SVP of Technical Product Management
$400,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks ($200 USD/hour)

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Description

Are you a technical expert who has built amazing architecture for games, but now craves a role where you could use your skills for a more meaningful cause? Do you wonder why educational organizations still follow teaching methods from ancient history and miss out on the most advanced technologies? If you want to be one of the pioneers to change that, we believe we have something for you.

GT School is building an online community focusing on the most underserved customer base in US education - Gifted & Talented kids. GT School applies a winning combination of technology, coaching, and community to deliver motivation by the boatload. Education is one of the last industries still largely untouched by technology, and our goal is to pioneer the creation of the education metaverse and keep students engaged and invested.

This role is essential to the success of our revolution. You will build the education metaverse by architecting a portfolio of products. Your focus will be on making strategic technical decisions instead of worrying about business, legal, or cost-related details.

If you are ready to shape the future of education by tackling some of the most important problems that aren't even spotted yet, then this is the role for you.

What you will be doing

  • Creating new product specs: Conducting research on the requirements, analyzing existing data structures and product architecture, making important technical decisions that specify how to boost our products
  • Coaching: Reviewing content regarding data structures, APIs, and module breakdowns, and providing the authors with written, technical, and actionable feedback to improve the quality of their work

What you will NOT be doing

  • You will not be making any decisions based primarily on saving money. This role makes strategic technical design decisions.
  • You will not be participating in daily scrum meetings, making low-level decisions, or debugging. This role provides clear leadership for our engineering organization to execute on.

Key responsibilities

Building simple, yet elegant architecture for our adaptive and mastery-based education applications through important technical decisions that will drive our product roadmaps for the next 3-5 years

Candidate requirements

  • Experience as a senior decision-maker regarding technical design decisions at a dev organization with 50+ people
  • 7+ years experience making important architecture/software design decisions in the gaming industry
  • 2+ years of experience making design decisions involving cloud technologies (primarily AWS)
  • 2+ years of experience shipping production-quality code

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How it works

Applying for a role? Here’s what to expect.

We’ve curated a series of steps that take the guesswork (and cognitive bias) out of recruiting the best person.

Pass Cognitive Aptitude Test.
STEP 1

Pass Cognitive Aptitude Test.

Pass English Proficiency Test.
STEP 2

Pass English Proficiency Test.

Prove Real-World Job Skills.
STEP 3

Prove Real-World Job Skills.

Ace An Interview Or Two.
STEP 4

Ace An Interview Or Two.

Accept Job Offer.
STEP 5

Accept Job Offer.

Celebrate!
STEP 6

Celebrate!

Frequently asked questions

About Crossover

What you will learn

We believe in continuous growth and strive for constant improvement. As part of our team, you will learn new technologies, products, and industries daily, and our comprehensive suite of playbooks will equip you with the foundation to develop and enhance your existing expertise. 

We also provide a unique CTO Remote Camp for all new hires. This full-time, fully-paid training program covers all of the unique aspects of our Cloud Architecture and Design approach. You will get daily feedback to accelerate learning and growth far beyond typical classrooms or training programs throughout your training. Our curriculum includes several bite-sized training videos explaining how we design great software. Here’s an example of how to make and validate Important Technical Decisions.

Work examples

How do you enhance an application that is expensive to maintain? We believe that before adding features to a product, it is vital to ensure that it has a simple and strong core. When we acquire a product, we challenge ourselves to rebuild it entirely using today's cloud services and patterns in under 5,000 lines of code. This challenge helps us quickly get to the core and identify all the gems that can't be replaced with off-the-shelf software and services.

Our approach begins with writing the spec to build the existing product as-is. This "Technical Teardown Spec" aims to document what is core and why all the important technical decisions were made. Sometimes, historical decisions are made for great reasons that still hold true today. Often, we'd do things differently. While we write the teardown spec, we inject our opinions and insights alongside the facts we've learned. 

Once the technical teardown is complete, we write the rebuild spec that describes the important decisions necessary to rebuild the product in 5,000 lines of code.

These are examples of specs our organization has produced for Sococo:

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Why Crossover

Recruitment sucks. So we’re fixing it.

The Olympics of work

The Olympics of work

It’s super hard to qualify—extreme quality standards ensure every single team member is at the top of their game.

Premium pay for premium talent

Premium pay for premium talent

Over 50% of new hires double or triple their previous pay. Why? Because that’s what the best person in the world is worth.

Shortlist by skills, not bias

Shortlist by skills, not bias

We don’t care where you went to school, what color your hair is, or whether we can pronounce your name. Just prove you’ve got the skills.