Head of Technology

What you will be doing:

• Leading the development of a proprietary, child-specific speech recognition technology which includes defining the technical requirements, planning for unique, competitive IP advantages, scoping and project planning
• We are an early-stage startup, so you must have the ability to write and review code, as well as define engineering structure, resources, operations and KPIs as we scale
• Manage security, compliance and data privacy policies, particularly ensuring COPPA complianceLeading an Agile startup environment balancing rapid iteration and prototyping, compliance, processes and long term architectural planning
• You will define the vision for the engineering organization and identify key hires. You will shape the engineering team across all platforms and be a thought leader in the field by applying AI to learning and the education space. As the company scales, you’ll mentor and develop a cross-functional team and instill structure as needed to ensure efficient product delivery
• Strategic planning with the CEO. You’ll begin with a 30/60/90 roadmap while helping to craft the technological vision, while pitching and fundraising to VCs

Must Haves:

• 8+ years experience with recent hands on development and managing a small technical team of engineers (eg ML, ASR, full-stack, mobile) as a Technical Lead
• A proven track record of early stage production AI development - defining a stage zero product and bringing it to market
• Experience working with and/or developing automatic speech recognition technology
• Experience architecting self-provisioning, scalable software platforms that are fully instrumented to provide real-time monitoring, automated incident notifications, and relevant historic and real-time user metrics
• Comfortable articulating complex technology solutions with a broad audience, from the technical team, VCs, product leaders, SMEs in the education space, teachers, and even kids!
• Scrappy and recent pre-seed or seed startup experience
• Positive outlook and a desire to build a company culture with humility, compassion and radical candor
• A Computer Science, Engineering or related technical degree

Nice To Haves:

• An interest in the edtech space and an authentic desire to change the learning outcomes of children or experience in the Edtech industry
• Experience building ASR systems using state-of-the-art technology (e.g., wav2vec2, NeMo)
• Experience developing B2C products
• Ability and experience attracting a solid technical team
• Previous early-stage startup experience or napkin sketch to product launch experience