Vice President of Product Engineering $400,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
Are you a technical product leader with the expertise to shape the future of AI-driven education? 2 Hour Learning seeks a technical architect to spearhead the evolution of our AI-powered learning platform. This position demands someone who possesses the technical depth to function as a CTO, the strategic product vision to catalyze transformational change, and the drive to apply those capabilities toward unlocking student potential at scale never before achieved.
While most organizations add AI to conventional education frameworks as a superficial enhancement, 2 Hour Learning has taken an entirely different approach: we've reconstructed the school model from its foundation, leveraging AI and learning science to fundamentally eliminate the limitations of traditional classrooms. Our students don't merely improve — they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, demonstrating multi-year academic advancement within a single year, and routinely surpassing their own expectations. We've validated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system of learning, student performance reaches exponential levels.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on customer feedback cycles or gradual feature rollouts. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role, where you will command the architecture, technical strategy, and AI integration across our complete learning system. You'll be accountable for navigating the critical technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and uncompromisingly focused on elevating student outcomes. You will reason like a CTO while executing like a product entrepreneur, synthesizing engineering rigor with learning science principles to consistently deliver breakthroughs.
If you are prepared to drive the technical transformation of education itself and possess the executional discipline to realize that vision, we invite your application. This is your chance to architect the future of learning.
What you will be doing
- Cultivating and demonstrating comprehensive education product expertise to inform strategic decisions
- Crafting technical specifications that resolve critical technical decisions while prioritizing simplicity, efficiency, and sustainable long-term architecture
- Deploying generative AI technologies to automate and optimize engineering workflows, consistent with the strategic objective of minimizing manual effort
What you will NOT be doing
- Pure people management; your technical and business judgment will be the defining elements of this role
- Spending your time in meetings, committees, and administrative overhead; we have automated management burdens so you can concentrate on delivering business value through direct contribution
- High-level strategies divorced from implementation detail; your recommendations must be grounded in product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO for one or more education products, commanding core technical competencies and generating business value through flawless execution and strategic judgment
Candidate requirements
- Deep experience or interest in data-driven learning science
- 7+ years of experience making the important architecture and design decisions on software projects, such as the application of architecture design patterns or significant open source technologies
- 2+ years of experience making design decisions involving the use of cloud computing services (primarily AWS)
- 4+ years of experience in positions with full technical and delivery ownership on a revenue-generating product
- Experience building product features that make advanced use of Generative AI
- Experience using Generative AI to simplify work processes
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