Director of Product Architecture, 2 Hour Learning (Remote) - 400,000/year USD

Are you a deeply technical product leader who wants to be at the forefront of reinventing education through AI? 2 Hour Learning is looking for a technical architect to lead the modernization of our AI-powered learning ecosystem. This is a role for someone who has the technical rigor to act as a CTO, the product vision to drive transformational change, and the passion to apply those skills to unleash student potential at unprecedented scale.

Most companies bolt AI onto traditional education models like an afterthought. At 2 Hour Learning, we've done something entirely different: we've rebuilt the school model from the ground up, using AI and learning science to completely shatter the constraints of the traditional classroom. Our students don't just improve — they dominate, achieving multiple 4s and 5s on AP exams, showing multi-year academic growth in a single year, and consistently outperforming their own expectations. We've proven that when AI is used as the core operating system of learning, student achievement explodes.

This is not a traditional product management role focused on customer feedback loops or incremental feature delivery. This is a technical product ownership role at the executive level, where you will own the architecture, technical strategy, and AI integration of our entire learning system. You'll be responsible for making the hard technical tradeoffs that ensure our products are lean, scalable, and ruthlessly focused on improving student outcomes. You will think like a CTO but move like a product entrepreneur, blending engineering excellence with learning science insights to continuously drive breakthroughs.

If you are ready to lead the technical reinvention of education itself and you have the executional grit to match that ambition, we encourage you to apply. This is your opportunity to define the future of learning.

What You Will Be Doing

• Maintaining and demonstrating deep education product expertise to guide strategic decisions
• Developing technical specifications that make important technical decisions and prioritize simplicity, efficiency, and long-term viability
• Implementing generative AI technologies to automate and streamline engineering processes, aligning with the strategic vision of reducing manual labor

What You Won't Be Doing

• Pure people management; your business and technical acumen will play critical roles in this position
• Wasting your time in meetings, committees, and administrative tasks; we have automated management overhead so you can focus on creating business value through hands-on work
• High-level strategies without implementation guidelines; your recommendations must be based on product-level insights

Director Of Product Architecture Key Responsibilities

• Act as the CTO of one or more education products, owning core competencies and driving business value through seamless execution and strategic decision-making

Basic Requirements

• Deep experience and interest in data-driven learning science
• 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
• 2+ years of experience making design decisions involving the use of cloud computing services (primarily AWS)
• 4+ years of experience in positions with full technical and delivery ownership on a revenue-generating product
• Experience building product features that make advanced use of Generative AI
• Experience using Generative AI to simplify work processes

About 2 Hour Learning
Education is broken, but 2 Hour Learning is proving 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're proving that smarter learning is possible. At 2 Hour Learning, it's talent and performance that matter.
They offer a dynamic, on-campus and remote-friendly environment where innovators, educators, and AI specialists can be a part of fixing a broken school system.

2 Hour Learning is reprogramming learning for the AI era.
Here's How They're Fixing It.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you

Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5590-DE-COUNTRY-DirectorofProd.001