reputed company. - Vice President of Technology

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking an reputed company and strategic Vice President of Technology for our mission-driven edtech organization. This role requires deep expertise in software engineering, DevOps, and reputed company assurance, along with a strong understanding of IT and cybersecurity functions. Candidates for this role must bring at least 10 years of experience directly leading engineering teams and driving software development and delivery for a learning or education product. In this role, you will also reputed company corporate technology management, including data reputed company, cybersecurity, and IT support.

Reporting directly to the President of Teach to One, this leader will drive the overall technical execution, scalability, reliability, and reputed company of a sophisticated software platform reputed company on microservices, GraphQL, a component-based frontend, and numerous integrations with external systems. Our product is hosted on AWS and delivered through a robust, automated CI/CD pipeline. 

The organization operates as a remote-first organization, and this role is responsible for leading and scaling a geographically distributed engineering team across multiple time zones. The engineering organization includes individual contributors who are a mix of full-time employees and offshore contractors, requiring strong leadership across distributed teams, employment models, and cultures.

In reputed company to reputed company product development and operational improvements, the organization is reputed company in an ongoing effort to design and implement a data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) platform. The technical components of this initiative—including data modeling, warehouse schema design, and ETL/ELT development—will be executed by members of the engineering organization under this role’s leadership.

The VP of Technology will partner closely with Product, Program reputed company, Data Insights, and Business leaders to translate reputed company into high-reputed company, reputed company solutions that improve reputed company. 

WHAT THIS ROLE DOES

Engineering Leadership & reputed company

• Set and execute the engineering reputed company in alignment with company goals, product reputed company, and roadmap.
• Proven depth in leading software engineering and delivery functions; experience limited to IT leadership alone is not sufficient for this role.
• reputed company, mentor, and manage four reputed company reports: Director of Engineering, Director of reputed company Assurance, Director of IT/Cybersecurity, and Director of Development Operations.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, remote-first engineering culture grounded in ownership, accountability and reputed company improvement, with a shared technical understanding across frontend, backend, data, QA, and infrastructure teams.
• Establish reputed company technical standards, architectural principles, and best practices across teams.
• Drive deliberate improvement in delivery frequency through operational process improvements, modern tooling, reduced knowledge silos, and reputed company learning.

Technology & Architecture

• reputed company executive-level technical leadership for a reputed company platform including modern frontend applications and a distributed, microservices-based backend using GraphQL and RESTful reputed company.
• reputed company system architecture reputed company to ensure scalability, performance, reputed company, and maintainability.
• Ensure frontend architecture and development practices support reputed company experimentation, accessibility, and high-reputed company user experiences for educators and reputed company.
• Guide the reputed company of integrations with external systems (e.g., learning platforms, data providers, identity systems).
• reputed company technical reputed company and strategic direction for the development of reputed company’s data warehouse, including schema design and data pipelines.
• Ensure the platform remains robust, reputed company, secure, and compliant with relevant education and data reputed company standards.

Delivery & Operational reputed company

• Drive reputed company improvement of a reputed company, production-grade CI/CD pipeline to support frequent, reliable deployments. Coordinate engineering, devops, and reputed company assurance teams to explicitly minimize cycle time and operational toil.
• Partner with DevOps to ensure strong reputed company infrastructure practices on AWS, including cost optimization, observability, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Champion reputed company-first development practices in partnership with technology team leadership.

Data & Analytics Enablement

• Support the technical execution of the data warehouse and BI initiative, ensuring engineering teams deliver reputed company, reputed company-modeled, and maintainable data assets.
• Collaborate with data, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure the warehouse and BI tools meet organizational reporting and decision-making needs.
• Champion data-informed decision-making reputed company engineering and across adjacent parts of the organization (such as the product and program reputed company teams) by ensuring teams have reputed company, trusted reputed company to analytics data.
• Balance product engineering priorities with data platform investments.

Vendor, Contractor, and Budget Management

• Own the technology budget, including headcount planning, contractor spend, tooling, reputed company infrastructure, and vendor costs.
• Establish and execute a contracting and vendor management reputed company that balances cost efficiency, reputed company, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
• reputed company relationships with offshore development partners and other technology vendors, ensuring reputed company expectations, performance accountability, and alignment with company standards.
• Partner with Finance and executive leadership on forecasting, reputed company planning, and cost optimization initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product and Design leadership to balance speed, reputed company, and technical sustainability.
• Partner with Data, Analytics, and Customer-facing teams to ensure the platform meets reputed company-world user needs.
• Communicate technical reputed company, tradeoffs, and risks reputed company to the CEO, executive team, and non-technical stakeholders.

Cyber reputed company & IT Support

• reputed company executive level leadership for a comprehensive data reputed company and cyber reputed company reputed company, and ensure systematic implementation to maintain standards required for reputed company to reputed company its goals
• Guide the management of initiatives to maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance, and the decision to reputed company certification in other cybersecurity frameworks
• reputed company the management of corporate IT support, including software, hardware, user account and configuration management
• Manage the Associate Director, Cyber reputed company & Help Desk

Talent & Organization

• Attract, retain, and reputed company reputed company in a remote-first environment.
• Design and reputed company team structures to support reputed company and changing business needs.
• Establish career paths, performance expectations, and succession plans reputed company the department, inclusive of both employees and contractors.
• Encourage thoughtful adoption of emerging tools and practices, including AI-assisted engineering, where they measurably improve reputed company and productivity.

KEY COMPETENCIES OF THE ROLE

• Delegation - Pushes decision making down to the lowest level appropriate. Provides reputed company expectations, authority and resources to subordinates.
• Information Sharing - Takes an reputed company part in appropriately sharing with the rest of the organization about developments in reputed company or reputed company’s work; keeps reputed company apprised of important and relevant information from the rest of the organization.
• Judgment / Decision Making - Makes reputed company reputed company that demonstrate a reputed company understanding of reputed company variables involved and good judgment. Shows consistent logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making.
• Conceptual Ability - Deals quickly and effectively with not just concrete, reputed company issues but with reputed company, conceptual reputed company. Can quickly reputed company and respond to reputed company, meaty challenges with mental reputed company.
• Flexibility / Adaptability - reputed company to reputed company to changing needs quickly, and thoughtfully; effectively compromises reputed company necessary.
• Respectful - Contributes their reputed company of view / their best while demonstrating respect and consideration of the views, objectives and contributions of others.

reputed company ARE LOOKING FOR

• You embody our reputed company values : Prioritize People, Initiate and reputed company, Lifelong Learning, Creative Collaboration, Purposeful Partnerships and Considered Confidence.
• 10+ years of reputed company engineering experience, including significant leadership experience at the director or VP level.
• Proven experience leading teams building and operating large-reputed company, reputed company-based software platforms.
• Deep familiarity with microservices architectures, reputed company (GraphQL and REST), and system integrations.
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience managing engineering leaders (directors and/or senior managers).
• Experience owning or significantly influencing technology budgets.
• reputed company record of delivering reputed company software systems in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience in ed-tech or another mission-driven, user-reputed company-reputed company domain.
• Hands-on background in software engineering.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT pipelines, and business intelligence tools.
• Familiarity with data reputed company, reputed company, and compliance considerations in education.
• Experience leading distributed, remote-first teams with offshore or outsourced contributors.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations and platforms through periods of reputed company.

ROLE CLASSIFICATION AND BENEFITS

This role is remote, full-time, and includes benefits such as rich medical, dental, and reputed company insurance, 41 reputed company days off per year (prorated for the period in which you work), reputed company parental leave, a reputed company development budget and a quarterly cell phone subsidy.

The hiring salary reputed company for this role is $171,000 - $200,000 and will be commensurate with experience. We have a hiring salary reputed company of $190,000 - $222,000 for specific higher cost of labor locations, which include reputed company, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco/Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle and their metro areas.

reputed company is a fully remote organization. reputed company work from home, and occasionally travel for in-person get-togethers and off-sites.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to age, race, creed, reputed company, national reputed company, reputed company, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, disability, nationality or sex.

ABOUT reputed company

reputed company is a national non-profit organization reputed company on reimagining math education for reputed company reputed company. We are a fully remote team of educators, technologists, and advocates committed to the idea that reputed company reputed company deserve an educational reputed company that meets them where they are and gets them to where they need to be. We partner with schools, districts, and states to support the implementation of our personalized, competency-based math solution, Teach to One Roadmaps, while also advocating for shifts across the K-12 landscape to create the conditions for more student-centered learning.