Associate Product Manager

CodeHS•Chicago, IL

5d•$90,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

CodeHS is hiring an early-career Associate Product Manager to work within its engineering product team. The role owns projects within a product area from problem discovery through launch and adoption. The Associate Product Manager makes scope, specification, and tradeoff decisions for assigned projects and works closely with engineers. Broader prioritization decisions are initially made collaboratively, with more ownership developing as the employee demonstrates judgment. The role also provides exposure to cross-team priority-setting discussions. The position is based in CodeHS’s River North office in Chicago, five days per week. The company’s broader workforce is hybrid, including employees in other offices and remote employees, with whom this role will collaborate regularly. In-person work is emphasized to support rapid learning and mentorship. The Associate Product Manager is expected to prototype ideas using AI coding agents, document specifications and product reasoning, and speak with users—including teachers and district customers—when needed. The role connects engineering with sales, customer success, support, and curriculum teams by gathering and synthesizing their product and tooling needs. The role reports to Zach Galant, CTO and co-founder.

Requirements

At least one year of full-time work experience in any role; a product management internship also counts.
Comfort reading a pull request and asking engineers informed questions about how software works and what it would take to change it.
Fluency with AI, including using AI for prototyping with coding agents, research, synthesis, and building tools.
Ability to identify when an AI model is confidently wrong and describe an example.
High agency: able to develop plans for problems and raise concerns when the problem itself seems wrong.
Clear, concise communication, with the main point stated first.

Responsibilities

Own projects within a product area from understanding the problem through launch and adoption.
Make scope, specification, and tradeoff decisions for assigned projects, working closely with engineers.
Participate in cross-team priority-setting conversations and take on broader decision-making responsibility over time.
Create working prototypes using AI coding agents and document product briefs, specifications, and decision reasoning.
Speak with users, including teachers and district customers, to understand their needs.
Gather and synthesize product and tooling needs from sales, customer success, support, and curriculum teams, and use them to inform what to build.
Communicate product decisions and plans clearly to engineering and other teams.