Job Title:
Head of Education Technology
Company: UniAcadem
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Created: 2026-05-08
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
UniAcadem — Head of Education Technology, IndiaWe're hiring our Head of Education Technology, India.This is the most important job you are going to have.Follow the UniAcadem page to learn more about this role and our other employment opportunities as we build the founding India team and scale our global portfolio.Total compensation: USD $250K – $650K annually (base + performance bonus + founding equity) — approximately 4× the prevailing Indian market benchmark for this role → A board-level voice in shaping the India business → The chance to do the most consequential work of your careerIndia will educate more students in the next 20 years than the United States has educated in its entire history. Over 40 million students in higher education today. More than 1,000 universities. Over 40,000 colleges. A National Education Policy reframing what a degree means for an entire generation.And the infrastructure to deliver on that promise — the predictive enrollment intelligence, the alumni engagement platforms, the institutional-grade endowment management, the research commercialization networks, the curriculum systems that move at the speed of the economy — is being built on top of our powerful platforms that have been build by us over the last 15 years.We are looking for the leader who will build it with us.About UniAcademUniAcadem is a holding company of purpose-built AI platforms for higher education. Each subsidiary is best-in-class in its specific domain. Together, they form the intelligence infrastructure that makes any university — not just the elite — measurably stronger in the metrics that matter: enrollment, alumni engagement, endowment performance, research commercialization, and graduate outcomes.We operate across three strategic markets that, together, define the next two decades of global higher education:→ The United States — the world's largest research economy, with $104.9B in annual university research spend, $839B in endowment assets, and a graduate population in structural transition. Our flagship platforms launched here. → India — the world's largest higher education population, in the middle of the most ambitious policy reform of any major education system. The country where infrastructure built well, today, will compound for a generation. → The global market — Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, the UK, and Continental Europe. Wherever a university president is trying to outperform their endowment benchmark, lift their enrollment yield, or close a graduate employment gap, we intend to be the infrastructure they run on.Our mission is institutional equity. The tools that make elite universities elite should be available to every institution — in Cambridge, Massachusetts; in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; and in every country in between.In India, that mission is not abstract. It is urgent.The RoleThe Head of Education Technology — India will lead our country strategy, partnerships, and product adaptation for the entire UniAcadem portfolio.India is one of three strategic markets — alongside the United States and our broader global business — and the leader of this role will sit on the global executive team that sets direction across all three. The decisions made here will shape how UniAcadem expands into every other emerging higher education market in the world.This is a country-builder role.You will:→ Set the India go-to-market strategy across every UniAcadem subsidiary → Build the founding institutional partnerships — the IITs, IIMs, central universities, state universities, and leading private institutions that will define our category in India → Adapt the platform for Indian regulatory, linguistic, and pedagogical context → Hire and lead the founding India team across product, partnerships, and engineering → Engage with UGC, AICTE, the Ministry of Education, and state higher education bodies → Represent UniAcadem in the Indian higher education conversation — at conferences, in policy forums, in the press → Serve as a member of UniAcadem's global leadership team, with a direct line to the CEOWe do not require a specific degree, gender, background, or pedigree.We require operating excellence and mission alignment. Both. Non-negotiable.What this role offers→ Founding-level equity in India's most ambitious higher education infrastructure company → Full ownership of country strategy, with global engineering and product support → Direct access to UniAcadem's AI infrastructure and global partnership network → Total compensation: USD $250K – $650K annually (base + performance bonus + founding equity) — approximately 4× the prevailing Indian market benchmark for this role → A board-level voice in shaping the India business → The chance to do the most consequential work of your careerWe pay this rate deliberately. We are not hiring a country manager. We are hiring a country builder. The compensation reflects the scale of the mandate, the global seniority of the role, and our conviction that the right leader for India will create disproportionate value across our entire portfolio.Follow the UniAcadem page to learn more about this role and our other employment opportunities as we build the founding India team and scale our global portfolio.#Hiring #HeadOfIndia #EdTech #HigherEducation #UniAcadem #IndiaJobs #LeadershipRoles #InstitutionalEquity #FutureOfHigherEd #EdTechIndia #UniversityIntelligence #BengaluruJobs #DelhiJobs #AIinEducation