Adviser to Chief Executive — Education Technology Expansion

The mandate

The board cannot settle whether its product and evidence travel well enough to justify direct entry, institutional partnership or licence models abroad. Revenue forecasts currently get ahead of curriculum fit, safeguarding and implementation capacity.

Two days monthly include a market-entry clinic and Strategy Committee attendance. Advice on a partner or country gate receives acknowledgement within two working days and a recommendation within five.

The nine-month term ends with approval of the first two market plays. A three-month renewal may be granted by the chair; the adviser has no line authority, country P&L, partner signature or executive responsibility.

Three parallel appointments are permissible outside direct education competitors. Relationships with schools, universities, distributors, investors or localisation vendors in target markets require disclosure, and introduction fees are excluded.

Why the board wants this voice

The company has domestic product depth but limited institutional-market experience abroad. Directors need someone who can connect learning evidence, buying cycles and implementation realities. The adviser will test expansion logic without becoming a deal broker.

What you will own

• Test target markets for learner need, buying authority, regulation and implementation burden.
• Challenge localisation estimates across curriculum, pedagogy, language and safeguarding.
• Press leaders to evidence learning outcomes that withstand institutional diligence.
• Shape choice among direct, channel, licence and strategic-partnership models.
• Examine partner economics, data rights and renewal dependence.
• Guide decision gates from discovery through pilot and committed entry.
• Advise when a market's apparent size does not justify organisational distraction.

Candidate qualifications

• 18–22 years in education, education technology, institutional sales or international growth.
• Direct responsibility for entering at least two regulated education markets.
• Evidence of using learning outcomes in institutional purchasing or renewal decisions.
• Experience structuring channel, licence and delivery partnerships.
• Board-level command of market-entry investment and safeguarding risk.
• Independence from target-market brokers and prospective partners.

Non-negotiables

• Two Bengaluru days monthly through the first two market decisions.
• Five-working-day response on complete partner or country packs.
• Disclosure of education, distributor, investor and vendor relationships.
• No introduction fee, executive authority or partner-negotiation mandate.

1. 49 words maximum. Which education market did you enter, and what learner or buyer evidence determined the chosen model?
2. 49 words maximum. Which school, university, distributor, investor or vendor relationships require disclosure?
3. 49 words maximum. Can you protect two monthly days through two market gates over nine months?