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Acuity Insights

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Education • Science • Healthcare Insurance

Acuity Insights is a company focused on enhancing the educational experience of applicants and students across various programs. Through its innovative platforms, including One45 and Casper, Acuity provides holistic admissions tools and analytics solutions that aim to identify potential leaders, improve student success, and manage health sciences programs efficiently. Trusted by over 600 educational partners worldwide, Acuity Insights enables institutions to measure applicants' social intelligence, professionalism, and alignment with educational missions, ultimately facilitating a pathway to success from admissions to graduation.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

📚 Education

🔬 Science

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-08

📋 Description

• Own the core of Engineering. Lead Acuity’s platform architecture, engineering operations, and systems design, ensuring technical decisions align with business outcomes and build on the foundation to drive greater speed and scalability. • Drive architectural and AI strategy. Make key decisions on architecture, data, and model design that power our next-generation products and platform capabilities. • Be accountable for delivery. Partner closely with Product to bring ideas to life, Product defines the what, and Engineering defines the how. You’ll own the execution: hiring, planning, technical direction, and delivery excellence. • Champion technical clarity and focus. Strengthen engineering practices and evolve release management, testing, and technical documentation standards. • Foster a culture of learning and innovation. Create a fast, safe environment where experimentation and continuous improvement drive breakthroughs, and where engineers feel empowered to move with confidence and intent. • Develop leaders and teams. Coach Development Managers and Engineers to think in systems, grow in autonomy, and model curiosity, accountability, and progress.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading modern, product-led engineering organizations. You’ve built and scaled high-performing teams in SaaS or platform environments, with demonstrated experience building AI‑powered products and leveraging AI to accelerate engineering workflows. • Architectural and systems fluency. You see the whole system, architecture, data integrity, delivery pipelines, security, performance, and make smart tradeoffs between speed, sustainability, and simplicity. • Technical and product fluency through transformation. You navigate ambiguity with steadiness, bringing clarity to complex decisions and ensuring Product and Engineering move in lockstep. • Coaching and talent development. You grow leaders, strengthening communication, autonomy, accountability, and strategic thinking across your teams. • Cultural leadership. You model curiosity, collaboration, and humility, creating an environment where experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement thrive. • A growth mindset. You adapt quickly, embrace new ways of working, and foster a culture where innovation is sustainable and grounded in responsible, ethical use of AI.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits: Comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one for you and your dependents. • Remote Flexibility: Fully remote within Canada, with the option to work abroad for up to six weeks per year. • Time to rest and reset: Self-directed vacation (typically 4–6 weeks per year) plus a two-week company-wide closure each December. • Long-term financial growth: 2% GRSP matching to support your financial future and long-term security, and stock options so you share in the value you help create. • Investment in your growth: A $3,000 annual learning budget for your development, whether it’s deepening technical mastery, expanding leadership skills, or pursuing curiosity projects.