WHO ARE YOU? You are a technically minded product manager who enjoys working at the intersection of digital product strategy, user experience, and engineering. You enjoy translating business goals and customer needs and partnering across teams to deliver high-quality digital products that drive meaningful impact.
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 Technical Product Manager, you will be a key member of our digital product management team, reporting to the Vice President of Product Management and UX Design and contribute to the delivery and success of our digital product portfolio.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:
Strategy & Execution
- 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 & Roadmap
- 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.
- Execute 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 & User-Centric Design
- 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.
- 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.