TL Maths(Team Lead) - Subject Matter Expert
Toppr, India
Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Toppr is looking for a Team Lead in its Knowledge Team. As a Team Lead, you’ll be responsible to review and deliver high quality lessons and self-learning material in various formats such as video lectures, concept notes, assessments, tests amp; practice questions etc. You’ll play a key role in bringing innovation and creativity in approach to make learning and teaching simple.
So, if you are student-centric and driven to change the way we look at education, then we’d love to talk to you!
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN TOPPR
- Work with the best: Learn from leaders who have built Toppr from the ground up. Work with down-to-earth, highly experienced, and insanely ambitious colleagues.
- High-growth industry: India’s online education industry is an ever-expanding pie and is poised to grow to $2 billion in 3 years.
- High-growth startup: Over the last 3 years, Toppr has grown over 50x, and we aim to grab a big chunk of this ever-expanding pie.
- As the business grows, you grow: We want Toppr to be built from within. We look at you as someone with the potential to make Toppr a $10B company.
- Complete ownership: Have the freedom to design and manage a process for content development. Be responsible for understanding students’ needs and create high quality content to meet their students.
HOW YOU’LL RAMP
In First Week
- Understand Toppr’s journey, its values and mission.
- Spend time with the Knowledge, Marketing, Product, and Sales teams to get up-to-speed on Toppr’s offering, its competition, and future outlook.
By Day 30
- Define the objectives and key results (OKRs) that Toppr’s knowledge strategy must achieve.
- Coordinate with team and build the roadmap for content development.
- Guide and manage subject matter experts - on-boarding, task allocation and review of their work.
- Make decisions and develop content based on students’ feedback, understanding their learning needs.
By Day 90
- Dig deeper and pick projects that matter to Toppr and its success.
- Gain complete understanding of the product, its architecture and features.
- Define metrics and analyze data to measure engagement levels and performance of students.
- Mentor and nurture the team to move to the next level.
- PhD/Masters/Bachelors/Engineering (for Math amp; Science) in respective subjects with strong subject knowledge.
- At least 5+ years of experience in content development and 1+ year(s) in team management.
- Pedagogy expert- can explain complex concepts in simple ways.
- Excellent team amp; project management skills. Prior experience in managing teams and projects is required.
- Excellent in verbal and written communication.
- Carries entrepreneurial mindset and suitable for start-up culture
- Leader: Ability to inspire a large team and move them in a unified direction towards a common vision.
- Vision: Create a roadmap for product development and delivery
- Creative: Responsible for innovation amp; creativity to make learning simple and effective.
- Pedagogy: Use engaging methods and design effective lesson progression, which make students strong in conceptual understanding, application amp; problem solving.
- Quality Control: Review lesson scripts, storyboards (for videos) amp; final videos before publishing.
- Data Driven: Define metrics and analyze data to measure engagement levels and performance of students.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
WHO YOU ARE
To be successful in this role, you’ll need the following skills:
ABOUT TOPPR
Toppr is India’s leading ed-tech company with a mission to make learning personalized. Our adaptive after-school learning app for classes 5th to 12th is used by over 14 million students. Along with the learning app, our School Operating System (School OS) and the recently Launched Toppr Codr product, provide students with the complete in-school, after-school and co-curricular learning ecosystem. We have the widest syllabus coverage with over 20 subjects, 20 boards, and 60 exams. We believe each child is unique with distinct learning needs. We are building Toppr as an adaptive platform to increase engagement, optimize learning and improve outcomes for all students. Toppr was started in 2013 by IIT Bombay alumni Zishaan Hayath and Hemanth Goteti and is backed by venture capital firms like SAIF, Helion, Eight Roads, Kaizen and Foundation Holdings.