AquinTutor
/Founding leadership
Chief Learning Officer — AquinTutor
Learning Science & Curriculum Strategy
Compensation
INR 60 LPA - 1 Cr base
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. This is an on-site role at Kolkata. It is not remote and not hybrid.
Scope of role
Build the function from zero. Set the strategy. Own the outcome.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
AquinTutor is EduRankAI's flagship learner-facing product. The Chief Learning Officer owns whether the learning that happens inside it is real — measurable, transferable, generalisable — or just engagement theatre. You will set the pedagogical framework, defend the assessment design against shortcuts, hire the curriculum and learning-science org, and own the public claims we make about learner outcomes. The CLO is also the person who pushes back hardest when product or growth wants to dilute rigour for retention. You'll thrive here if: you have spent a career arguing for honesty in learning measurement, you can hold a research view and a product view in the same conversation, and you would rather ship one thing that works than ten that look like they do. You'll struggle here if: you measure learning by minutes engaged, not skill transferred.
02 — The work
What you will own
- 01 Own AquinTutor's pedagogical framework across every subject and every age band we serve.
- 02 Set the assessment design and the bar for what counts as evidence of learning.
- 03 Hire Director-level curriculum and learning-science leadership.
- 04 Defend AquinTutor's public outcome claims with audit-grade rigour.
- 05 Set the AI-tutor pedagogy doctrine in partnership with the AI platform team.
- 06 Represent AquinTutor publicly with educators, regulators, and the research community.
03 — The expertise
What we look for
04 — The bar
Who thrives here
- → You have led a curriculum or learning-science org for at least 5 years.
- → You have authored a public outcomes study that was scrutinised by independent researchers and survived.
- → You can defend a pedagogical doctrine against a hostile regulator for an hour.
- → You have shipped at least one learning product that produced measurable transfer to a real-world task.
- → You have an opinion about why most ed-tech learning claims are dishonest, and a position on what to do about it.
Terms of Engagement
How working time works at this level
No fixed daily or weekly hours. The office carries accountability for its remit, the availability that remit requires, and at least one full day of rest each week that you are expected to actually take.
Type
C-Level
Rest days
1 per week
Hours counted
No
Basis
Outcome and accountability
Measured by
The remit of the office, reviewed on the cycle agreed with the founder and the board. There is no attendance component and no hour count.
Where this stands legally
A role of this kind occupies a position of management. The working-hours provisions of the state Shops and Establishments Acts do not apply to persons in positions of management or in a confidential capacity, and under the labour codes such a role sits outside the definition of a worker. Stating a fixed hour count here would be neither accurate nor enforceable.
The full per-level model is published at Working Hours by Level.
05 — Hiring process
What to expect after you apply
- 01
Application review
Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.
- 02
Take-home or live exercise
Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.
- 03
Conversations
Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.
- 04
Offer or honest no
If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.
Before you start
What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.
We will collect
- Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
- Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
- Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
- Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
- Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.
We will never
- Sell your data
- Share with third-party recruiters
- Use for advertising
- Train models on it
- Send marketing email
Our situation
EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. Applying is free, and every application is read by a human — recruitment, technical, academic and leadership teams. It buys us the right to be honest.
Ready to apply?
We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.
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