexts, including keynote presentations and engagements with Ministries of Education, to influence global perspectives on education systems.<br><br></li></ul><strong>What You Won’t Be Doing<br><br></strong><ul><li>Working on disconnected curriculum initiatives that fail to create systemic impact.</li><li>Producing theoretical research disconnected from student outcomes or operational implementation.</li><li>Transferring accountability for team performance to mid-level managers or external advisors.</li><li>Depending on institutional credibility or conceptual arguments to win over skeptical audiences.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Director Of Learning Strategy Key Responsibilities<br><br></strong>Expand and strengthen the validated academic model of 2 Hour Learning by aligning execution across multiple school environments, raising leadership performance expectations, and serving as the authoritative public representative of a movement rooted in evidence-based learning science and demonstrated outcomes.<br><br><strong>Basic Requirements<br><br></strong><ul><li>Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D) in Learning Science, Educational Psychology, Instructional Design, or a related field</li><li>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</li><li>Experience driving learning outcomes for students and upholding student performance standards</li><li>Experience applying AI or emerging technologies to improve education, such as through personalized learning, adaptive learning, AI agents, etc.</li><li>Experience managing academic teams of 50+ people (e.g., the teams you managed directly executed curriculum, instruction, or assessment)</li><li>Experience interacting directly with students, teachers, or school leaders in a professional setting<br><br></li></ul><strong>About 2 Hour Learning<br><br></strong>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.<br><br><strong>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. <br><br></strong>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.<br><br><strong>2 Hour Learning is reprogramming learning for the AI era.<br><br></strong><strong>Here’s How They’re Fixing It.<br><br></strong>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!<br><br><strong>Working with us<br><br></strong>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.<br><br>Crossover Job Code: LJ-5595-CA-Toronto-DirectorofLear<br><br>
