OpenSciEd | Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer Opportunity

 OpenSciEd seeks a CEO to guide its next stage of growth: expanding access to high-quality K–12 science education and ensuring that adoption translates into strong classroom implementation and meaningful learning for all students.

Fast Facts

Compensation: $300,000–$325,000 + benefits

Location: Remote | Anticipated start: Q1 2027

Reports to: OpenSciEd Board of Directors

The Organization

Developed with leading science educators, researchers, and classroom teachers, OpenSciEd’s free, NGSS-aligned instructional materials engage all students in student-led science learning. Its materials, professional learning, and ongoing support help schools and districts create science classrooms where students investigate, ask questions, use evidence, and build explanations about the world around them.

OpenSciEd has earned trust as a leader in high quality, open-source science curriculum and professional learning. As curriculum development advances, the next CEO will expand reach, strengthen educator and partner support, ensure financial stability, and respond thoughtfully to emerging technologies, including AI, while protecting the quality, openness, and student-centered approach that distinguish the organization.

What You Will Accomplish

Lead the strategy. Implement an innovative, field-responsive strategic plan that affirms OpenSciEd’s leadership in shaping the future of science curriculum.

Scale adoption and impact. Grow adoption and market share while protecting the freely accessible core. Define successful implementation and connect professional learning, user feedback, partner standards, and product improvement so all students—especially those in communities underserved or underrepresented in science—experience the intended quality of instruction.

Build an adaptive culture. Strengthen a work culture grounded in trust, transparency, educator voice, and OpenSciEd’s core values, enabling alignment and effective leadership through change.

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CEO Priorities

 The CEO will guide OpenSciEd’s next stage of growth, expanding access to high-quality science education while strengthening classroom implementation and long-term financial sustainability. The role’s priorities span strategic planning and implementation (30%), revenue generation (25%), and partnerships (25%), with additional focus on culture transformation (10%) and collaboration with the Board and executive team (10%) . Together, these priorities call for a leader who can translate vision into action, build strong relationships, and cultivate a culture of trust, learning, and shared purpose.

Who Should Apply

We welcome leaders with significant experience in the following areas:

• Creating and executing innovative, field-responsive strategies
• Leading and motivating high-performing teams around a shared vision
• Building cycles of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement
• Designing, building, and scaling high-quality curriculum
• Building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups

Potential candidates may include:

• Education nonprofit C-suite leaders
• Chief Academic Officers
• Chief Operating Officer
• Chief Growth Officers
• Chief Product Officers
• Chief Innovation Officers
• EdTech and startup leaders
• Executives with past or current school system experience



Support Across The Field

 OpenSciEd’s work is supported by funders including Amazon Future Engineer, Gates Foundation, Andrew Carnegie Foundation, Overdeck Family Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Cambiar Education . This support helps advance OpenSciEd’s mission to expand access to high-quality, student-centered science education.

What Stakeholders Say

“OpenSciEd has pioneered curriculum by which classroom teachers, district and state leadership, researchers and curriculum developers work together…

their impact has truly been remarkable to the field”

— Jill Cowart, former Assistant Superintendent of Academic Content, Louisiana Department of Education



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