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# Senior Product Designer, Cybersecurity at Clever

- **Company:** Clever
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR in the Continental, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://www.clever.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8224363

## Job description

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at [clever.com](https://www.clever.com/)anytime.

## About the Team & Opportunity

Clever owns authentication for education — every moment a student, teacher, or staff member proves who they are, and the devices they do it on. That scope keeps growing: beyond SSO and MFA, we're now figuring out how AI agents authenticate and what they should be allowed to reach, and how schools manage access across devices. This role brings design judgment across that whole space, working horizontally with the teams involved to create a coherent login experience, while also defining the next set of problems to solve. It's a chance to help shape what authentication means for the EdTech industry.

## How You’ll Make an Impact

- The problem you'll solve: Authentication in education spans several fast-moving areas — human login, AI agent access, and device-level identity — each raising its own design questions. This role brings one coherent design point of view across all of it, so the experience holds together even as the underlying problems are still taking shape.
- Who you'll partner with: Product and engineering leads across the teams working on authentication, plus the broader design team.
- What success looks like: A consistent, well-considered authentication experience even as new surfaces like agent access get added.

Key projects you'll lead: Design direction for how authentication extends into new territory — agent access, device-level identity — while keeping the core login experience coherent as it grows.

## What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves):

- Experience designing complex, security products — cybersecurity, identity/authentication
- Experience operating horizontally across multiple teams or product areas, setting consistent design direction without owning every team directly
- Direct experience mentoring or coaching other designers, with a specific approach to helping them grow
- Strong cross-functional collaboration experience, partnering closely with product and engineering across several teams at once
- Comfort using AI tools to prototype and accelerate design work
- Strong written and verbal communication

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):

- Background in K-12 EdTech
- Familiarity with identity protocols such as OAuth/OIDC or SSO/MFA standards
- Experience designing or shipping AI-driven product features

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 $149,000-$175,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it's between $165,000-$192,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

## Benefits & Perks

- 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. Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

## About Clever

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clever provides an identity and single sign-on platform that securely connects K-12 schools with the digital learning applications they use.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Kahoot! AS)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources (CEO is Trish Sparks)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Education technology (EdTech) – identity and access management for K-12 schools.
- Target customers: K-12 school districts, individual schools, and educational application providers (B2B / B2G).
- Mission: To connect every student to a world of learning by advancing technology that works for students everywhere.

## Products & Services
- **[Clever Identity Platform]**: A SaaS platform that offers single sign‑on, identity management, data integration, and security for schools. It enables students and teachers to access over 700 educational applications through one secure login, while giving districts control over data and privacy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $35.0 M (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $43.3 M across three rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Kahoot! AS. More than 111,000 schools use Clever, including 95 of the 100 largest U.S. districts. Partners with 700+ educational applications.
- **Growth Signals**: 232 employees (+17.2% YoY), operates in 11 countries (including Brazil, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, Italy), and serves 60% of U.S. students monthly.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep network effects: being the de facto identity layer for K-12 education in the U.S. makes switching costly for districts and app providers.
- Strong security and privacy focus tailored specifically to school data regulations.
- One integration that works with the vast majority of edtech apps, reducing friction for schools.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the identity platform to cover more use cases (classroom engagement, data security) and broadening international presence (already in 11 countries).
- Continuing to build a secure, scalable infrastructure that supports digital learning for millions of students.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Flexible model – work from anywhere in the continental U.S. plus Hawaii, or from the San Francisco HQ.
- **Culture**: Collaborative, lifelong learning environment with a strong emphasis on inclusion and belonging. Employee resource groups include Women @ Clever, PoC @ Clever, LGBTQIA+ @ Clever, and many more.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, equity for all, flexible PTO (encouraged minimum 3 weeks/year), 100% paid medical/dental/vision for employee (70% for dependents), 401K, generous parental leave, $1,000 yearly learning stipend, and annual company retreats (Winter Rally).
- **Engineering culture**: “Don’t trust the textbook” – encourages questioning, experimentation, and collaboration. Mentorship programs available. Focus on data security and solving tough technical challenges.

## Sources
1. [clever.com – Careers](https://www.clever.com/about/careers)
2. [clever.com – About](https://www.clever.com/about)
3. [clever.com – Homepage](https://www.clever.com/)
4. [linkedin.com – Clever Inc.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clever-inc-)
5. [clever.com – Engineering](https://www.clever.com/about/engineering)

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