Qualification & Experiences
-Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience in education, serving low-income
communities
-Strong experience in teaching, coaching, or school innovation
-Demonstrated comfort with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), with the ability to learn new tools quickly and explain them to educators.
-Experience facilitating adult learning; ability to lead engaging, outcomes-driven training sessions.
-Demonstrates openness to learning, adaptability, and a problem-solving
mindset.
-Strong relational skills with a track record of building trust across diverse
stakeholders.
-Ability to translate complex ideas into simple, contextual practices for low-
resource schools.
-Program and project management experience in multi-stakeholder
environments.
-Comfort with fast-paced, iterative, mission-driven work.
-Passion for educational equity and working with low-income communities.
-Strong openness to learning and feedback, with a willingness to reflect, adapt,
and grow in a fast-evolving program environment
-Willingness to travel (approximately 40% depending on program needs).
Bonus Points:
-Experience in instructional technology, AI literacy, PD design, or systems
innovation.
-Experience building school or teacher capacity in new tools or pedagogies.
-Experience working with global partners or cross-cultural teams.
-Experience teaching in low-income communities
Responsibilities
Lead Playlab implementation across The Circle and India:
-Build a strong understanding of Circle schools, after-schools, and the Indian education landscape to identify high-leverage opportunities for AI integration.
-Ensure Circle and partner organisations receive the support they need to meet their goals—whether focused on AI literacy, instructional improvement, or operational innovation.
-Adapt and contextualise Playlab’s AI tools and frameworks for Circle and diverse Indian school contexts.
-Co-design AI-enabled workflows, planning tools, and instructional/operational resources aligned to school models and needs.
Design and deliver high-quality professional learning and coaching for educators:
-Create and facilitate AI learning experiences—residencies, PLCs, workshops, and coaching cycles—for teachers, coaches, and school leaders.
-Build educator capacity to use AI effectively and responsibly, rooted in school context, pedagogy, and student needs.
-Support educators in integrating AI into planning, instruction, resource creation, assessment, and data-informed practice.
Support strategic AI adoption across schools and systems:
-Spend time at Circle sites and partner schools across India to understand real instructional and operational contexts.
-Work closely with school leaders, teachers, coaches, and ops teams to identify priority use-cases for AI across teaching, learning, assessments, and school operations.
-Facilitate goal-setting, success planning, and change management as schools scale their AI adoption.
Bring insights from the field back into Playlab and Circle strategy:
-Capture learnings from classrooms and school systems on effective, contextual AI use.
-Share insights to:
a.) Playlab – to improve platform features, learning resources, and partnership
strategy.
b.) Circle U + The Circle – to strengthen teacher prep, curriculum design, and
school-support model
Grow Playlab’s partnerships across India:
-Support Playlab in developing partnerships with school systems, individual schools, and key Indian organisations (e.g., Pratham, Pi Jam).
-Engage with higher education and workforce learning partners to help build future learning infrastructure that spans school-to-work pathways.
-Contribute Circle insights to Playlab’s broader India-facing work (~10% of the role)
Senior Manager, AI Consultant, Circle U
Circle U
Summary
As the Senior Manager, AI Consultant for Circle U and Playlab, you will lead how AI becomes deeply embedded in the schools and after-school centres within The Circle’s ecosystem. You will also play a role in spreading the work of Playlab to partner organizations. In this role, you will ensure that AI strengthens teacher preparation, curriculum, classroom instruction, coaching, and school-level systems across our network.
This role sits inside The Circle, with deep partnership and ongoing upskilling from Playlab (U.S.)—a global leader in AI literacy and strategic AI adoption in education. You will translate global research and Playlab’s emerging models into tools and practices that are contextual to The Circle and India.
By 2033, Circle U aims to become a reputable School of Education, preparing 3,000+ educators with the capabilities to reinvent learning. This role is a rare opportunity to help shape that institution at its founding stage.
Circle U is entering Year 2 of operations. This is a build-from-the-ground-up phase: systems are still being shaped, quality benchmarks are being defined, and the long- term identity of the program is being forged. As part of the Circle U founding team, this role is for someone who is energised by the pace, complexity, and ambiguity of a start-up environment within a mission-driven organization - someone who is excited to strengthen, deliver, and scale a teacher education model that has the potential to reinvent teacher education in India.
You will work at the intersection of AI, teacher preparation, and school innovation, leading how The Circle’s entrepreneurs, teachers, coaches, and other stakeholders leverage AI to accelerate planning, personalise instruction, build high-quality learning resources, and strengthen student learning outcomes.
This role is ideal for someone who is excited about thought partnership, systems change, hands-on implementation, and reinvention in India’s schools.