Chief Operating Officer/Co-Founder

Company Description

Coursim is an AI-driven learning platform that makes adaptive, personalized learning practical at scale. Built by students, Coursim helps teachers create and share customized courses that adapt to each student's pace, strengths and gaps. Our AI personalized course generator and progress-tracking engine that adapts content cut teacher workload, deliver measurable improvement for underperforming students and turn classroom content into interactive, bite-sized learning paths that keep students engaged.

Key benefits:

• Adaptable learning paths: every student gets a tailored course that changes with their progress.
• Teacher time savings: automated course creation, auto-grading and templated lesson flows free teachers for high-impact coaching.
• Measurable outcomes: analytics show student growth, weak spots, and where teachers should intervene.
• Scalable B2B model: built to sell to schools and districts with tiered pricing and easy onboarding.
• Product differentiation: premium AI features (course generator, unlimited practice "hearts", media uploads, progress locking) that reduce churn and increase perceived value.

Role: Chief Operating Officer / Co-founder (Full time, remote)

I am looking for a driven COO / business co-founder to scale Coursim from pilot schools to nationwide adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Lead operations, finance and go-to-market execution
• Build and run school sales, onboarding, and customer success processes
• Create KPIs and dashboards for usage, retention, LTV and teacher impact
• Design pricing and packaging for K-12 and private school customers
• Run fundraising efforts: investor outreach, pitch decks, term negotiation and closing
• Hire and lead the non-engineering team (sales, customer success, ops)
• Coordinate strategy with the technical founder to prioritize product features that increase adoption and retention

Why this role matters:

You'll turn Coursim's technical advantages (AI personalization, teacher workflow automation, progress analytics) into repeatable revenue and measurable, real impact in classrooms on struggling students.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in raising capital (seed +) and closing investor rounds OR concrete relationships to education investors, VCs, or grant programs
• Demonstrated success in selling to schools or education procurement (districts, school chains, ministries) or strong enterprise / SaaS sales experience
• Strong operational skills: budgeting, forecasting, building dashboards, process design
• Leadership: hiring, mentoring, scaling small teams into predictable revenue engines
• Excellent communicator: investor pitches, contract negotiation, school stakeholders
• Comfortable working remotely and independently
• Passion for education and measurable student outcomes

Compensation:

• This is a co-founder position. Initial cash salary is minimal or nil. Compensation will be primarily equity until the company raises or generates steady revenue.
• Candidate must be able to lead and deliver early funding (seed or grants) within realistic timelines.
• Exact equity % and vesting to be negotiated based on experience, traction and fundraising commitments.

Nice-to-have:

• Previous edtech experience or connections to schools/district procurement channels
• Experience designing pricing tiers for schools and managing pilot to rollout cycles
• Background in data and analytics for education outcomes

First 90-day goals:

1. Build a go-to-market plan and sales pipeline with at least 8 qualified school leads. (Calculated)
2. Set up finance and KPI dashboards for monthly active teachers/students, retention, and LTV.
3. Lead first fundraising outreach and secure investor or grant conversations.