Director - ERP

ABOUT RISHIHOOD UNIVERSITY Rishihood is Indias first national transformation university. It prepares learners to solve the big problems of tomorrow. Our transformative education is built on three pillars: Personal Impact developing physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual strength. Professional Impact building real-world skills through industry-integrated, practice-based learning. Public Impact fostering interdisciplinary thinking and a commitment to nation-building. At Rishihood, we nurture leaders who will transform themselves, their professions, and the nation. POSITION | Director ERP This role leads the RishiVerse Tech team and owns the university's ERP not just its upkeep, but its architecture. We have developers who can build features; what we need is someone who can think through the entire user journey (student, faculty, admin, parent) and design a system that actually works for how people use it. This person works closely with UI/UX and with stakeholders across schools and functions to translate real operational needs into a coherent, well-architected platform, and then plans the roadmap to get there. Key Responsibilities Own the ERP roadmap: architecture, data model, and the sequence in which capabilities get built Map end-to-end user journeys across student, faculty, and administrative workflows, and identify where the current system creates friction. Work directly with UI/UX to design interfaces that are usable by non-technical stakeholders faculty, wardens, admissions staff Translate requirements from stakeholders across schools and functions into technical specifications Lead and mentor the existing developer team; assign and review work against the architecture plan Set technical standards for the ERP: data integrity, integrations, scalability as the university grows Build and maintain an action plan with clear milestones, not just an open-ended backlog Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for specific modules where relevant Requirements 10 - 12 years of experience in software/product architecture, with direct experience owning an ERP or comparable internal platform Demonstrated ability to think in systems someone who can look at a messy, partially-built ERP and see the clean architecture underneath it Working fluency in UI/UX principles, even if not a hands-on designer able to brief and evaluate design work Experience managing developers and translating stakeholder needs into technical execution Prior experience in EdTech, higher education, or a similarly multi-stakeholder environment is a strong plus Comfortable being the technical decision-maker in a room full of non-technical stakeholders Reporting Line Heads the RishiVerse Tech team; reports to the COO's office. Requirements .