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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
- 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
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.
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...
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