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# VP of Product Engineering at Clever

- **Company:** Clever
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR in the Continental, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://www.clever.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8255900

## 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 is seeking a Vice President of Product Engineering to lead the teams that build what schools and application partners rely on every day. Clever is a two-sided platform. School districts of every size use us for identity management, SSO, and the portal students and teachers log into each morning, while thousands of edtech applications use our APIs to integrate with those schools. 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: Clever serves two very different customers on one platform. You’ll make sure what we build for districts and for application partners fits together, balancing immediate customer needs with the scale, resilience, and security that students depend on every school day.
- Who you’ll partner with: Your closest partner is our VP of Product, and together you’ll own the product and engineering roadmap. You’ll work alongside our Infrastructure, Data, and Security platform teams, and directly with customers: CIOs and CTOs at school districts, CTOs and chief customer officers at application partners, and their technical staff.
- What success looks like: A roadmap that Product and Engineering own together, predictable delivery on the work that matters most to customers, a strong bench of managers across all five teams, and AI built into how every team plans, builds, tests, and ships. You’ll know it’s working when customers ask for you by name and engineering is shaping strategy, not just receiving it.
- Key projects you’ll lead: You’ll lead how AI is applied across our software development lifecycle, from design and coding through testing, review, and release. You’ll set technical direction and architecture for Clever’s products and dig into our most complex systems to keep them sound. You’ll represent Clever in customer business reviews, at industry events, and in education technology standards groups.

## What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves)

- Technical leadership: You came up building software and can still go deep. You review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
- Leading leaders: Has led a multi-team engineering organization of roughly 30 or more engineers through managers, including hiring and developing those managers and building an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- AI in the development lifecycle: Has led an engineering organization in applying AI across the software development lifecycle, changing how teams design, build, test, and ship, with results you can point to.
- Customer-facing products at scale: Has built and operated external, customer-facing SaaS products with high availability and resilience requirements, not only internal platforms or tooling.
- Product partnership: Has partnered with a product leader as a peer to set strategy and roadmap, not only to execute it.
- Customer engagement: Has worked directly with customers’ technical decision makers, such as CIOs, CTOs, or IT leaders, and turned that input into product and architecture decisions. Able to travel one to two times per quarter for company and customer meetings.
- Executive communication: Can explain technical strategy and tradeoffs clearly to executives, customers, and engineers alike.
- Experience: 10+ years as an engineering leader including at least 3+ years at the director level or higher.

## Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)

- Identity and access management: Experience building SSO, identity lifecycle, directory, rostering, or access management products.
- Two-sided platforms: Experience building platforms, developer ecosystems, or APIs that other companies build on.
- International growth: Experience building products for customers outside the U.S., including adapting them to local data privacy rules, languages, and regional requirements.
- Education: Experience in edtech, or building for K-12 or higher education institutions.
- Our stack: Hands-on familiarity with AWS, Go, Node, TypeScript, and container-based microservices.
- Regulated scale: Has scaled a platform to millions of daily users in a regulated industry such as education, healthcare, or finance.
- Industry presence: Participation in industry standards bodies, or representing an engineering organization through talks, writing, or advisory boards.

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 & 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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