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
This is a technical leadership role designed for a product architect who combines deep engineering expertise with the strategic vision to transform education through artificial intelligence. 2 Hour Learning seeks a technical architect to modernize and lead our AI-powered learning ecosystem—a position requiring the technical precision of a Chief Technology Officer, the product instincts to catalyze transformational change, and the commitment to scale student potential like never before.
While most organizations treat AI as an add-on to legacy education frameworks, 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. The results speak for themselves—our students don't merely improve, they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, demonstrating multi-year academic gains in a single year, and routinely surpassing their own expectations. When AI operates as the foundational layer of learning, student performance reaches extraordinary levels.
This role diverges from conventional product management centered on customer feedback cycles or incremental feature rollouts. Instead, this is an executive-level technical product ownership position in which you will control the architecture, technical strategy, and AI integration across our entire learning platform. You will make critical technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and laser-focused on elevating student outcomes. You will operate with the mindset of a CTO and the velocity of a product entrepreneur, fusing engineering rigor with learning science principles to unlock continuous breakthroughs.
If you are prepared to spearhead the technical reinvention of education and possess the executional discipline to back that vision, we invite you to apply. This is your chance to shape the future of learning.
What you will be doing
- Building and applying deep expertise in education products to inform strategic decisions
- Authoring technical specifications that drive critical technical decisions while prioritizing simplicity, efficiency, and long-term sustainability
- Deploying generative AI technologies to automate and optimize engineering workflows, in alignment with the strategic goal of minimizing manual effort
What you will NOT be doing
- Managing people as a primary function; this role prioritizes business and technical acumen
- Spending time on meetings, committees, or administrative overhead; we have automated management tasks so you can focus on delivering tangible business value through hands-on contributions
- Proposing high-level strategies without actionable implementation detail; your recommendations must be grounded in product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO for one or more education products, owning core competencies and delivering business value through flawless execution and strategic leadership
Candidate requirements
- 7+ years of experience making critical architecture and design decisions on software projects, including 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 roles with full technical and delivery ownership on a revenue-generating product
- Experience using AI agents to design, implement, and test software products or features
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