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Academic Curriculum and Content Development Manager
Remote (India) | Full-time
Also searched as: Content Development Manager, Academic Content Manager, Curriculum Manager, Curriculum Team Lead, International Curriculum Manager, Content Manager (IB / IGCSE / A-Level)
Could you run Contour's India content team across every subject, holding its work to an Australian exam standard without needing to be the expert in each one?
On a typical day you might catch a QA flag on a question set before it ships in the morning, review an AI step that drafts question variants with your Curriculum Designer after lunch, and close the afternoon agreeing with an academic owner in Melbourne what a study-design change means for next week's content.
About Contour
We operate across three brands. The India team, which falls under the Global Enablement and Support pillar, is the global capability centre (GCC) Contour is building: it runs delivery, automation, people, and operations for the whole organisation.
The Kind of People Who Thrive Here
Contour started in 2020 as one classroom in a university library. In 2022 three full-time team members ran the business on Monday.com. Today we are about 600 people across Australia and India, and much of what we run was built by someone who noticed it was missing.
The work matters. More than 10,000 students rely on what we build, from the booklets they study from to the systems their families pay through. The people who do well here care about that and want to know their work made a difference to those students.
They own their work end to end, start things without being asked, and finish what they commit to. They tell the truth early, including when something is off and what they have already tried, and write decisions down so the next person can pick them up. They give direct feedback and ask for it back.
The pace is fast. Small problems are fixed the same week, bigger ones within the six-week cycle, and whoever spots the problem usually gets to lead the fix. We keep refining how we work, and you are expected to improve the processes you own.
We hire on what you have built and run yourself, and growth works the same way. Time with us counts, but scope, title and pay move with what you deliver and how much you raise the bar on what you own.
The GCC is being built now, seat by seat. This one decides how well Contour's content holds up as it grows.
About This Role
You lead Contour's India content team: the curriculum designers, content developers, question writers and markers who build what students learn from, across the Victorian (VCE), Queensland (QCE) and, from 2027, New South Wales (HSC) curricula.
Your team's work is set and signed off in Australia. The academic owners, Heads of Subject and curriculum leads, set the standard for each subject and approve what ships, and onshore curriculum leads write content too, so yours has to fit alongside theirs. The Production lead is your peer: their team designs, formats and publishes finished assets from what yours writes. Everything else is yours: the people, the workflow, and the systems that get each item there.
This is international work. Contour's students sit Australian exams, their study designs are set by Australian authorities, and the people who judge your team's output are Australian teachers and students. You need to have built content for a curriculum outside India and worked closely with academic owners in another country, so you know how an overseas exam board thinks about rigour, wording and marking.
Two things separate a strong hire here from a competent one. First, you run quality as a system. You are not expected to be an expert in every curriculum: you turn what the academic owners mean by good into checks and measures that get every specialist there consistently, so drafts don't need rewriting at the end. Second, you protect quality at speed. With a turnaround of under a week, when something is at risk you make the call early on the information you have.
We are looking for someone tech-forward. Contour runs on tools, and the India team has its own automation and Internal Product teams to build with. The strongest candidates have already used AI and automation to make a content team do more with the same people: AI drafting first versions and question variants, automated checks catching errors before a reviewer sees them, and items tagged and tracked without manual effort. You spot where a tool can take work off the team, set it up with the people who use it, and make sure quality holds.
You build on the content team already in place: Curriculum Designers, Content Developers, and the Question Writers and Markers, who write practice items and grade learners' work, all report to you. We want a player-coach who leads by example. You have enough hands-on curriculum and content experience to coach your leads and specialists, judge quality, challenge estimates and step in when needed; subject specialists hold deep expertise in their subjects. The seat may later take in UCAT (the medical-school entry test) and selective-entry school exams. Contour is scaling and hires for the long term: the scope of this seat grows with the platform, and what you deliver decides how fast.
Much of what Contour students study from passes through this team, so a gap that slips past review reaches a learner. Get the system right, and each new subject or exam builds on it.
What You Will Do
- Turn the academic bar into a working system: Establish what good looks like subject by subject, against each study design, then build the checklists, KPIs and review points that keep output there.
- Run the create-and-QA cycle: Track output on a dashboard you build, so no discipline falls behind the teaching calendar, and step in ahead of any slip.
- Keep up with study-design changes: When VCAA, QCAA or NESA update a study design or exam format, map what changes, plan the rework and land it before the term that needs it.
- Mark on schedule: Return marked assignments within the turnaround promised to learners, and run calibration sessions so feedback reads the same whoever marked it.
- Keep the academic owners close: When their expectations change, agree what that means before writing starts, and brief the whole group the same week, across the India–Australia time difference.
- Supercharge the team with AI and automation: AI-drafted question variants, automated answer and formatting checks, tagging every item to its syllabus point, with tracking in Notion or Monday, and keep finding the next manual step to remove. Specialists keep the final call on every item.
- Coach directly: Run structured 1:1s and performance conversations with every designer, developer, writer and marker, and make sure everyone knows why their work matters.
- Decide how the function grows: When Contour adds a subject, a format or volume, choose which lever to pull, hire where the answer is headcount, and prepare what it needs in advance.
- Fix the cycle where it breaks: Find where creation or checking loses time or lets errors through, including errors found after release, and fix the cause in the process rather than in one draft.
- Report what is shipping: Keep throughput, pass rates and rework visible, so the VP of Global Enablement and Support and the academic owners can see where content stands without asking.
If a better tool exists for something we are doing manually, make the case and we will back it.
Requirements
What You Need
We weigh what you have built and run more than the years on your CV. You should be able to point to:
- International exposure (essential): content you built or led for a curriculum outside India, such as Australian (VCE, QCE, HSC), IB, Cambridge IGCSE or A-levels, AP or SAT, and regular work with academic owners, clients or examiners in another country.
- Tech-forward, AI-first habits (essential): a content or QA step you moved onto AI or automation, such as drafting, checking, tagging or tracking, and what it did for the team's speed and quality.
- A content or curriculum department you led, spanning subjects beyond your specialism and held to a bar someone else set.
- A production schedule you ran from brief to release, where deadlines held without corners cut.
- A tracker that made a standard visible: a checklist, a KPI, a dashboard or a review step others still use.
- A content function you grew into a new syllabus, a new format or a larger group, and what you put in place first.
- Performance conversations you led, including one that changed how someone worked.
- Writers who stepped up to bigger roles under you, and how you helped them.
- Hands-on experience in academic content, content development or publishing before you managed it, so you know how a question set or unit actually gets made.
- Excellent written English and clear, confident communication with academic owners in Australia.
If you have delivered these, or can show us how you would here, apply. If you enjoy hands-on work, this seat will suit you; if your recent years have mostly been signing off other people's work, it may feel small.
Nice to Have
- Australian curriculum experience (VCE, QCE or HSC) in particular.
- EdTech or education services background.
- Curriculum design, instructional design or assessment design experience.
- Experience with automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n or Apps Script), or building custom GPTs or AI workflows for a team.
What Good Looks Like
- The cycle holds: output stays on schedule at any volume, with QA never squeezed.
- Gaps caught early: QA finds the problem before it reaches final sign-off.
- Marking that agrees: two markers give the same piece of work the same grade and similar feedback.
- Changes land on time: a study-design update is reflected in Contour's content before the term that needs it.
- A team that does more with AI: the share of drafting, checking and tagging handled by AI and automation rises each term, with quality held.
Benefits
Fully remote, anywhere in India, and comfortable working across the India and Australia time difference. Compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the role and your experience; we discuss it openly early in the process.
Ready to run the content Contour's students learn from? Apply.
