Associate VP, Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $200k / year

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ClassLink

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2007-03

Education • Cybersecurity • SaaS

ClassLink is a company providing educational technology solutions that focus on identity and access management for schools. Their services include identity and access management, learning analytics, and cybersecurity with features such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, tailored for K-12 and higher education institutions. ClassLink aims to create a secure and efficient digital learning environment, enhancing education through improved access to technological resources and data-driven insights.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the long-term engineering strategy, ensuring engineering capabilities align with the company's product vision, architectural direction, AI-first strategy, and business objectives. • Develop a multi-year engineering roadmap that advances software delivery, engineering productivity, AI-enabled development, and organizational scalability. • Champion the evolution of agentic engineering and modern software engineering practices, positioning the organization to leverage emerging technologies responsibly and effectively. • Align engineering investments, organizational priorities, and technology initiatives with long-term business growth and customer success. • Provide executive oversight of Software Engineering, Agentic Engineering, and Test Engineering, ensuring consistent engineering excellence across the Development organization. • Establish engineering standards, software development methodologies, AI-assisted engineering practices, and quality expectations that enable scalable, secure, and maintainable software delivery. • Partner with Architecture leadership to ensure engineering execution consistently aligns with enterprise architecture, technical standards, and long-term technology strategy. • Monitor engineering performance metrics that measure delivery predictability, engineering productivity, software quality, developer experience, AI adoption, and operational effectiveness. • Drive continuous improvement by advancing engineering processes, AI-assisted development workflows, automation, testing strategies, and release practices across all engineering teams. • Partner with Product Management, Product Operations, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, UX, and executive leadership to align engineering priorities with company strategy and customer outcomes. • Hire, coach, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Agentic Engineering Leads, Test Engineering Leaders, and other engineering leaders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience. • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, software development, or engineering leadership within a technology organization. • 7+ years of progressive leadership experience managing engineering organizations, engineering managers, or multiple software development teams. • Demonstrated success leading high-performing engineering organizations that deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality software in Agile environments. • Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, software development lifecycles, quality engineering, CI/CD, and engineering operational excellence. • Experience implementing AI-enabled software development, agentic engineering practices, developer productivity initiatives, and intelligent engineering workflows. • Strong understanding of software architecture principles, cloud-native development, DevSecOps, testing strategies, observability, and modern engineering platforms. • Demonstrated experience establishing engineering standards, development practices, quality expectations, and engineering governance across multiple teams. • Proven ability to align engineering execution with product strategy, architectural direction, and business objectives while influencing executive stakeholders. • Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, engineering modernization, and cross-functional technology initiatives. • Excellent communication, collaboration, strategic planning, and organizational leadership skills. • Ability to remain stationary for extended periods while working with computers and participating in meetings.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off : 4+ weeks of vacation and 13+ paid holidays • Parental Leave : 12 weeks fully paid for all parents • Retirement : 401(k) with 0.5:1 company match • Comprehensive Health Coverage : Medical, dental, and vision plans • Insurance : Company-paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability, plus voluntary options including supplemental life, accident, and pet insurance • Volunteer Time Off: Give back through ClassLink Cares paid volunteer days • Lifelong Learning: Tuition reimbursement for continued education • Growth & Development: Coaching and internal programs to support career and personal growth • Supportive Culture: A workplace that values curiosity, compassion, and continuous learning • Connection & Community: Annual company retreats and team events with bright, fun coworkers