Overview
Director of Academics, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) – $400,000/year USD Jobs in South Africa at Crossover
Title: Director of Academics, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) – $400,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: South Africa
You have already shaped a transformative academic vision and taken full ownership of its impact. Your leadership style is direct and visible, never hidden. When it comes to the science of learning, you're beyond experimentation—you have created proven systems, generated measurable success, and gained the credibility to present your work on the largest platforms. If this describes your track record, 2 Hour Learning seeks a leader to serve as its academic compass.
2 Hour Learning has developed a learning framework in which students achieve mastery at twice the conventional pace, dedicating only two hours per day. This outcome is powered by AI-driven tutoring, mastery-based progression, and a fundamental rethinking of traditional classroom design. The results speak for themselves. Our next step is to bring on a leader who can align execution across varied educational models, elevate our academic standards, and champion this science-backed movement on the global stage.
This is a leadership position, not one rooted in abstract theory. You will take ownership of the academic strategy in action, establish rigorous standards, surface execution challenges, and mentor high-performing teams to achieve tangible results. Your role will be to transform our scientific principles into operational excellence and advocate convincingly for this model worldwide.
What You Will Be Doing
- Developing academic frameworks that convert principles of learning science into actionable directives for curriculum design, motivational structures, and application development.
- Conducting academic execution reviews with Heads of Academics to ensure school teams maintain alignment, accountability, and consistent delivery of outcomes.
- Integrating insights from data, stakeholder interviews, and direct observation into comprehensive academic ecosystem assessments that identify the most impactful obstacles to accelerated learning and recommend targeted solutions.
- Ensuring strategic cohesion through structured planning, continuous feedback mechanisms, and milestone monitoring to sustain focus on learner achievement objectives.
- Serving as the principal representative of 2 Hour Learning in high-profile forums, including keynote presentations and engagements with Ministries of Education, to advance systemic transformation in global education paradigms.
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Engaging in fragmented curriculum initiatives that fail to create system-wide impact.
- Producing theoretical research disconnected from measurable student outcomes or operational execution.
- Transferring accountability for performance to intermediate management layers or external consultants.
- Depending on institutional prestige or conceptual arguments to convince doubtful audiences.
Director Of Academics Key Responsibilities
Expand and refine 2 Hour Learning's validated academic model by aligning execution across multiple schools, raising leadership expectations, and serving as the authoritative public advocate for a movement built on rigorous learning science and demonstrated impact.
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-ZA-COUNTRY-DirectorofAcad1.008