Director of Product, EdTech

Hyve Group Ltd•New York, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The ASU+GSV Summit, now in its 18th year, is a premier gathering for education and workforce leaders, attracting over 7,000 registrants to discuss the transformation of learning through emerging technologies. Since July 2025, GSV Summit has been part of Hyve Group, expanding its global reach. The Product Team is central to the Summit's success, designing and delivering inspiring content and experiences that foster transformational connections. They collaborate across marketing, partnerships, and community, engaging with a diverse group of education stakeholders. The team operates across PreK-12, Higher Education, and Workforce verticals, with EdTech serving as the crucial connective tissue for innovation, investment, and company-building. The team embraces an agile, collaborative approach, adapting to launch new programs and refine existing ones as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Significant experience in the global EdTech industry — spanning startups, growth-stage companies, investing, or corporate EdTech — with AI in education experience strongly preferred.
Excellent networks in EdTech and education and a strong system for staying engaged and up to date with founder communities
Demonstrated success in product or program management, or driving revenue through strategic partnerships, or B2B sales in EdTech or adjacent sectors.
Familiarity with the growth and investing landscape — you understand how founders build and how investors evaluate opportunities at the earliest stages.
Direct experience in or adjacent to the EdTech ecosystem — startups, investing, or company-building — and not only understand how it intersects with PreK-12, Higher Ed, and Workforce, but are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity for innovation.
Talent for building authentic relationships and connecting ideas to opportunity — especially in complex, cross-sector spaces.
Deep curiosity about how AI is and will impact education and EdTech, and excitement to explore emerging technologies with founders, investors, and thought leaders.
Ability to be both a big-picture thinker and a detail-oriented executor.
Ability to synthesize complex ideas into crisp, compelling messaging — whether you're writing speaker invitations, crafting session descriptions, or pitching a new idea to a partner.
Approach ambiguity with optimism, creativity, and a bias toward action.
Skilled collaborator who values feedback, iteration, and cross-functional teamwork — and a true thought partner to the VP of Program.
Facile with tools like Airtable, Cvent, Google Workspace, and AI-powered platforms that boost efficiency, creativity, and business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

AI in education experience strongly preferred.
You bring the industry standing and stage presence to represent GSV publicly, including moderating high-profile programming such as Star Track.

Responsibilities

Serve as GSV’s foremost connector across the global EdTech ecosystem — engaging daily with the founders, investors, operators, and policymakers shaping the industry, and ensuring GSV’s content and programming stay ahead of what’s next.
Collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Community teams to position GSV as the thought leader and the premier platform for EdTech companies at all stages, from ideation to growth to IPO.
Work with the Community Team to engage, nurture, and grow the EdTech community year-round, using research and community insights to shape programming, sponsorship opportunities, and emerging topics.
Grow GSV 150's reach and representation across geographies and sectors, and increase EdTech representation across all programming to amplify the EdTech voice at Summit.
Learn the GSV150 formula and maintain the list accurately year-round; lead on annual announcement and surrounding marketing activities, including press release, personalized CEO invitations, GSV 150 market map creation, and social media campaigns.
Lead end-to-end GSV Cup and co-lead Star Track programming, from identifying and recruiting the most promising startups through seamless execution of GSV Demo Day.
Develop productization and sponsorship strategies to grow revenue across GSV Cup, GSV 150, and StarTrack — including receptions, list and sponsorship packages, media partnerships, and the Founders x Founders matching program.
Run the Community Events surrounding the Entrepreneur and Investor community, including the Entrepreneur & Investor Happy Hour and other events that connect founders with investors and build pipeline for the ASU+GSV brand.
Co-curate the EdTech Building and Investing stage — tracking emerging startups, funding rounds, and the investors backing them — to keep programming and partnerships ahead of the market.
Serve as a primary point of contact for EdTech speakers, moderators, founders, investors, and partners — delivering exceptional service and responsiveness.
Streamline operations by automating registration, selection, and scheduling, and eliminate conflicts across overlapping EdTech sessions.
Co-curate and execute the EdTech program vision end-to-end — from idea generation through final session delivery — with exceptional documentation of session details and speaker logistics.
Identify, cultivate, and manage relationships with partners to strengthen EdTech programming, co-creating activations that drive partner value and revenue growth alongside the partnership team.
Develop new engagement opportunities — workshops, mentorship opportunities, regional meetups, and other high-engagement events — that build the ASU+GSV brand and pipeline into sponsorship.
Use Airtable, Cvent, generative AI, and other tools to streamline workflows and enhance program delivery, and help test new technologies that improve efficiency and business outcomes.
Partner with the Product team to develop and improve edtech ecosystem knowledge mapping and building across the team.