Head of Academic Product

Rocket Tech School is seeking a Head of Academic Product to develop a cohesive academic product system for children aged 5-17, focusing on progress tracking, learning analytics, and AI integration. Rocket Tech School is an online school for digital skills for children aged 5-17. We teach programming, AI, digital creativity, mathematics, Roblox, Scratch, Python, Unity, and other subjects. The school is growing: we are developing a STEM/AI line, integrating new educational products, entering B2B/B2G, and aiming to build an international-level education system.

• •Build a student progress system:
• •Design how we understand and measure a child's progress:
• •hard skills and meta skills;
• •levels of mastery;
• •project assessment criteria;
• •rubrics for educators;
• •format of progress reports for parents;
• •logic for transitioning between levels and courses.
• •Develop educational analytics:
• •Work with learning data:
• •attendance;
• •task completion;
• •project submissions;
• •test results;
• •project quality;
• •feedback from parents and educators;
• •retention, refunds, NPS/CSAT;
• •points of dropout and loss of motivation.
• •Restructure the product line:
• •Help consolidate various courses into a unified STEM/AI system:
• •identify core courses;
• •understand their interconnections;
• •identify duplicates;
• •determine missing levels;
• •clarify results promised to parents;
• •decide which products to develop, combine, or discontinue.
• •Work with the platform and AI:
• •Develop digital learning experiences: progress tracking, personal accounts, reports for parents, self-study, AI assistants, auto-checking simple tasks, AI analysis of feedback.
• •Formulate requirements for the platform and AI features based on educational outcomes.
• •Manage the academic team:
• •Oversee methodologists, subject experts, and educators regarding quality standards:
• •set course development standards;
• •help the team think in terms of trajectories rather than lessons;
• •participate in hiring and developing methodologists;
• •calibrate assessment criteria;
• •reduce dependence on individual strong performers.

• •Format: Remote. Full-time. The team is distributed, and students live in different countries.
• •Salary: $2000-3000.

• •Experience managing educational products at a scale of several thousand students;
• •Understanding of learning outcomes, skill maps, assessment, progression, rubric-based evaluation;
• •Experience with educational analytics and product-educational metrics;
• •Ability to link learning quality with retention, LTV, refunds, NPS/CSAT;
• •Experience working with platforms / LMS / personal accounts / simulators;
• •Interest in AI in education;
• •Experience managing methodologists, educators, experts, or instructional designers;
• •Ability to work in uncertainty and build systems from scratch.

• •Experience in children's EdTech;
• •Experience in STEM / AI / programming / digital creativity;
• •Experience with project-based learning;
• •Experience building progress tracking / value added / goal achievement;
• •Experience with international educational products;
• •Experience with accreditations or international standards: IB, Cambridge, Edexcel, PISA, CEFR, Cognia, Education Alliance Finland.