VP, Teaching & Learning: Scale AI-Powered Education

Clarivate Plc; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarivate Plc seeks a Vice President, Teaching & Learning to shape and scale onCourse, an AI-native platform for higher education to transform teaching, learning, curriculum intelligence, and student success. This executive will build a new growth business by pairing market expertise with Clarivate’s university relationships and data assets.

The role demands 10+ years in leadership within higher education tech and SaaS, with a track record of building and scaling software ventures, and of

Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership experience in higher education technology, enterprise edtech, digital learning, curriculum technology, SaaS, or a closely related market.
• 5+ years of experience leading a business unit, product strategy, and/or general management functions.
• Demonstrated experience launching, building, repositioning, or scaling a disruptive software product or new venture.
• Experience owning or contributing to go-to-market and product strategy, pricing, pipeline development
• Experience working directly with higher education institutions, university leaders, enterprise customers, strategic partners, design partners, and early adopters.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, product management, product marketing, technology, finance, operations, or customer-facing functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the business strategy, product direction, market development, commercialization, customer adoption, and revenue growth for onCourse and related Teaching & Learning opportunities.
• Define market focus, customer segments, value proposition, growth model, investment priorities, and the path from launch to repeatable adoption and revenue scale.
• Set product vision and roadmap priorities in partnership with Technology, grounded in customer needs, market opportunity, and commercial goals.
• Lead customer discovery, design partner engagement, and product-market fit validation to focus on capabilities that drive adoption.
• Own the revenue plan, go-to-market approach, pricing, pipeline strategy, and sales enablement model in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product, and Technology.
• Develop executive relationships with universities, design partners, early adopters, and strategic prospects to accelerate validation, pipeline creation, and market credibility.
• Drive pipeline creation, deal progression, customer conversion, and predictable commercial performance.
• Lead an integrated team across sales, product management, and product marketing while partnering closely with technology, content, AI, finance, and operations.
• Align senior leaders around the business case, market opportunity, investment needs, and path to growth.

Skills

Leadership experience

Product strategy

Go-to-market

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise SaaS

Job description

Clarivate Plc seeks a Vice President, Teaching & Learning to shape and scale onCourse, an AI-native platform for higher education to transform teaching, learning, curriculum intelligence, and student success. This executive will build a new growth business by pairing market expertise with Clarivate’s university relationships and data assets.

The role demands 10+ years in leadership within higher education tech and SaaS, with a track record of building and scaling software ventures, and of