Outschool
Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $225K - $280K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ August 7th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Outschool is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a core engineering team focused on advancing Outschool Memberships and creating innovative solutions for alternative education. This role involves managing engineering projects related to discovery, personalization, and classroom features while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build engaging learning experiences and support the company's mission to inspire kids to love learning.
Highlights
- Lead engineering teams and collaborate with product, design, marketing, and analytics teams.
- Oversee design, development, and evolution of user-centric discovery, personalization, and classroom features.
- Mentor engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
- Drive engineering roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- 7-10+ years as a web application developer with 5+ years managing teams of 5-10 engineers.
- Experience managing senior or staff individual contributors and conducting performance reviews.
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving skills, and ability to prioritize multiple projects.
- Passion for education, accessibility, and applying AI for personalized learning and content discovery.
- Salary range of $225,000 - $280,000 USD reflecting Bay Area market rates.
- Outschool supports comprehensive health benefits, PTO, family leave, professional development budgets, and a diverse, inclusive work culture.
Engineering Manager Full Description
The Company:
Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human. We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.
About The Role:
Join Outschool and help redefine the future of education by leading the engineering team focused on our core initiative. As Engineering Manager, you'll play a critical role in advancing Outschool Memberships and building innovative solutions that make alternative education (Alt-Ed) more accessible and engaging for families and learners everywhere.
This is a unique opportunity to bring both your technical depth and leadership acumen to a high-impact team shaping how families discover, consume, and stay engaged with learning on Outschool. You’ll work at the forefront of experimentation and iteration to build engaging experiences that turn students into lifelong learners.
Outschool saw exponential growth during the pandemic, scaling 15x to meet the needs of a global community of learners. We’re now in a pivotal chapter—investing in deeper, more seamless educational pathways to serve evolving family needs.
As the Engineering Manager your contributions will directly impact our mission to inspire kids to love learning by making high-quality, interest-based education more discoverable, consumable, and engaging.
You might be a great fit for this role if:
- You have experience as an engineering manager in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage company, and enjoy supporting teams through change and scale
- You bring strong technical judgment and a track record of leading engineering teams that ship impactful products quickly and iteratively
- You’re passionate about education, access, and user experience, and motivated by a mission-driven environment
- You demonstrate strong interest in hands-on experience with applying artificial intelligence for features like personalized learning experiences, smarter content discovery and educational recommendations
- You enjoy balancing technical decision-making with coaching, and you’re committed to building inclusive, high-performing teams
- You excel at owning and driving engineering roadmaps; collaborating with cross-functional partners to prioritize initiatives, align with business objectives, and ensure timely, high-quality execution
This role is the equivalent to a senior engineering manager position. At Outschool we have decided to take an unconventional approach to titling that aligns with our values and is focused on impact above status. You can learn more about our titling philosophy here.
Core Responsibilities:
- Lead an engineering team and partner closely with cross-functional leads
- Oversee the design, development, and evolution of discovery, personalization, and classroom features, ensuring they are performant, user-centric, and aligned with our mission
- Collaborate closely with product, design, marketing, and analytics to drive forward core initiatives that lower barriers to learning and encourage continuous educational engagement
- Champion technical excellence and a culture of high ownership, providing mentorship, feedback, and support for the professional growth of engineers on your team
- Collaborate with Product & Design to scope and prioritize work across all work streams
Desired Experience & Skills:
- 7-10+ years working as a web application developer
- 5+ years of experience managing software teams of 5-10 software engineers
- Experience managing and growing senior or staff ICs and leads
- Experience in performance management, including conducting reviews and providing feedback
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple parallel projects from planning to execution and on time delivery
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions
- Ability to align team goals with business objectives and contribute to strategic planning
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding software engineers
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Practical experience applying AI to improve learning experiences, content discovery, or personalization
Outschool is recruiting for this role in the Bay Area, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. Only candidates located in the Bay Area will be considered for this role. The salary range for this position would be $225,000 -$280,000 USD.
Outschool Cares:
At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions.
- PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
- Fully Distributed: We create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
- Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
- Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs.
Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@outschool.com.
Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.
Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise.
Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all). If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.
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