Chief Technology Officer

Skillzy is seeking a Co-Founder & CTO to build its AI Lab and expand it into a learning management system for K–12 and beyond. The role leads product architecture and development, AI and privacy design, engineering hiring, and technical fundraising support.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and ship the AI Lab MVP, then grow it into a multi-tenant LMS
• Design our LLM layer: tutoring agents, auto-generated challenges, adaptive difficulty, age-appropriate guardrails
• Build sandboxed, auto-reset lab environments at classroom scale and classroom budget
• Make privacy a feature: FERPA, COPPA, state student-privacy laws, SOC 2 readiness, WCAG 2.1 AA
• Integrate with Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, LTI 1.3 and SSO
• Hire and lead our first engineers and set the engineering culture
• Pitch alongside me to VCs and own technical due diligence