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Senior Product Manager

WHO ARE YOU? A Sr Product Manager that is passionate about championing the creation of user-friendly digital products, driving innovation and supporting organizational growth.

WHO ARE WE? We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.

WHAT IS THE ROLE ABOUT? As a Senior Product Manager, you will be a key member of our digital product management team by leading scrum teams and contributing to the delivery and success of our digital product portfolio.

WHY IS THIS EXCITING? We are a growth-minded organization, and this role is set to drive the success of our digital product portfolio.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

Collaborate with members of the product team, UX design, and engineering to execute the product vision and strategy.
Research market opportunities and trends to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of the products in your ownership.
Develop a deep understanding of user behaviors and product usage to share insight and drive improvements.
Define, track, implement and monitor KPIs for digital products, including feature usage, customer satisfaction, and learning efficacy.

Product Development

Lead and collaborate with product development teams (UX design, engineering, QA), ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
Oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring products meet quality standards, are delivered on time, and align with budget constraints.
Conduct market research, including user interviews and analysis of competitors that contribute to product enhancements and innovations.
Develop clear requirements for new product features and tools, ensuring engineers understand direction and can effectively develop based on them.

Product Roadmap

Manage product roadmaps aligned to the product vision and strategic organizational goals.
Report on product roadmap milestones and goals.
Apply frameworks to prioritize features based on sound estimations of business value and complexity.
Run hypothesis-driven experiments to drive sound product decisions.
Oversee product development across agile teams, including feature backlog, bug management, and task assignment.

Technical Acumen

Analyze user data and make sound inferences to answer questions and support decision-making.
Develop fluency in the underlying architecture, codebase and technologies of the product platform.

User-Centric Design

Partner with UX/UI design to implement intuitive and user-friendly designs, incorporating feedback from user research and usability testing.
Coordinate and champion user research and visual user workflows to provide clarity of product goals.

Stakeholder Partnerships

Support and embrace a diverse team of product managers and mentor more junior Product Managers.
Develop impactful relationships across the organization to effectively bring others into the work happening in the product space.
Support oversight and management of third‐party vendors associated with the product portfolio.
Work closely with cross-functional partners, including sales, marketing, and customer support, to ensure effective product launches and ongoing support.
Collaborate with key stakeholders to gather feedback and insights, translating them into actionable product improvements.

YOU MUST HAVE (MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE)

Bachelor's degree in an industry-relevant field: Computer Science, Business Administration, Education, etc.
5+ years of experience in product management and launching impactful products to market.
Experience managing cross-functional teams and leading SCRUM/Agile development teams
Experience working with UX designers.
Experience working in Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and visualization tools (i.e. Figma, Miro, Lucid).
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to articulate design concepts and ideas clearly and persuasively adjusting appropriately to the audience
Willingness and ability to travel to the Boston office 4-8 times a year without restriction.

IDEAL IF YOU HAVE (PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE)

Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technical product domains.
Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
Experience working in product management in EdTech
Experience in education, teaching, administration, or learning a second language
Experience in data products, data science, or AI.

LOCATION: US - Remote

In order to be considered, candidate must reside within the United States. Ideal candidate will reside in the East Coast Time Zone (EST). Relocation is not available for this position.

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