K-12 Education Product Manager
Job Posting for K-12 Education Product Manager at Instructional Empowerment
An Opportunity to use your skills to impact generational poverty while you work from your home office!
If you are a certified Product Manager with the experience of managing products that were not solely tech, and you have a calling to use your skills for meaningful work, this position may be for you.
Instructional Empowerment's social mission is is to end generational poverty and eliminate racial achievement gaps through transformed core instruction. You can be part of this effort.
The product manager will manage a line of product that is a hybrid of in-person professional development, in-person coaching, virtual experience resources, digital resources and tech platforms. If you are the right candidate, you have a thirst to collaborate with professional educators in product development.
You know how to take initiative and have a proven history in product management. You demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, products, and product marketing with a deep understanding and curiosity for continued learning about what the market needs and how it will react and integrate the product. Your background is a unique mix of professional experience in education, business acumen, product marketing, KPI management, product strategy, and excellent soft skills. On the business side you can connect product adoption with measurable business value
You look forward to spending a substantial portion of your time interacting with external customers and internal stakeholders, including technical product managers, team leads, front-line faculty, and executive leaders.
The goal of a Product Manager's job is to successfully bring a product to market and ensure its success. Product managers are responsible for overseeing the entire lifecycle of a product, from conception to development, launch, and ongoing improvement.
Measures of Success include qualitative insight and quantitative metrics on revenue growth, customer satisfaction, product adoption, return on investment, and continued evidence of strategic alignment of the product to the organization’s strategic plan
What you will do
The Skills You Bring to the Table
Your Education and Experience
Where you will work
This position will work from a remote home office.
When you will travel
This position requires up to 30% travel which may include trips to schools, school districts, company offices and our annual conference.
When you will work
This is a full-time position. Business hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST). Depending on location, these hours may be flexible to coincide with other time zones. There may be times when early morning/evening/weekend work is necessary to meet the needs of the internal and external customer.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must be able to do to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to twenty pounds.
Other Duties
Please note this job description does not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EEO Statement
Instructional Empowerment provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
If you are a certified Product Manager with the experience of managing products that were not solely tech, and you have a calling to use your skills for meaningful work, this position may be for you.
Instructional Empowerment's social mission is is to end generational poverty and eliminate racial achievement gaps through transformed core instruction. You can be part of this effort.
The product manager will manage a line of product that is a hybrid of in-person professional development, in-person coaching, virtual experience resources, digital resources and tech platforms. If you are the right candidate, you have a thirst to collaborate with professional educators in product development.
You know how to take initiative and have a proven history in product management. You demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business, products, and product marketing with a deep understanding and curiosity for continued learning about what the market needs and how it will react and integrate the product. Your background is a unique mix of professional experience in education, business acumen, product marketing, KPI management, product strategy, and excellent soft skills. On the business side you can connect product adoption with measurable business value
You look forward to spending a substantial portion of your time interacting with external customers and internal stakeholders, including technical product managers, team leads, front-line faculty, and executive leaders.
The goal of a Product Manager's job is to successfully bring a product to market and ensure its success. Product managers are responsible for overseeing the entire lifecycle of a product, from conception to development, launch, and ongoing improvement.
Measures of Success include qualitative insight and quantitative metrics on revenue growth, customer satisfaction, product adoption, return on investment, and continued evidence of strategic alignment of the product to the organization’s strategic plan
What you will do
- Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams, ensuring alignment to the strategic plan as evidenced though effective execution of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Efficiently bring products to market within the planned time limit and planned budget as evidenced by metrics specific to the launch and the early adoption revenues.
- Planning and designing a multistage product roadmap, inclusive of key milestones, features, and customer journey.
- Plan for resource allocation, design sprints, revenue modeling, market strategy and continuous improvement
- Develop and own voice of customer systems, such as customer interviewing, to collect feedback, analyze it, and iterate on the product based on user input as evidenced by analytics related to user experience.
- Represent the voice of the customer (K-12 administrators, educators, and students) and have a validated understanding of customer goals, opportunities, and problems.
- Based on market research and understanding, customer alignment and available resources, prioritize product features and communicate the WHY to the stakeholders
- Create pilot programs to run prototypes and assess outcomes for continuous improvement.
- Set goals for product strategy and lifecycle, define product analytics.
- Create and manage a go to market (GTM) strategy communicated with all internal stakeholders.
- Alignment and collaboration with technical product team
- Collection and analysis of all metrics, qualitative and quantitative specific to success of the product.
The Skills You Bring to the Table
- Strategic thinker- you can think long-term, set a vision, and align product goals to overall business strategy.
- Business and Financial Acumen – you think in business terms and understand budgeting, forecasting, and the financial implications of product decisions.
- Customer Empathy- You get the customer- You know how to learn about the customer to understand user needs, and ensures product meets real pain points.
- Market Knowledge- You stay informed about industry trends, market dynamics, and the competitive landscape.
- Data Analysis- A lover of data! You analyze data to derive insights, track key performance indicators and guide data driven decision making.
- Collaborator- You collaborate effectively with diverse teams, including engineering, marketing, sales, and design.
- Problem Solver- Quickly you address challenges and solve problems during the lifecycle.
- Adaptable- You recognize you must stay flexible to market conditions, user needs and business priorities.
- Intellectually curious- you have a continuous desire to know more and continue to learn.
- Risk management- You identify and mitigate potential business risks.
- Results oriented: You lean into action; you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You are well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work.
- You are Intellectually Curious – You ask why, you explore, you are comfortable with ambiguity, and possess a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.
Your Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or related field
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) a plus
- Agile/Scrum certification
- Minimum five years’ experience in a product role collaborating effectively with cross functional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Education or Ed Tech industry a plus
- Experience using the following tools.
- Jira
- Design tools such as Figma, Lucid, Miro
- MS Suite
- Salesforce experience a plus
Where you will work
This position will work from a remote home office.
When you will travel
This position requires up to 30% travel which may include trips to schools, school districts, company offices and our annual conference.
When you will work
This is a full-time position. Business hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST). Depending on location, these hours may be flexible to coincide with other time zones. There may be times when early morning/evening/weekend work is necessary to meet the needs of the internal and external customer.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must be able to do to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to twenty pounds.
Other Duties
Please note this job description does not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EEO Statement
Instructional Empowerment provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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