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About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- People Leadership: 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to build high-impact teams — mentoring and coaching engineers at all levels while holding a consistently high bar
- AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflow, productivity, and code quality
- Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on Defining Clever's Engineering Culture )
- Operational Excellence: Experience with operational change management and process improvement
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage distributed, remote teams while building alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
- Inclusive Leadership: A deep commitment to building diverse and inclusive teams where every voice is heard
More about this role
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 anytime.
About the Team & Opportunity
The Classroom Experience team at Clever builds the digital gateway to the classroom. As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for our most visible products, including the Clever Portal—the daily starting point for millions of students and teachers. We are hiring a leader to help us expand our reach from the classroom into new frontiers like browser extensions and beyond, including future explorations of resource access outside our core products. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will manage the...
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