Principal Product Architect $400,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
Are you a technically rigorous product leader eager to pioneer the AI-driven transformation of education? 2 Hour Learning seeks a technical architect to spearhead the evolution of our AI-powered learning platform. This position demands someone with the engineering depth to function as a CTO, the strategic product vision to catalyze transformational innovation, and the dedication to leverage these capabilities to unlock student achievement at scale never before seen.
Most organizations add AI to conventional education frameworks as a superficial enhancement. At 2 Hour Learning, we've taken a fundamentally different approach: we've reconstructed the entire school paradigm from first principles, leveraging AI and learning science to obliterate the limitations of the traditional classroom. Our students don't merely advance — they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP examinations, demonstrating multi-year academic progression within a single year, and regularly surpassing their own performance expectations. We have validated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system for learning, student performance accelerates exponentially.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on user feedback cycles or iterative feature rollouts. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role, where you will control the architecture, technical direction, and AI integration across our complete learning ecosystem. You'll be accountable for navigating the difficult technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and laser-focused on enhancing student outcomes. You will reason like a CTO but execute like a product entrepreneur, synthesizing engineering rigor with learning science principles to consistently deliver breakthroughs.
If you are prepared to drive the technical reinvention of education and possess the operational discipline to realize that vision, we invite you to apply. This is your chance to architect the future of learning.
What you will be doing
- Building and applying comprehensive education product expertise to inform strategic decisions
- Creating technical specifications that resolve critical technical decisions and emphasize simplicity, efficiency, and sustainable long-term architecture
- 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; your technical and business expertise will be the central assets in this role
- Squandering time in meetings, committees, and administrative overhead; we have automated managerial tasks so you can concentrate on delivering business value through direct execution
- High-level strategies disconnected from execution; your guidance must emerge from product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO for one or more education products, owning foundational capabilities and generating business impact through flawless execution and strategic leadership
Candidate requirements
- 7+ years of experience making the important architecture and design decisions on software projects, such as the application of architecture design patterns or significant open source technologies
- 4+ years of experience in positions 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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