Director of Curriculum & Learning

Location: Bangalore
Department: Curriculum
Reporting to: Co-founder & CEO
Experience: 10-14 years preferred
Role type: Full-time

Codingal (www.codingal.com) is the global leader in online coding and AI education for kids and teens. We offer live, interactive classes led by expert Computer Science instructors, empowering students to build apps, games, websites, and AI-powered projects.

Our mission is to inspire school students to fall in love with coding and build real-world technology skills for the future. With a curriculum accredited by STEM.org and aligned with the K-12 Computer Science Framework, we offer personalized learning through 1:1 and small-group classes. We are now expanding our learning offerings across Coding, Math, and ELA, and are looking for a strong curriculum leader to drive quality, consistency, and execution across these subjects.

As AI reshapes the world, Codingal integrates real-world AI tools like ChatGPT, machine learning, and data science into the learning journey, helping kids not just use AI - but build with it.

Trusted by over 1 million registered students worldwide and backed by Y Combinator, Rebright Partners, and top angels, Codingal is rated 4.9/5 by students and has an NPS of 86, making it the most loved platform for coding and AI education.

We are looking for a hands-on Director - Curriculum & Learning to lead Codingal’s curriculum roadmap and execution across Coding, Math, and ELA.

This person will directly lead the current curriculum team, work with freelancers and subject matter experts, and ensure that every course delivers a high-quality learning experience for students, teachers, and parents.

This is not a strategy-only role. We are looking for someone who can manage the team, review curriculum quality deeply, drive execution, build processes, improve teacher readiness, and connect curriculum outcomes to student engagement, renewals, and long-term learning impact.

• Define and manage the curriculum roadmap across Coding, Math, and ELA.

• Prioritize new course creation, course upgrades, project refreshes, assessments, teacher guides, and parent-facing learning outcomes.

• Ensure that every course has clear learning objectives, structured progression, engaging projects, and measurable outcomes.

• Build a strong quarterly and monthly execution plan for the curriculum team.

• Balance long-term curriculum innovation with immediate business and operational priorities.

• Directly manage the internal curriculum team across Coding, Math, and ELA.

• Set clear goals, ownership areas, timelines, and quality expectations for each team member.

• Review weekly progress and ensure timely delivery of curriculum projects.

• Manage freelancers, contractors, and subject matter experts working with the curriculum team.

• Build a strong culture of ownership, speed, quality, and accountability within the team.

• Set high standards for lesson design, project quality, assessments, homework, rubrics, quizzes, and student practice.

• Ensure that curriculum is age-appropriate, engaging, and outcome-driven across different student levels.

• Create quality review systems to ensure consistency across all subjects and courses.

• Use student performance, teacher feedback, parent feedback, class recordings, and renewal data to identify curriculum gaps.

• Continuously improve courses based on real classroom insights and student learning outcomes.

• Oversee teacher training and curriculum delivery standards across all subjects.

• Create and improve teacher guides, lesson notes, demo flows, project explanation guides, and common doubt-handling material.

• Work closely with teacher operations and academic teams to ensure teachers can deliver the curriculum effectively.

• Set up clear standards and rubrics for teacher hiring, teacher certification, and teacher evaluation across different levels.

• Ensure that teacher delivery remains consistent, engaging, and aligned with Codingal’s learning philosophy.

• Integrate AI meaningfully into Codingal’s curriculum across Coding, Math, and ELA.

• Identify opportunities to use AI for student practice, personalized feedback, teacher support, assessments, and internal curriculum development.

• Ensure that Codingal’s curriculum stays relevant with the future of coding, AI, and digital learning.

• Work with product and engineering teams to bring curriculum ideas into the learning platform, student dashboard, teacher tools, and parent-facing progress reports.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Teacher Operations, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing teams.

• Help define how curriculum improvements can improve student engagement, parent confidence, referrals, renewals, and repeat revenue.

• Support Sales and Customer Success teams with clear course outcomes, parent communication points, demos, and learning progression narratives.

• Use business and learning data to prioritize curriculum improvements that create the highest impact.

• Create scalable systems for curriculum planning, review, versioning, QA, teacher enablement, and launch readiness.

• Ensure every curriculum launch has proper lesson plans, teacher notes, assessments, project files, and training material.

• Build a structured feedback loop from teachers, students, parents, and internal teams.

• Improve documentation and operating rhythm so the curriculum function can scale beyond individual contributors.

• 10-14 years of experience in curriculum design, instructional design, learning experience, academics, or edtech.

• Strong experience in K-12 education, preferably in an online learning or edtech environment.

• Experience managing curriculum teams, content teams, academic teams, or instructional design teams.

• Ability to lead a team of 8-15 people, including full-time team members, freelancers, and contractors.

• Strong understanding of at least two of these areas: Coding, Math, ELA, AI education, STEM learning, or communication skills.

• Strong eye for curriculum quality, student engagement, difficulty progression, and learning outcomes.

• Ability to work hands-on and review actual lessons, projects, assessments, teacher guides, and learning material.

• Strong project management skills with ability to drive execution across multiple subjects.

• Comfort working directly with founders and cross-functional teams in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Strong communication skills and ability to simplify learning outcomes for students, parents, teachers, and internal teams.

• Experience building coding, AI, STEM, math, or communication curriculum for kids and teens.

• Experience with live online classes and teacher-led learning models.

• Experience creating teacher training programs, certification rubrics, or instructional quality frameworks.

• Experience working with product and engineering teams to build learning platforms or student-facing learning experiences.

• Familiarity with AI tools for curriculum creation, teacher support, student practice, or personalized learning.

• Experience in scaling curriculum across multiple subjects or geographies.

• 25% curriculum roadmap and prioritization.

• 25% team management and execution tracking.

• 20% curriculum quality review and learning outcomes.

• 15% teacher training, delivery quality, and teacher evaluation standards.

• 15% product, AI, data, retention, and cross-functional initiatives.

In the first 3-6 months, success in this role would mean:

• A clear curriculum roadmap exists across Coding, Math, and ELA.

• The curriculum team has sharper ownership, better planning, and stronger execution discipline.

• Course quality, lesson structure, projects, assessments, and teacher guides improve meaningfully.

• Teacher training and delivery standards become more consistent across subjects.

• Curriculum feedback loops from teachers, students, parents, and business teams become systematic.

• Curriculum improvements start contributing to better student engagement, parent confidence, and repeat revenue.

• Codingal has a stronger foundation for AI-first learning across its courses.

• Lead curriculum and learning across Coding, Math, and ELA at a growing edtech company.

• Work directly with the founder and leadership team on high-impact learning initiatives.

• Manage and shape a full curriculum team with ownership across multiple subjects.

• Build learning experiences used by students, teachers, and parents across multiple countries.

• Play a key role in defining the next phase of Codingal’s learning quality, AI curriculum, and student outcomes.