Head of Education Excellence

🌍 About Boundless Life

Boundless Life is redefining the way families live, work, and learn by empowering them to embrace a nomadic lifestyle that fosters deeper connections and personal growth. We provide family-friendly accommodations, an innovative education system that travels with you, and vibrant communities of like-minded individuals. Our mission is to create immersive 'live abroad' experiences that balance professional commitments with enriching personal development.

Since our founding in 2021, we've rapidly expanded to eight locations across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, bringing together over 200 team members from diverse backgrounds. Our growth reflects our commitment to transforming the experience economy and making a meaningful impact on how families integrate work, education, and exploration into their lives.

At Boundless Life, we believe in the power of community and the importance of a holistic approach to education. Our programs are designed to inspire curiosity, build resilience, and nurture a global perspective, preparing children for an ever-changing future.

Join us in pioneering a new way of living that harmoniously blends work, learning, and adventure, enabling families to thrive in a connected and dynamic world.

🎯 Role Overview

As Head of Education Excellence, you lead the full education vertical across all eight locations on three continents — the curriculum specialists, the Program and Learning Design team, WASC and accreditation, Summer Camps, Education Center Directors, and the Student Support and Admissions function. You are the person accountable for the quality, coherence, and operational performance of everything that happens inside a Boundless Education Center.

Your mission is to ensure that the Boundless educational vision is executed with clarity, consistency, and operational rigor across every destination. We are at a pivotal moment: reimagining what education can look like for globally mobile families, setting trends rather than following them, and proving that project based, place based learning can deliver both academic depth and real world impact at scale. This role exists to make that vision operational and consistent, across every site, every cohort, every season.

You report directly to the COO and lead a globally distributed team of education specialists, site directors, and program leads. You are the direct bridge between global ambition and local execution, and the person who ensures that what we promise families is what they actually experience.

💼 What You'll Do

Education Vertical Leadership

Lead the full Education Excellence team: curriculum specialists across Early Years, Primary, and Middle School; the Program and Learning Design team; WASC and accreditation; Summer Camps; Education Center Directors; and the Student Support and Case Management function

Set the strategic direction for education quality across all sites, anchoring the curriculum in project based learning and ensuring that every cohort delivers on the Boundless promise to families

Own the rollout and continuous improvement of our core competency framework and ensure it is operationalized consistently across all locations

Partner with the COO on education strategy, resourcing, and the decisions that shape the family experience at scale

ECD Leadership Development and Accountability

Build the infrastructure that enables ECDs to lead with clarity: clear decision rights, defined boundaries, structured support, and a meaningful feedback loop between global and local

Train and hold ECDs accountable for being strong instructional coaches — effectively observing, giving quality feedback, and developing their educators

Build and deliver structured onboarding for new ECDs so they are equipped to lead confidently within their first 90 days

Design and deliver ongoing professional development across leadership, instructional coaching, operational discipline, data analysis, and difficult conversation management

Lead the annual global ECD summit to align expectations, share best practices, and strengthen peer accountability across locations

Develop a clear progression pathway for ECDs with defined competencies from emerging leader to high performing site director

Identify and mentor emerging leaders across the education team to build a sustainable leadership pipeline

Instructional Quality and Program Delivery

Ensure the Boundless educational philosophy — project based, place based, experiential — is understood, embodied, and consistently delivered by every educator across the network

Partner with the Head of PLD to translate the curriculum framework into practical tools, resources, and training that educators can actually use

Set and maintain a minimum standard for PBL quality across all sites, moving away from a model where quality depends on individual educator interpretation

Ensure the two core promises are delivered for every family: a coherent, documented learning journey for long-term families, and one exceptional place-based project for short-term cohorts

Operational Excellence and Site Support

Ensure adherence to all Boundless policies, procedures, and WASC accreditation requirements across every location

Travel regularly to locations to assess needs, stabilize teams during transitions, and serve as the primary leadership representative during crisis response

Oversee the strategic procurement of educational materials and resources so no campus is under-equipped

Drive tighter integration between education and operations, reducing friction and conflicting requests from global to local

Staffing, Recruitment and Performance

Partner with the People team and ECDs to define hiring criteria and recruit top talent across the education function

Set and monitor clear KPIs for ECDs and educators in collaboration with functional leads, using data on student progress, staff performance, and family satisfaction to drive decisions

Implement systems for educator wellness, retention, and leadership development that support long-term sustainability

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with Admissions, Sales, and Operations to ensure site-level planning is aligned with global enrollment goals and the realities of each location

Partner with ECDs to resolve escalated family concerns related to education, maintaining high levels of trust and satisfaction

Work across all youth-facing programming to ensure an integrated experience for children and families across the full Boundless offering

🧠 You'll Be Valued For

You have direct experience leading education organizations across multiple countries, ideally across continents. You understand what it takes to hold quality, compliance and culture together when your team spans time zones, languages, and local contexts

You have 10+ years in education leadership, with a proven track record of developing and holding accountable other leaders

You've built or scaled instructional coaching systems across multiple sites and you know what rigorous, consistent implementation looks like on the ground

You bring deep fluency in project based and experiential learning. You can spot excellent teaching when you see it, and you can articulate exactly why

You operate with a coach first mentality. Your instinct is to develop people, not manage them, and your results reflect it

You think in systems. You can translate a vision into a playbook, a playbook into a KPI, and a KPI into a feedback loop that actually changes behavior

You're at home in high travel, high stakes environments. You don't just tolerate ambiguity and crisis, you stabilize them

You lead across cultures without losing rigor or warmth. You know that global standardization and local sensitivity are not opposites

You've built high performing teams and managed performance at the leadership level. You can have hard conversations, follow through on accountability, and do both with respect

You're a strong cross functional partner who knows how to work alongside multiple stakeholders without losing sight of the educational mission

📈 What Success Looks Like

In your first 6 to 12 months, we expect:

The educational vision is being executed with consistency across all sites — families experience the same quality of learning, the same project based approach, and the same standard of communication regardless of which destination they're in

The Education Excellence team is operating as one unified function with clear roles, clear reporting lines, and a shared understanding of what excellent looks like

ECD foundations are in place: clear development plans, defined KPIs, a structured onboarding program, and a coaching cadence that is actually moving the needle on site quality

Instructional quality has a defined minimum standard for PBL delivery and is being assessed and iterated consistently across all locations

WASC compliance is maintained across all locations with no gaps in documentation or process

Family satisfaction with the education experience is measurable, tracked, and trending in the right direction

The education function is seen internally as a source of clarity and stability — by ECDs, by educators, and by the broader organization

🤝 Who You'll Work With

You'll report directly to Brian, our COO, who has spent 25+ years scaling mission-driven organizations and brings deep experience building operational systems from the ground up. Prior to Boundless Life, Brian facilitated the creation of international standards for curriculum and training for Montessori at the Middle and High School level and led cross-functional education teams through rapid growth.

🌟 Why Join Us

The opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious global education companies being built right now, at a genuine inflection point in how families live, work, and learn

True flexibility and autonomy in how you work. This is a fully remote, location independent role built on trust and outcomes

An opportunity to influence what Boundless Education becomes

Travel and immersion across eight locations on three continents

A mission that is genuinely meaningful: the work you do shapes how children learn and how families live, at scale

Eligibility for the Boundless Sponsored Cohort Program, giving you and your family direct access to the experience you're helping to build

✅ What to Expect Next

Intro call with the People team — a 30 minute conversation about your background, what draws you to Boundless, and how the role is structured

Call with the COO — a deeper conversation about the education vision, the operational challenges, and how you think about leading at this scale

Call with representatives of your direct reports — a chance for you to hear directly from the team you'd be leading, and for them to meet you

Call with the CEO — a conversation about where Boundless is going and how this role shapes that trajectory

Personality questionnaire

References

Paid scoping project (where relevant) — a short, mutually agreed project to assess fit from both sides before a final decision. Not a test — a collaboration

📖 Want to Know More?

Curious to learn more about what we're building and why? Read our story and explore how Boundless Life is redefining the way families live, work, and learn around the world: 👉 https://www.boundless.life