Frontline Education
Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions
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Remote - US
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Full-Time
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$200K - $250K
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Other
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June 7th, 2026
K-12
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Frontline Education is hiring a Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions. This role leads the technical strategy and modernization of the Human Capital Management product engineering team, driving AI-first transformation and operational excellence to enhance workforce management solutions for K-12 school districts.
Highlights
- Lead engineering organization across multiple products and platforms within People Solutions.
- Define and implement multi-year engineering and modernization strategies focused on AI adoption and platform evolution.
- Drive delivery of AI-powered capabilities that improve outcomes for educators, staff, and school districts.
- Build and scale a high-performing, geographically distributed engineering team with strong leadership development.
- Partner with Product, Platform, Architecture, Security, and Customer Experience leaders to align engineering with customer needs.
- Proven experience leading large-scale SaaS engineering organizations in HCM, ERP, or workforce management domains.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-based applications, AI-enabled development practices, DevOps, and site reliability engineering.
- Strong communication skills to translate technical strategy into business outcomes and influence executive stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
- Competitive executive compensation package with base salary range $200,000-$250,000 plus incentives and benefits.
Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions Full Description
Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions
Location: United States
Description
Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions
Location: Remote, USA
Location: Remote, USA
How You'll Contribute to Our Mission
Frontline Education is seeking a transformational Vice President of Engineering, People Solutions, to lead the technical strategy, delivery, modernization, and operational excellence of our Human Capital Management product engineering organization.
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll serve as a key member of Frontline's Technology leadership team and play a central role in shaping the company's strategy, operating model, and AI-first transformation.
The People Solutions portfolio serves thousands of school districts through an integrated Human Capital Management solution that supports recruiting, hiring, employee management, professional growth, absence management, time and attendance, workforce management, and strategic workforce planning. This is a unique opportunity to help K12 school districts attract, develop, manage, and support all the talented school staff who make student success possible.
This position combines deep technical leadership with organizational influence, product partnership, operational rigor, and a strong commitment to customer outcomes.
As a key leader in Frontline’s AI-first transformation, you’ll help shape how we apply AI to create meaningful value for school districts while advancing the effectiveness of our engineering organization. You’ll lead the delivery of AI-powered experiences that improve outcomes for educators and staff, while accelerating engineering productivity through spec-driven development and intelligent automation.
Success in this role requires balancing long-term platform modernization with near-term customer commitments. You’ll help evolve our People Solutions portfolio into a connected set of capabilities built on a modern SaaS foundation, designed to support AI-enabled workflows and solve the most important challenges facing K-12 school districts.
By fostering a culture grounded in collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, you'll help shape how engineering organizations operate at scale while ensuring we remain deeply connected to the educators and communities we serve.
Your work will directly influence how thousands of school districts recruit, develop, manage, and support the educators and staff who help millions of students succeed.
The ideal candidate is energized by the opportunity to transform how schools work through technology, combining strong engineering leadership with a passion for delivering solutions that create measurable value for educators, administrators, and the communities they serve.
At Frontline, our vision is simple but meaningful: Every school thriving. Every community stronger.
Our mission is to transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds.
How You'll Drive Success
• Lead the People Solutions engineering organization across multiple product areas, platforms, and development teams.
• Define and execute a multi-year engineering strategy aligned to Frontline’s product vision, customer needs, and business priorities.
• Establish and execute a modernization strategy that advances platform evolution, engineering effectiveness, AI adoption, and long-term business growth.
• Champion Frontline’s Product Operating Model by keeping engineering teams close to customer needs through active discovery, trusted delivery, and customer-centered decision making.
• Deliver the AI strategy in partnership with Product, Platform, and Architecture leaders, identifying opportunities to deliver practical, high-impact AI capabilities that improve outcomes for school district staff, educators, and students.
• Establish People Solutions Engineering as an AI-first engineering organization by leveraging agentic AI-enabled development practices and intelligent automation to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and increase engineering efficacy.
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization through effective coaching, organizational design, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Strengthen engineering leadership capability and organizational maturity while building a deep and sustainable leadership bench.
• Balance innovation efforts with improvements to scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, observability, and performance.
• Lead engineering transformation initiatives, including modernization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and operational excellence.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning that empowers teams to innovate while maintaining high standards of execution.
• Influence enterprise technology strategy and contribute to cross-functional planning, prioritization, investment decisions, and operational alignment.
• Partner closely with Product, Platform, Architecture, Security, and Customer Experience leaders to deliver scalable, reliable, and customer-centered solutions.
• Deepen alignment across Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience teams to accelerate delivery, improve customer outcomes, and maximize business impact.
• Drive measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, operational maturity, product reliability, and the speed and quality of customer outcomes.
• Champion thoughtful and responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies while maintaining trust, transparency, security, and human-centered design principles.
• Help shape the future of workforce management technology in K-12 education by delivering solutions that enable school districts to recruit, develop, manage, and support the employees who make student success possible.
• Define and execute a multi-year engineering strategy aligned to Frontline’s product vision, customer needs, and business priorities.
• Establish and execute a modernization strategy that advances platform evolution, engineering effectiveness, AI adoption, and long-term business growth.
• Champion Frontline’s Product Operating Model by keeping engineering teams close to customer needs through active discovery, trusted delivery, and customer-centered decision making.
• Deliver the AI strategy in partnership with Product, Platform, and Architecture leaders, identifying opportunities to deliver practical, high-impact AI capabilities that improve outcomes for school district staff, educators, and students.
• Establish People Solutions Engineering as an AI-first engineering organization by leveraging agentic AI-enabled development practices and intelligent automation to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and increase engineering efficacy.
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization through effective coaching, organizational design, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Strengthen engineering leadership capability and organizational maturity while building a deep and sustainable leadership bench.
• Balance innovation efforts with improvements to scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, observability, and performance.
• Lead engineering transformation initiatives, including modernization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and operational excellence.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning that empowers teams to innovate while maintaining high standards of execution.
• Influence enterprise technology strategy and contribute to cross-functional planning, prioritization, investment decisions, and operational alignment.
• Partner closely with Product, Platform, Architecture, Security, and Customer Experience leaders to deliver scalable, reliable, and customer-centered solutions.
• Deepen alignment across Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience teams to accelerate delivery, improve customer outcomes, and maximize business impact.
• Drive measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness, operational maturity, product reliability, and the speed and quality of customer outcomes.
• Champion thoughtful and responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies while maintaining trust, transparency, security, and human-centered design principles.
• Help shape the future of workforce management technology in K-12 education by delivering solutions that enable school districts to recruit, develop, manage, and support the employees who make student success possible.
What You Bring to Help Us Grow
• Proven experience leading large-scale SaaS engineering organizations supporting enterprise applications, platforms, or multi-product portfolios.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale SaaS products in the HCM, ERP, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains.
• Strong comfort with AI-enabled engineering teams, intelligent automation, AI-powered product capabilities, and emerging technology trends.
• Deep experience building and scaling modern cloud-based applications and distributed systems.
• Strong track record partnering with Product, Design, and Architecture leaders to deliver customer-centered software solutions.
• Experience establishing engineering metrics, operational KPIs, and data-informed decision-making practices.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams and developing strong engineering leadership benches.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering transformation initiatives, including modernization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, organizational scaling, and operational excellence.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, platform engineering, DevOps practices, site reliability principles, security, and modern software delivery methodologies.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and building alignment across complex organizations.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into clear business outcomes.
• Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to connect technical investments to customer, employee, and business outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent experience will also be considered.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale SaaS products in the HCM, ERP, workforce management, or similarly complex business domains.
• Strong comfort with AI-enabled engineering teams, intelligent automation, AI-powered product capabilities, and emerging technology trends.
• Deep experience building and scaling modern cloud-based applications and distributed systems.
• Strong track record partnering with Product, Design, and Architecture leaders to deliver customer-centered software solutions.
• Experience establishing engineering metrics, operational KPIs, and data-informed decision-making practices.
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams and developing strong engineering leadership benches.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering transformation initiatives, including modernization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, organizational scaling, and operational excellence.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, platform engineering, DevOps practices, site reliability principles, security, and modern software delivery methodologies.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and building alignment across complex organizations.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into clear business outcomes.
• Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to connect technical investments to customer, employee, and business outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent experience will also be considered.
What You'll Need to Thrive
• Act Like an Owner: Takes accountability for outcomes, builds trust through action, and leads with integrity, transparency, and follow-through.
• Be Better Together: Builds strong partnerships across teams, encourages diverse perspectives, and creates an environment where people can do their best work together.
• Obsess Over Customer Success: Learns what matters most to customers, earns trust in every interaction, and consistently aligns decisions to customer outcomes.
• AI-First Leadership: Sees AI as both a customer value accelerator and a transformational force within software organizations. Champions responsible experimentation, continuous learning, and practical application of AI to improve products, processes, and outcomes.
• Strategic and Practical Thinking: Balances long-term vision with disciplined execution and operational excellence.
• Calm Through Complexity: Navigates ambiguity, organizational change, and transformation with clarity, resilience, and focus.
• Talent Builder: Invests deeply in people development, coaching, succession planning, and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Continuous Learner: Embraces emerging technologies, evolving customer needs, and new ways of working with curiosity and adaptability.
• Systems Thinker: Understands how architecture, teams, platforms, data, and customer experiences connect across the organization.
• Customer-Centered Innovator: Uses technology thoughtfully to solve meaningful problems and create measurable impact for schools and communities.
• Be Better Together: Builds strong partnerships across teams, encourages diverse perspectives, and creates an environment where people can do their best work together.
• Obsess Over Customer Success: Learns what matters most to customers, earns trust in every interaction, and consistently aligns decisions to customer outcomes.
• AI-First Leadership: Sees AI as both a customer value accelerator and a transformational force within software organizations. Champions responsible experimentation, continuous learning, and practical application of AI to improve products, processes, and outcomes.
• Strategic and Practical Thinking: Balances long-term vision with disciplined execution and operational excellence.
• Calm Through Complexity: Navigates ambiguity, organizational change, and transformation with clarity, resilience, and focus.
• Talent Builder: Invests deeply in people development, coaching, succession planning, and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Continuous Learner: Embraces emerging technologies, evolving customer needs, and new ways of working with curiosity and adaptability.
• Systems Thinker: Understands how architecture, teams, platforms, data, and customer experiences connect across the organization.
• Customer-Centered Innovator: Uses technology thoughtfully to solve meaningful problems and create measurable impact for schools and communities.
Our Mission, Our People, Our Purpose
At Frontline Education, we’re reimagining what’s possible by becoming an AI-first organization, transforming how we think, work, and serve the educators who shape our schools every day. By using AI in thoughtful, practical ways, we’re creating tools that help educators save time, gain insights, and focus more on what matters most — their students.
As part of our team, you’ll be expected and empowered to build and apply AI skillsets that grow with you, because at Frontline Education, technology amplifies what matters most: the human drive to learn, improve, and make a difference.
How We Support Growth, Balance, and Well-Being
• Personalized Time Off: Take time when it’s needed most — whether that’s a family vacation, a reset day, or simply time to rest and refocus.
• Paid Sick Time: Separate, dedicated sick leave to care for yourself or loved ones.
• Volunteer Time Off: Paid time to give back and support causes that matter to you.
• Ten Paid Holidays: Enjoy meaningful moments and traditions throughout the year.
• Our Philosophy: We believe time away from work helps you bring your best self to it.
Continuous Learning and Growth
• World-Class Learning Access: Explore thousands of on-demand courses through platforms like LinkedIn Learning.
• Leadership & Technical Skill Building: Develop new capabilities and chart your own professional path.
• AI Empowerment: Use OpenAI tools to build fluency with emerging technology and harness AI as a creative partner for innovation and problem-solving.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Invest in formal education to advance your skills and career.
• Ongoing Learning Culture: Participate in company-led webinars on AI, inclusion, and industry trends designed to inspire curiosity and continuous improvement.
Health, Happiness, and Purpose
• Wellness Initiatives: Company-sponsored programs that support physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support for you and your family’s needs.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health and financial benefits that support your happiness and future.
• A Culture That Cares: At Frontline Education, we want every team member to learn, grow, and thrive personally, professionally, and purposefully.
Compensation & Benefits
Frontline Education offers a competitive executive compensation package designed to attract and retain exceptional leaders.
The full base compensation range for this position is $200,000-$250,000.
Compensation for this role will be based on experience, leadership scope, geographic location, and internal equity considerations. The package may include base salary, annual incentive opportunities, long-term incentive eligibility, comprehensive health benefits, retirement programs, personalized time off, and professional development support.
Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity
Frontline Education is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We aspire to have an inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join our team.
Interview Process & Data Privacy
As part of our interview process, Frontline uses video conferencing tools that include photo capture and may include automated transcription features. A screenshot or photo will be taken at the start of the interview for internal identification and record-keeping purposes only, and transcription may be used to support notetaking and evaluation consistency.
These materials are used solely by our recruiting and hiring teams, stored securely, and not shared outside the hiring process. Candidates may opt out of transcription at any time by notifying their recruiter in advance.
Frontline processes this information in accordance with applicable data privacy laws and only for legitimate business purposes related to recruitment and hiring.
