This is a remote position.
Academic Program Manager, India Remote, anywhere in India | Full-Time Also searched as: Academic Program Manager, Academic Project Manager, Program Manager (Education), Content Operations Manager
When an academic resource is about to slip, are you the person who catches it a week early, before it becomes a room of students sitting in a class with nothing ready to learn from?
On a typical day you might unstick a review sitting between a Head of Subject and a Resource Developer in the morning, map the sequence and deadlines for a newly opened subject stream after lunch, and flag to the Academic Operations Coordinator before end of day that a printing dependency will miss its date, with a fix already worked out.
About Contour
We started in 2020 with a handful of students and a belief that great education should not be out of reach. Today we operate across three brands with 8,000+ students and 425+ team members: roughly 100 in India and 325 onshore in Australia. The India team runs publishing, student experience, CRM and technology, operations,



and people and culture.
Held well, this seat is invisible and everything downstream just works. Held badly, students feel it first, and the people we hire now shape how Contour grows.
About This Role
You own the plan behind Contour's academic content. Every resource moves through planning, creation, review, publishing, and printing, across subjects and teams, and you own how that whole pipeline is sequenced, tracked, and kept ahead of need. You build the system that gets content produced on time. You do not run the daily execution inside it.
You report to the COO. The academics lead directs the academic work itself: what gets developed, and to what standard. You work to that direction and turn it into a plan that holds. The academic teams build the resources; the planning, the sequencing, the cross-team coordination, and the visibility are yours. When a recent resource stream opens, you are the person who

📌 Academic Program Manager (India)
🏢 Contour Education
📍 India