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About the Role
Clever is seeking a Vice President of Product Engineering to lead teams building the identity platform for education. You will report to the CTO, partner with the VP of Product, and own engineering's half of product strategy, acting as a visible technical leader with district CIOs and partner CTOs.
Responsibilities
- Lead five product engineering teams comprising approximately 40 engineers.
- Oversee full-stack development on a container-based microservices architecture in AWS using Go, Node, and TypeScript.
- Ensure the platform built for districts and application partners fits together, balancing immediate customer needs with scale, resilience, and security.
- Own the product and engineering roadmap in close partnership with the VP of Product.
- Work alongside Infrastructure, Data, and Security platform teams.
- Engage directly with customers, including CIOs and CTOs at school districts, and CTOs and chief customer officers at application partners.
- Lead the application of AI across the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, review, and release.
- Set technical direction and architecture for Clever's products.
- Address complex systems to maintain their integrity.
- Represent Clever in customer business reviews, industry events, and education technology standards groups.
Requirements
- Technical leadership experience, with the ability to review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
- Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization of roughly 30 or more engineers through managers.
- Proven ability to hire and develop managers, and build an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Experience leading an engineering organization in applying AI across the software development lifecycle, with demonstrable results.
- Experience building and operating external, customer-facing SaaS products with high availability and resilience requirements.
- Experience partnering with a product leader as a peer to set strategy and roadmap.
- Experience working directly with customers' technical decision makers, such as CIOs, CTOs, or IT leaders, and translating input into product and architecture decisions.
- Ability to travel one to two times per quarter for company and customer meetings.
- Ability to clearly explain technical strategy and tradeoffs to executives, customers, and engineers.
- 10+ years as an engineering leader, including at least 3+ years at the director level or higher.
Skills
- Identity and access management (SSO, identity lifecycle, directory, rostering, access management)
- Building two-sided platforms, developer ecosystems, or APIs
- Building products for international markets, including adapting to local data privacy rules, languages, and regional requirements
- Experience in edtech, or building for K-12 or higher education institutions
- Hands-on familiarity with AWS, Go, Node, TypeScript, and container-based microservices
- Scaling a platform to millions of daily users in a regulated industry (education, healthcare, finance)
- Participation in industry standards bodies, or representing an engineering organization through talks, writing, or advisory boards
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years as an engineering leader
- 3+ years at the director level or higher
Salary/Compensations
- For candidates living in the United States (excluding NYC and San Francisco, CA): $325,000 - $350,000
- For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA: $340,000 - $375,000
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- Mental healthcare services
- Professional development budget
- Annual company retreat
- Team events
About the Company
- Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning.
- Clever is the leading identity platform for education, used by over 111,000 schools worldwide.
- Clever's layered security solutions protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students.
- Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere.
- Clever is a Kahoot! company.
Equal Opportunity
- Clever believes classrooms and our company should be diverse and inclusive.
- We celebrate actions that build diverse teams, include every voice, and create safe spaces for everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.
- If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.