[Hiring] Vice President of Product Engineering @Clever

Role Description

Clever is seeking a Vice President of Product Engineering to lead the teams that build what schools and application partners rely on every day. You’ll lead five product engineering teams of about 40 engineers, building across the full stack on a container-based microservices architecture in AWS with Go, Node, and TypeScript. Reporting to the CTO and partnering as a peer with our VP of Product, you’ll own engineering’s half of product strategy and be a visible technical leader with the district CIOs and partner CTOs who choose Clever.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• The problem you’ll solve: Ensure what we build for districts and application partners fits together, balancing immediate customer needs with scale, resilience, and security.
• Who you’ll partner with: Work closely with our VP of Product, Infrastructure, Data, and Security platform teams, and directly with customers including CIOs and CTOs.
• What success looks like: A shared roadmap, predictable delivery, a strong bench of managers, and AI integrated into team processes.
• Key projects you’ll lead: Lead AI application across the software development lifecycle and represent Clever in customer business reviews and industry events.

Qualifications

• Technical leadership: Experience in building software, reviewing designs, and challenging architecture decisions.
• Leading leaders: Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization of 30+ engineers.
• AI in the development lifecycle: Experience applying AI across the software development lifecycle.
• Customer-facing products at scale: Experience building and operating external, customer-facing SaaS products.
• Product partnership: Experience partnering with a product leader to set strategy and roadmap.
• Customer engagement: Experience working directly with customers’ technical decision makers.
• Executive communication: Ability to explain technical strategy and tradeoffs clearly to various stakeholders.
• Experience: 10+ years as an engineering leader, including at least 3+ years at the director level or higher.

Requirements

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in identity and access management.
• Experience building two-sided platforms or APIs.
• Experience in international growth and adapting products to local 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.
• Experience scaling a platform to millions of daily users in regulated industries.
• Participation in industry standards bodies or representing an engineering organization.

Salary Transparency

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $325,000 - $350,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it's between $340,000 - $375,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
• Mental healthcare services
• Professional development budget
• Annual company retreat + team events

Inclusion & Belonging

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.