VP, Innovation and Engineering

Overview

Position Overview:

Our Company. Time4

Learning, a Cambium® Learning Group Brand, offers award-winning online curriculum, resources, and programs for at-home use and within non-traditional learning settings. Time4

Learning has three major brands - its flagship product, Time4

Learning, an online core curriculum and supplemental program for students in grades PreK-12th grade and Brightspire Virtual School, an accredited online school for students in grades 6-12. Time4

Learning is experiencing a period of rapid growth and working to expand our home education product line and our reach into new and evolving learning environments.

Our Team. Time4

Learning is a remote-first group with team members from coast to coast. As a long-standing leader in the home education space, T4L attracts a diverse group of talented people who create delightful learning experiences for students and supportive resources and tools for parents and teachers. Qualified candidates bring curiosity, humility, and an open mind for the diverse and unique ways in which students can learn.

Our Culture. The T4L team values diversity of thought, experience, and approach so that we can offer the best personalized learning on the market. We work together collaboratively and with purpose, but don’t take ourselves too seriously. We establish rapport through monthly team building activities and cross-functional projects that offer staff opportunities to work with people who have different skill sets and perspectives.

Vision for This Position. The Vice President, Innovation and Engineering, is a visionary and change maker responsible for driving innovation to support growth and efficiency across the entire organization. Reporting to the President, this role leads the development of scalable, future-ready technology solutions for ecommerce, business operations, content creation, user experiences, and platform systems. The VP is passionate about AI and brings enthusiasm and expertise to their leadership of a SaaS development team.

Innovation Strategy & Engineering Leadership

• Define and execute an AI-focused innovation strategy aligning technology with business and financial goals.
• Drive adoption across the organization of emerging technologies and AI/ML to enhance technological capabilities, business systems, and personalization.
• Lead architecture of flexible, extensible solutions; hands-on oversight of .NET (C#) platforms and Azure-native services. Familiarity with Microsoft identity & security patterns.

Learning and Content Systems

• In partnership with Product, incrementally improve LMS architecture and administration.
• Lead ongoing development of AI-driven CMS in collaboration with content/curriculum team, supporting structured academic content creation for grades PreK-12.
• Ensure legacy content is refactored into reusable formats that support omnichannel publishing and personalization.
• Partner with content/curriculum teams to maintain a robust taxonomy and metadata schema for all data, and develop models that support academic standards.

E-commerce and Business Systems

• Oversee the ongoing enhancements of an e-commerce platform with theme-based storefront (Shopify) for marketing and selling purposes that supports customized digital marketing, sales, and renewal experiences
• Partner with Marketing and Product staff and external Shopify developers to build end-to-end customer experiences aligned with key business goals.
• Own the end-to-end subscription and renewal architecture across Shopify and the subscription app/systems stack, ensuring reliable customer experiences, accurate financial reconciliation and measurable SLAs for retention-impacting flow.
• Provide technical oversight and leadership for the entire enterprise system and collaborate with shared services on security and privacy requirements.

Workflow Optimization & Operations

• Collaborate with other R&D leaders to design and implement workflows that create efficiencies for staff members, and foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Ensure operational excellence through process optimization/automation, resource management, data-driven decision-making, and tool integration, leveraging foundational practices in SAFe and modern AI/automation tooling.
• Advocate for quality by ensuring tools and workflows meet business, pedagogical, and product needs.

Cross-Functional and Vendor Collaboration

• Partner with leaders across the organization to understand areas in need of innovation and redesign of existing technologies, security, privacy, and compliance in a regulated environment.
• Identify and outsource critical path work to industry leading third-party vendors to maximize the capacity of internal resources and their skillset.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on innovation opportunities and technical feasibility.

Leadership Competencies

• Leadership Presence: Ability to comfortably interact with executives and investors, and present to a wide range of audiences including…