Lead Product Architect $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 deep architectural expertise who is ready to pioneer AI-driven transformation in 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 product intuition to catalyze transformational innovation, and the drive to apply these capabilities toward unlocking student achievement at scale.
While most organizations tack AI onto conventional education frameworks as a superficial add-on, 2 Hour Learning has taken a fundamentally different approach: we have reconstructed the school experience from first principles, leveraging AI and learning science to eliminate the limitations of traditional classroom instruction. Our students don't simply progress — they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP examinations, demonstrating multi-year academic advancement within a single year, and routinely surpassing their own performance expectations. We have demonstrated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system for learning, student outcomes surge dramatically.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on customer feedback cycles or iterative feature releases. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role, where you will own the architecture, technical roadmap, and AI integration across our entire learning platform. You will make critical technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and relentlessly centered on enhancing student performance. You will approach challenges with the mindset of a CTO while executing with the agility of a product entrepreneur, combining engineering rigor with learning science principles to deliver continuous innovation.
If you are prepared to lead the technical transformation of education and possess the execution discipline to realize that vision, we invite you to apply. This is your chance to shape the future of learning.
What you will be doing
- Building and demonstrating comprehensive education product expertise to inform strategic direction
- Creating technical specifications that define critical technical decisions and emphasize simplicity, efficiency, and sustainable scalability
- Deploying generative AI capabilities to automate and optimize engineering workflows, supporting the organizational goal of minimizing manual effort
What you will NOT be doing
- Pure people management; your technical and business judgment will be the core drivers of this role
- Spending time on meetings, committees, and administrative overhead; we have automated management tasks so you can concentrate on delivering business impact through direct execution
- High-level strategies disconnected from execution; your guidance must be grounded in product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO of one or more education products, owning foundational capabilities 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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