Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Requirements

• Eight or more years of product management or educational product development experience, which includes digital products
• Track record of delivering innovative, customer-centric products from the ground up with meaningful results
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering, design, and other technical partners to solve customer needs while making critical trade-off decisions (e.g., competing customer goals, constraints)
• Project management experience leading subject matters experts (such as researchers, educational experts, or assessment developers) to define and launch new products
• Experience owning product roadmaps and functional specifications, conducting customer research, driving user testing, and making critical decisions on trade-offs between features and time-to-market
• Superior communication and analytical skills, including strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous and/or technical problems and then convey key info back to diverse (and non-technical) audiences
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time

Responsibilities

• Identify child and educator needs
• Develop product requirements
• Manage project plans
• Launch and iterate new products that enable teachers and families to cultivate the growth and curiosity of young children

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in early childhood product development (e.g., digital assessments, learning games, classroom tools) and owning digital educational products that delight families, children, and their teachers
• Experience with web and/or mobile app design and development
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative research and analytic methods
• Passion for building and inventing products on behalf of end users
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience delivering software on time
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage complex projects to successful launch
• Experience managing partners, contractors, or a small team