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 technical product leader with deep engineering expertise who is driven to redefine education using artificial intelligence? 2 Hour Learning seeks an architect to spearhead the evolution of our AI-driven learning platform. This position demands someone with the technical discipline to function as a CTO, the strategic product insight to catalyze transformational outcomes, and the commitment to deploy those capabilities toward unlocking student achievement at scale.
Most organizations layer AI onto conventional educational frameworks as though it were an add-on. At 2 Hour Learning, we have pursued a fundamentally different path: we have reconstructed the school model from its foundation, leveraging AI and learning science to eliminate the limitations inherent in traditional classrooms. Our students do not merely progress — they excel, earning multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, demonstrating multi-year academic advancement in a single year, and routinely surpassing their own benchmarks. We have demonstrated that when AI serves as the foundational operating system for learning, student performance reaches extraordinary levels.
This is not a conventional product management position centered on user feedback cycles or gradual feature rollouts. This is an executive-level technical product ownership role in which you will control the architecture, technical direction, and AI integration across our complete learning infrastructure. You will be accountable for the critical technical tradeoffs that keep our products lean, scalable, and relentlessly oriented toward elevating student results. You will approach problems with the mindset of a CTO while executing with the agility of a product entrepreneur, fusing engineering rigor with learning science principles to deliver continuous innovation.
If you are prepared to drive the technical transformation of education and possess the operational 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 expertise in education products to inform strategic direction
- Creating technical specifications that resolve critical technical choices and emphasize simplicity, operational efficiency, and sustainable architecture
- Deploying generative AI capabilities to automate and optimize engineering workflows, consistent with the strategic objective of minimizing manual intervention
What you will NOT be doing
- Pure personnel oversight; your technical judgment and business insight will be the defining elements of this role
- Spending time in meetings, committees, or administrative overhead; we have streamlined management processes so you can concentrate on delivering business impact through direct contribution
- Abstract strategies disconnected from execution; your guidance must be grounded in product-level understanding
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the CTO for one or more education products, taking ownership of core technical capabilities and generating business value through flawless execution and strategic judgment
Candidate requirements
- 7+ years of experience driving critical architecture and design decisions on software projects, including the application of architecture design patterns or major open source technologies
- 4+ years of experience in roles with complete technical and delivery accountability for a revenue-generating product
- Experience leveraging AI agents to design, implement, and test software products or features
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