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Stride, Inc.

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Consulting • Healthcare • Education

Stride, Inc. is an innovative company focused on transforming education through online learning and personalized teaching. It serves a diverse range of learners including K–12 students, adult learners, military families, businesses, and school districts. Stride offers a variety of educational products and services, which include K–12 education solutions, career development programs, and personalized tutoring. With a commitment to social responsibility and inclusion, Stride aims to help learners of all ages achieve their full potential by providing flexible and effective learning opportunities both in online public schools and beyond. Stride is also involved in developing tools for educators and supporting businesses by offering career development options and access to a talented workforce. The company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol LRN.

📋 Description

• Lead Tallo’s engineering and technology organization, developing and supporting the existing team • Manage engineering managers who lead software engineering and QA teams • Set technical direction for Tallo’s career platform and partner with Product, Data, Marketing, Operations, and company leadership • Own the structure and health of the engineering organization • Oversee technical architecture, product roadmap delivery, and long-term platform evolution • Develop engineering culture, team structures, leveling frameworks, development paths, and performance standards • Hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders • Improve sprint cadence, code review standards, release processes, quality assurance, and agile practices • Guide platform and enablement priorities, including shared components, technical debt, CI/CD, and infrastructure • Set and evolve secure, performant, scalable, and sound technical architecture and standards • Own technology safety, security, compliance, and the relationship with parent company Stride • Partner with data and data science teams on data architecture, analytics, methodology, prioritization, and data quality • Partner with Marketing on SEO, organic search, and platform performance work • Partner with Product on roadmap priorities, sequencing, capacity planning, tradeoffs, and delivery blockers • Evaluate and recommend AI/ML use cases, tooling, infrastructure, experimentation, and evaluation approaches • Report to the CEO and collaborate with the Principal PM, Marketing, Data, and Stride leadership • Communicate technical concepts, progress, risks, capacity, and investment tradeoffs to executives • Establish and track engineering metrics covering throughput, quality, reliability, and team health • Directly supervise engineering managers and senior individual contributors • Interview, hire, train, assign, evaluate, reward, discipline, and support employees

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience in software engineering and senior leadership of multi-team organizations • Exceptional hiring ability, including attracting and landing strong engineers and engineering leaders • Proven experience leading engineering managers and building team structures, leveling frameworks, and operating models • Track record of identifying and empowering strong technical leaders • Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth environments • Strong background in modern cloud-based architectures, DevOps practices, and distributed systems • Track record of shipping customer-facing product capabilities, including data-driven or AI-enabled features, into production • Experience owning quality assurance and reliability standards and practices • Experience building secure systems and meeting compliance requirements, ideally for sensitive or young user populations • Experience partnering with data and data science functions, including data architecture and analytics • Excellent people leadership skills, including coaching managers, building performance cultures, and developing technical leaders • Strong strategic thinking paired with a hands-on execution orientation • Comfortable working directly with the team rather than leading from a distance • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with executive-level influence • Ability to clear required background checks • No certificates or licenses required

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive a bonus • Health benefits • Retirement contributions • Paid time off • Virtual work arrangement • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • Equal opportunity employment