The team behind Skill Pointers
Skill Pointers is built by a small, interdisciplinary team at Point Academic Research LLP, India. We bring together educators, technologists, researchers, designers, and operators who care deeply about how people learn and how institutions support that learning in practice.
Our work is powered by Project EDMI and grounded in years of academic research. We collaborate closely across disciplines so that what we build is both technically robust and genuinely useful for students, educators, and partners.
How we work
We are a mission-driven team focused on making complex skills visible and understandable. That mission shapes how we plan, build, and support Skill Pointers every day.
We work in small, cross-functional groups that bring together product, engineering, research, and operations. These groups share responsibility for understanding user needs, designing thoughtful solutions, and iterating based on what we learn. We favor clear problem statements, simple designs, and steady progress over big, one-off launches.
Experimentation is part of our day-to-day practice. We ship changes in small increments, measure their impact, and talk openly about what worked and what did not. We share early drafts, ask for feedback, and treat every project as a chance to learn together.
Supporting users is everyone’s job. Team members regularly listen to user conversations, review support requests, and help shape product decisions. We aim to respond with empathy, clear explanations, and practical next steps, whether we’re working with an individual learner, an educator, or an institutional partner.
What we value as a team
These shared values guide how we work with one another and with the learners, educators, and partners who use Skill Pointers.
Roles and skill sets
Across all of these functions, we are united by a shared commitment to careful thinking about skills, respectful collaboration, and building tools that earn the trust of the learners and partners who rely on them.
How we support growth
We want every person who joins Skill Pointers to feel that their work is a meaningful part of their own learning path. Growth here is not limited to promotion or titles—it also means deepening your craft, widening your perspective, and building confidence in new domains.
Team members work closely with peers from other disciplines, which means you are regularly exposed to new tools, methods, and ways of thinking. Engineers sit in on user research, researchers join product reviews, and partnership leads participate in design critiques. This shared context makes feedback more specific and more useful.
We give and receive feedback frequently and in both directions: through regular 1:1s, project retrospectives, and written reflections. Managers focus on helping people set clear goals, understand how their work connects to the broader mission, and find opportunities to stretch into new responsibilities when they are ready.
Learning also happens outside of formal projects. People share readings, prototypes, and experiments in open channels. We set aside time for deeper dives into topics like skills frameworks, responsible data use, and new approaches to human-centered design, and we encourage team members to bring back insights from conferences, courses, or collaborations with partners.
What it’s like to join
Joining Skill Pointers means joining a team that is still small enough for every person to see their impact. New teammates are paired with a manager and peers who help them get oriented to our tools, our users, and our ways of working. Early projects are scoped so that you can ship something real while you are still learning the landscape.
We welcome colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds, including those who have moved between academia and industry, or who are changing fields entirely. What matters most is a thoughtful approach to your craft, an interest in how people learn, and a willingness to collaborate across research, product, engineering, design, and partnerships.
If you are excited about building better guidance tools for learners and the institutions that serve them, we encourage you to learn more about current opportunities on our Careers page. Even if there is not an exact match today, we are always interested in hearing from people who share our mission and values.
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