What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Product Manager (Strategies) position at Ellevation?
We are currently re-envisioning our Strategies product to create a market-leading Professional Learning solution. As part of that, we are creating solutions that equip educators to practice applying new knowledge and skills in the classroom and empower admins to drive sustained and high-fidelity professional learning at scale. These improvements to our Strategies offering will ultimately drive greater impact for the students we serve.
As the Associate Product Manager for Strategies, you will play a key role in supporting the Strategies product team. You will work closely with the Senior Product Manager, UX Designer, Engineers, and Education Solutions team members to understand our customers and the challenges they face. You will contribute to discovery and the understanding of these problems, help frame and execute experiments to learn, and play a role in the coordination and communication across the product team.
At Ellevation, Product Managers are responsible for working cross-functionally to ensure the product organization’s work has an impact on our customers. This involves deeply understanding the business and developing relationships across the organization. Importantly, this means creating opportunities for others to plug in to your work and ensuring stakeholders understand what you are doing, why you are doing it, and that you have factored their ideas and/or concerns into that thinking.
Impact
- 1 month - Build a clear picture of the key challenges and business context facing Ellevation with a particular eye on the Strategies Product and related product areas. Establish high-trust relationships with members of this new team. Understand Ellevation’s approach to product development and go to market.
- 3 months - Develop expertise in the Strategies Product. Begin to contribute to discovery efforts through understanding of customer and market. Become familiar with key metrics used to shape learning objectives and experiments that we ship. Continue to develop rapport with peers and stakeholders.
- 6 months - Work alongside Strategies Product Team Leads to incorporate insights and learnings into Product Strategy definition. Turn relationships into influence - building relationships with go-to-market stakeholders, making them feel heard and identifying opportunities for them to plug into the work in your product areas. Create leverage within the Strategies product team and go-to-market stakeholders by taking on increasing responsibility for cross-team communication.
- 12 months - Demonstrate strong growth in key areas of the product ladder. Take on a more expansive role in discovery and delivery efforts in your product areas.
Product Culture
- We are organized into small product teams that focus on key problems to solve in the context of their specific domain. We focus on outcomes over output. Our teams are empowered to research, prototype, and solicit user feedback to validate hypotheses. We engage users early and rapidly iterate so that the end result is a high-confidence, high-value product. We aim to foster an environment where we have the runway to experiment and learn from failure while tackling tricky challenges.
- Our teams are cross-functional in that they are made up of members of Product (Product Manager, UX Designer), Engineering (Tech Lead, Engineers), and Educational Solutions (Director, Instructional Specialist). These teams work hand-in-hand together—we call ourselves R&D, and in fact, we rarely meet in isolation.
- Clear vision and strong strategy are core principles within the Product organization. We value product managers who fully own the long-term vision—knowing where we are going and importantly why it matters for our customers. As strategy is meant to evolve, you will need to constantly identify increments, spot and mitigate risks, and position your team to meet the needs of the business on the way there.
- We celebrate being accountable to outcomes, which means signing up to pursue that vision by knocking down obstacles that get in the way. This looks like conducting experiments which throw off learnings, adjusting strategy based on those learnings, and delivering products to end-users that change behavior and drive real value for the business.
About Us:
At Ellevation, we develop world-class software to help educators serve the fastest growing population of K-12 students: English Learners (ELs). Ellevation helps school districts transform their Multilingual Learner programs and ensure all students can achieve their highest aspirations. Our product suite includes a best-in-class data and instructional planning platform, resources to build teacher capacity, and student-facing programs to teach academic language.
We are a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company partnering with over 1,200 school districts and more than 3 million current and former English Learners. Over the next five years, we plan to double the number of ELs we serve and drive measurable outcomes for students. Ellevation merged with Curriculum Associates in 2021 to accelerate impact for Multilingual Learners. Our company continues to operate independently and is well-capitalized to support our ambitious social and financial objectives.
Why Ellevation?
In addition to our great benefits and competitive salaries, here are some things that make us unique:
Mission-driven organization where team members are empowered to make a significant impact
Opportunities to join DEIB-focused groups and support building a culture of belonging
Professional development and growth opportunities
Company and team offsites in various cities across the United States
Collaborative workspace in the heart of Boston - a stone's throw from many central T stops (Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and Aquarium). Free snacks, beverages, and local organic fruit provided
Remote and in-person engagement opportunities, including happy hours, themed events, and competitions Remote and in-person wellness programming to support team’s mental and physical wellbeing
Learn more about our team in our Culture Deck.
Here at Ellevation, we champion diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values a range of ideas and opinions.
We believe in building a culture where productivity can flourish, one that is empathetic, respectful, and inclusive. We are proud to have been recognized in prior years as “Best Tech Workplace for Diversity” by the Timmy Awards for investing in training around inclusive behaviors, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and feedback across the company. We are encouraged by our progress, but there’s more work to be done.
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