Our mission-driven nature sets us apart from others. We envision a future where educators understand and use technology as fluently as they do other learning tools and strategies—with resourcefulness, confidence, and skill. We know from experience that when technology is applied effectively, more and better learning happens. This vision informs what we do every day and it's shared by the clients for whom we work.

Clarity Innovations is a professional services firm on a mission to improve the process and practice of teaching. Drawing on a background of expertise in education and technology, we have been delivering content and services to corporations and learning organizations, large and small, since 1996. We are recognized for our collaborative approach, blended expertise, ingenuity, and producing results.

Clients hire us to improve the process and practice of teaching and learning because we understand how to match promising technologies to the needs of education.

Picture this: A large room with windows overlooking the Willamette River and Downtown Portland. Our team working on the latest educational technology. Educators, designers, and engineers sharing a space and a cup of coffee.

Every day, we work with clients on challenging problems like:

Careful where you walk as sometimes there are robots zipping by. Be mindful of the Rube Goldberg contraption with blinking lights. Our team—educators, developers, thinkers, designers, and writers—share one thing in common: we are all learners.  We collect and play with different technologies used in education and ask ourselves, “How can this be used to teach in ways never before possible?”.  It's no surprise then that lunch conversations sometimes become debates over the latest education technology trend or fad. 

Committees help operate and improve the company overall. Some of the committees help manage things like facilities, the pantry of snacks, or our office plants (including a tower garden of year-round vegetables!), while others are for improving our sustainability, learning as a team, health and wellness, or diversity and inclusion.

Our identity as an education company means we are committed to everyone’s professional growth and learning. We have monthly Lunch & Learns about a variety of topics related to our work, recent industry events, or the education industry, with guest speakers quarterly.  In addition to sponsoring your membership in a chosen professional organization, we also support periodic enrollment in online courses and attendance at industry conferences to hone and expand your skills. 

Each year, we make a donation to a non-profit that has a mission in a field related to ours, to give back to our local community. Everyone can nominate an organization and the team collectively decides the recipient during our annual year-end All-Hands Week (a week of internal meetings, activities, and down time to celebrate the year).  Past recipients include Friends of Outdoor School, Community Transitional School, Code.org, Right Brain Initiative, Girls Who Code, Thinkersmith, Techbridge, MercyCorps. 

Life doesn’t always happen only on the weekends. We provide everyone the flexibility to set and adjust their work schedule to make room for appointments, volunteering activities, or everyday things like picking up kids from school.  All of this is made possible without having to take any paid time off.

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive, creative, and collaborative workplace that values the diversity of perspectives, values, and experiences each of us bring to the team. We do this through regular lunch & learns that help us uncover and recognize our biases, understand inclusive design for accessibility, practice our Clarity competencies, and make actionable the tenants of universal design for learning.

We prefer candidates that share an affinity with our core values:

Please prepare a letter of interest highlighting your qualifications and experiences relevant to the position for which you wish to be considered. Please be specific with qualitative and quantitative examples highlighting your ability, skill, or knowledge. If we share a network of colleagues in common, please don't hesitate to let us know that too. (In other words, if you know someone that works here, please mention that fact.)

Resume

Include your complete resume, a description of the projects and teams you have worked with previously and samples from your work portfolio (if applicable, see below). To be considered for an interview, your resume must indicate you have attained the minimum qualifications.

You may optionally attach supporting material to demonstrate your qualifications, experience, or fit for the job to which you are applying, so long as the total does not exceed 10MB. Please make sure your full name is in the file names of the attachment(s). Only the following types of file attachments will be accepted:  pdf, doc/docx, ppt/pptx, or png/jpg

We're big believers in portfolio-based assessment of applicants. We want to see examples of your work product. Other than your resume, it's one of the only ways to differentiate yourself from other candidates. Please specify the intentionality about why you're including what you're including in your portfolio samples.

Whether it's a graphic design, website, software source code, or instructional resources, lesson plans, interactive experiences, or training materials you've created, having a sample of your work to review helps us choose who we invite for interviews.

Our preference is to see examples of your work from your current or former employer(s). If you are unable to disclose those examples due to confidentiality agreements, it's acceptable to submit examples from personal projects.

Most of our jobs are now remote friendly to anyone living in the United States. We also provide relocation expense reimbursement if you wish to move to Portland, Oregon, where we maintain an office. If your resume doesn't indicate you're living in the vicinity of the location listed for the job to which you are applying, please indicate whether you intend to relocate in your cover letter.

After submitting your application, it will be screened for how well it meets the qualifications, experience, and education requirements of the job opening. Though we can’t always reply personally to every application, if there's a match between your talents and our needs, we will contact you directly within two weeks to schedule a video or in-person interview. 

We interview candidates using behavior-based questions designed to better understand and evaluate your abilities and experiences at problem solving, decision making, and communicating—among with other behaviors—that are indicative of being a high-performing contributor on our team. Here is a list of sample behavior-based interview questions similar to the ones we may ask you.

This approach means the interview is very conversational. We will ask you to tell us stories about your work experiences, thought processes, and actions taken in different scenarios and circumstances so that we can better understand you. These aren't questions about what you would do, but rather about what you actually did. Remember, there are no wrong answers in a conversation and we'll help steer you in the right direction if we get off topic.

Clarity Innovations, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and inclusion. Employment offers are made on the basis of qualifications, and without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, domestic partner or marital status, pregnancy, national origin or ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic characteristics), amnesty, military or veteran status, or any other form of discrimination made unlawful by local, state or federal laws.

The physical and mental capabilities required to perform the essential functions of most jobs at Clarity Innovations are as follows:

Individual job openings will list any additional capabilities that may be specific to each. In all cases, we readily make reasonable accommodations as per the American with Disabilities Act.

More about our benefits

Clarity Innovations invests in your success in several ways: