Technical Director- Writing

Athena Education; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Athena Education, India’s leading premium undergraduate study abroad organization, invites a Creative Writing Technical Director to shape college essays and projects that reflect students' brands for top universities. You will lead multi-dimensional writing across essays, scripts, poetry, and other formats, mentor a team, and collaborate with PR and counseling teams in a dynamic educational setting.

The role demands exceptional long-form writing, strong communication, and client-management

Qualifications

• Exceptional long-form writing ability and a portfolio of essays, scripts, and creative writing.
• Ability to translate student brands into compelling college applications and essays.
• Strong communication and client-management skills required.
• Experience mentoring writers and coordinating with education-focused teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the essay process by understanding students and translating their brand into essays and other application facets.
• Outline and develop essays with strong content, structure, and style for elite universities.
• Guide students on creative projects across theatre scripts, books, and poetry.
• Conduct writing workshops to build skills in writing and communication.
• Support writing for company PR and student counseling.
• Potential to mentor a team of writers and foster collaboration.

Skills

Exceptional writing

Multi-Dimensional creativity

Excellent communication

Client management

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s

Job description

Athena Education is India’s largest and fastest growing organization in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 11 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 26 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences, and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various, universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago, among others.

A Writing Technical Director will infuse college essays/projects creativity.

This role is for candidates who are looking for highly creative work. If you enjoy working in dynamic educational environments and love expanding the horizons of your linguistic innovation, we look forward to hearing from you!

Key Skills

• Exceptional writing skills (Long form)
• Multi-Dimensional Creative ability - Stories, Essays, Scripts, etc.
• Excellent Communication skills
• Client management

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the essay process of students by understanding students thoroughly, and working with them to translate their brand into an assortment of essays and other facets of the college application.
• Ideate and outline essays with excellent content, structure, and style while ensuring that all drafts are polished and ready for submission to elite universities like Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale university, etc.
• Guide students with various creative projects spanning theater scripts, book writing, and poetry writing.
• Conduct creative workshops that build writing, communication, and other skills in students.
• Support writing for company public relations.
• Support with student counseling.
• Potential opportunity to manage and mentor a team of writers, supporting collaboration and growth

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s from top colleges in India and abroad
• Preferred experience 5+ years in writing/editing

Why should you be interested?

Impact

Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.

Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.

The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

We give every opportunity to our team members to grow holistically: grow in their field of interest, and become leaders at early stages of their career.

Our team comprises creative and diverse people, all goal-oriented, proactive, and looking to transform students’ lives. We love to work hard, play hard! Our work environment encourages you to be an independent thinker, an intellectually curious team member, and be an objective decision maker. To top it all, we love to share food!

Location & Work Environment: Vatika Triangle, MG Road, Gurugram 122002.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.