Lead Curriculum Designer (Math and English)
Summary
Designs high-quality maths and English curriculum content (booklets, assessments, worked solutions) from scratch and sets the style and structural standards the team follows. Works remotely in India, collaborating with the Australia-based academic team to shape how thousands of students learn.
This is a remote position.
Lead Curriculum Designer (Math and English), India Remote (India) | Full-Time Also searched as: Curriculum Developer, Curriculum Lead, Lead Content Developer, Academic Content Lead, Instructional Designer, Subject Matter Expert (Maths and English)
Do you want to own how thousands of students experience maths and english, not just write the questions, but set the style, structure, and standard that every booklet is built to?
In a typical week you might design the format and framework for a new booklet series, write and refine worked solutions that read like a great tutor talking a student through it, and set the content standard the rest of the team builds from.
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.
The resources you design are the backbone of how students learn. Get the structure and the clarity right and a hard concept becomes obvious. That is the job.
The resources you design are the backbone of how students learn. Get the structure and the clarity right and a hard concept becomes obvious. That is the job.
About This Role
You own the creation and the standard of Contour's maths and english content. So far our academic teams have worked mostly with existing resources. Now we want someone to build fresh material from scratch and define how it is presented, explained, and structured for maximum student impact.
You create original, high-quality content for booklets, assessments, and learning resources, and you set the style, structure, and format that future resources follow. You write clear, student-friendly explanations, examples, and step-by-step solutions that read like a great tutor rather than a textbook. This is a hands-on builder and owner role, not editing or copy-paste: you define question types, set frameworks, and build the scalable processes that content is produced through.
You report into Contour's onshore academic team in Australia and work alongside our existing India content team, aligning what you build with the learning objectives and curriculum requirements they set. You own accuracy, clarity, and consistency across resources, and you set the standard the rest of the team works to. As the content function grows, this is the natural path into content leadership.
The bar that separates a strong hire is subject mastery paired with a designer's eye. You understand maths and english deeply enough to make a hard idea simple, and you care as much about how a resource is structured and presented as about whether the answer is correct. By the end of your first three months, you have produced original booklet or assessment material to a standard the team adopts, defined the style and format for a resource type, and set frameworks others build from.
What You Will Do
- Build original content. Create high-quality maths and english material for booklets, assessments, and learning resources, from scratch.
- Set the style and structure. Define the format and framework of resources, shaping how they are presented, not just writing the questions.
- Explain like a tutor. Write clear, student-friendly explanations, examples, and step-by-step solutions that help students understand the reasoning, not just the answer.
- Partner with the onshore team. Align content with the learning objectives and curriculum requirements the Australia-based academic team sets.
- Own the standard. Ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency across resources, and define the frameworks the rest of the team follows.
- Make it scale. Build content processes and improve question types, structure, and delivery so quality holds as volume grows.
Requirements
What You Need
- A bachelor's or master's degree in English, mathematics, or a related field.
- Strong command of maths and english content, enough to make a hard concept simple.
- A designer's eye for structure: you care how a resource is organized and presented, not only whether it is correct.
- Excellent written communication and sharp attention to detail.
- The ability to work independently, own projects end to end, and set a standard others follow.
- Cross-timezone comfort, with overlap into Australian time.
Nice to Have
- Experience in academic content development: booklets, assessments, or worked solutions.
- Experience defining content style, frameworks, or curriculum structure.
- Familiarity with international curricula such as VCE, or with edtech environments.
The Kind of People Who Thrive Here
The people who do well here are hands-on creators who would rather build from scratch than edit someone else's work. They care about clarity, structure, and how a student actually experiences a resource, and they want ownership and visible impact rather than repetitive writing. They set a standard and hold it. As the function grows, the strongest of them move into content leadership.
What good looks like
- Original material, adopted: what you build becomes the standard the team works to.
- Hard concepts made clear: your structure and explanations make difficult ideas land.
- A standard others follow: your frameworks and style guide the whole team's output.
- It scales: content gets produced faster and more consistently because of what you set up.
Benefits
Fully remote, anywhere in India. Your day runs on India hours with overlap into Australian business time. Compensation is competitive and bench marked to the role and your experience. We discuss it openly early in the process.
Apply with a CV and a sample or short description of a resource you built from scratch, a booklet, an assessment, or a set of worked solutions, and a line on what you designed and why.