Principal 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 technically rigorous product leader eager to help reinvent education through artificial intelligence? 2 Hour Learning seeks a technical architect to drive the modernization of our AI-powered learning platform. This position demands the technical depth of a CTO, the strategic vision to lead transformational initiatives, and the commitment to apply both toward unlocking student potential at scale.
Most organizations append AI to conventional education frameworks as a supplement. 2 Hour Learning has taken a fundamentally different approach: we have reconstructed the school model from first principles, leveraging AI and learning science to eliminate the limitations inherent in traditional classrooms. Our students do not merely improve—they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, demonstrating multi-year academic growth within a single year, and routinely surpassing their own projected outcomes. We have demonstrated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system of learning, student achievement accelerates dramatically.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on customer feedback cycles or incremental feature rollouts. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role in which you will own the architecture, technical roadmap, and AI integration across our entire learning system. You will be accountable for the difficult technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and relentlessly optimized for student outcomes. You will combine the mindset of a CTO with the velocity of a product entrepreneur, merging engineering discipline with learning science principles to drive continuous breakthroughs.
If you are prepared to lead the technical transformation of education and possess the executional 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 decisions
- Authoring technical specifications that embody critical technical decisions and emphasize simplicity, efficiency, and sustainable design
- Deploying generative AI technologies to automate and optimize engineering workflows, supporting the strategic objective of minimizing manual effort
What you will NOT be doing
- Pure people management; your technical and business judgment will be central to this role
- Spending time in meetings, committees, and administrative overhead; we have automated management tasks so you can concentrate on delivering business value through direct execution
- Abstract strategies disconnected from implementation; your guidance must be grounded in product-level detail
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO of one or more education products, owning foundational competencies and generating business value through flawless execution and strategic judgment
Candidate requirements
- Substantial experience or genuine interest in data-driven learning science
- 7+ years of experience leading critical architecture and design decisions on software projects, including the application of architecture design patterns or major open source technologies
- 2+ years of experience making design decisions that involve cloud computing services (primarily AWS)
- 4+ years of experience in roles with complete technical and delivery ownership of a revenue-generating product
- Proven experience building product features that leverage advanced Generative AI capabilities
- Demonstrated experience using Generative AI to streamline work processes
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