Vice President of Product Engineering, 2 Hour Learning

Description Vice President of Product Engineering, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) Salary: $400,000/year USD Do you have the technical prowess and visionary leadership to revolutionize education with AI? Join 2 Hour Learning as our Vice President of Product Engineering, where you'll spearhead the transformation of our AI‑centric educational platform. This pivotal role requires a blend of CTO‑level technical rigor, innovative product vision, and a fervent commitment to enhancing student success on a massive scale. Unlike others who simply tack AI onto existing models, we reimagined the educational framework from scratch, leveraging AI and learning science to break free from the traditional classroom’s limitations. Our students excel, achieving multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, experiencing multi‑year academic growth in just one year, and surpassing their own expectations. This isn’t your typical product management role focused on customer feedback or minor feature updates. As an executive‑level technical product owner, you’ll oversee the architecture, technical strategy, and AI integration of our entire learning system. Your task is to make decisive technical trade‑offs, ensuring our products remain lean, scalable, and relentlessly targeted at enhancing student outcomes. What You Will Be Doing Using deep expertise in educational products to guide strategic decision‑making. Crafting technical specifications that prioritize simplicity, efficiency, and long‑term sustainability. Implementing generative AI technologies to automate and optimize engineering processes, aligning with our vision to minimize manual labor. What You Won’t Be Doing Focusing solely on people management; your business and technical skills are crucial in this role. Spending excessive time in meetings, committees, or administrative tasks; we’ve streamlined management to allow you to concentrate on hands‑on work that creates business value. Proposing high‑level strategies without actionable implementation plans; your insights must derive from product‑level understanding. Vice President Of Product Engineering Key Responsibilities Function as the CTO for one or more educational products, managing core competencies and enhancing business value through strategic execution and decision‑making. Basic Requirements Profound experience and interest in data‑driven learning science. Over 7 years of experience making critical architecture and design decisions on software projects, including the application of architecture patterns and significant open‑source technologies. More than 2 years of experience in design decisions involving cloud computing services, primarily AWS. At least 4 years of experience in roles with full technical and delivery ownership of a revenue‑generating product. Experience developing product features that leverage Generative AI. Proficiency in using Generative AI to streamline work processes. About 2 Hour Learning Education is broken, but 2 Hour Learning proves it doesn’t have to be. They’re tearing down the outdated one‑size‑fits‑all model and replacing it with AI‑driven personalized learning that helps kids master academics in just two hours a day. With students consistently ranking in the top 1‑2% nationally and the top 20% achieving an astonishing 6.5x growth, they prove that smarter learning is possible. Working with Us This is a full‑time (40 hours per week) long‑term position, immediately available, and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level is $200 USD per hour, which equates to $400,000 USD per year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The