Director of Product Architecture $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 engineering expertise who is ready to spearhead the transformation of education through artificial intelligence? 2 Hour Learning seeks a technical architect to drive the evolution of our AI-powered learning platform. This position requires someone with the technical depth to function at a CTO level, the product acumen to champion transformational initiatives, and the commitment to deploy those capabilities toward unlocking student achievement at scale.
While most organizations add AI as a superficial layer to conventional education frameworks, 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 instruction. Our students don't merely progress — they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP assessments, demonstrating multi-year academic advancement within a single year, and repeatedly surpassing their own projections. We have demonstrated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system for learning, student performance accelerates dramatically.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on user feedback cycles or iterative feature releases. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role where you will control the architecture, technical direction, and AI implementation across our entire learning platform. You will be accountable for navigating complex technical tradeoffs to keep our products lean, scalable, and relentlessly oriented toward student outcome improvement. You will operate with the mindset of a CTO while executing with the agility of a product entrepreneur, fusing engineering rigor with learning science principles to consistently deliver 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
- Cultivating and demonstrating comprehensive education product expertise to inform strategic choices
- Creating technical specifications that establish critical technical decisions while prioritizing simplicity, efficiency, and sustainability
- 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; this role demands your business and technical expertise as primary contributions
- Spending time in meetings, committees, and administrative activities; we have streamlined management overhead to enable you to deliver business value through direct execution
- Abstract strategies without actionable implementation guidance; your recommendations must be grounded in product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO of one or more education products, controlling core competencies and generating business value through flawless execution and strategic judgment
Candidate requirements
- 7+ years of experience making 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 involving the use of cloud computing services (primarily AWS)
- 4+ years of experience in roles with complete 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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