VP, Engineering

Job Overview:

The Vice President of Engineering is responsible for driving innovation and implementing best-in-class technological approaches to ensure seamless development, user experience, DevOps, and cloud hosting operations to support our literacy products for students and educators. The ideal candidate has a proven track record fostering collaboration across disciplines to build and scale technology architectures, QA processes,  and infrastructure.. We are looking for someone adept at driving their organization to achieve scalable portfolio growth, capable of creating lasting impact on student performance and educator effectiveness, and who excels at sharing ideas in a straightforward, compelling manner to gain commitment from others. This role will have a highly-visible presence amongst executives, company stakeholders, and customers.

The Vice President will:

• Serve as a member of the Product Leadership team reporting directly to the SVP, Product
• Apply the needs of Engineering & Infrastructure to the overall operating budget while upholding fiscal responsibility and accountability for all respective cost centers
• Utilize in-depth technical knowledge and experience to scale development processes to meet the needs of a fast-evolving competitive landscape
• Deliver key business communication with the ability to answer subject matter questions or concerns in a clear and broadly understandable fashion.
• Work alongside Senior Leadership to ensure the company remains internally efficient.

Job Responsibilities:

Technology & Engineering Leadership

• Drive the adoption of emerging technologies by continuously evaluating and integrating leading solutions to enhance the organization’s technological capabilities and maintain a competitive advantage
• Drive the organizational evolution to utilize AI/Machine learning to provide industry-leading data and educator insights for personalized learning
• Implement forward-thinking development strategies that align with long term goals to drive innovation, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure codebases.
• Guide best practices in agile development methodologies (SAFe), improving collaboration between engineering, design, and infrastructure teams.
• Oversee end-to-end software development processes from architecture to deployment.
• Partner with leadership to target and align technology investments with business objectives.
• Identify and drive opportunities to enhance the work products of core technology teams in 3D animation, Speech Recognition, and AI/ML

DevOps & Hosting Strategy

• Oversee DevOps and cloud hosting, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment and iteration.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Advocate infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Steer site reliability engineering (SRE) efforts to minimize downtime and improve system resilience.
• Ensure security best practices and compliance with industry regulations.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering, design, and DevOps teams.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
• Work closely with engineering, IT, and executive leadership to drive technology-forward strategies.
• Present infrastructure and design strategies to stakeholders and leadership.

Performance & Optimization

• Lead and manage the optimization of outsourcing critical path work to industry leading third-party vendors to maximize the capacity of internal resources and focus
• Define and track key technology performance metrics, including system uptime, load times, and security posture.
• Utilize data-driven decision-making to improve engineering efficiency, quality, deployment, and infrastructure costs.
• Drive continuous improvement through testing, monitoring, and iterative enhancements.

Job Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in EdTech software development/DevOps, with at least 5+ years in a Vice President or equivalent executive leadership position.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication and collaboration with both business and technical teams.
• Exceptional administrative business acumen, including budget management, outsourcing management, and structured scaling of teams and processes
• Experience in K12 industry strongly preferred, SaaS business experience beneficial
• Background in cloud security, compliance, and disaster recovery planning.
• Knowledge of frontend and backend best practices, experience in both Web and Native App development; SAFe Certification or experience preferred
• Exceptional leadership and team-building experience
• Advanced degree in a related field is a plus.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit https://www.lexialearning.com/.

Remote First Work Environment 

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.