Head of Product

Knowledgehook Inc • Toronto, ON

10h • CA$160,000 - CA$200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Knowledgehook helps school systems make measurable, lasting gains in math. We’re the implementation layer that turns assessment data into action in the classroom, built around the Short Learning Cycle: diagnose a gap, teach to it, and measure the growth. Our north-star metric isn’t logins or content consumed; it’s the number of those cycles teachers actually run, because that’s the thing that moves student outcomes.

Teachers and school leaders work the cycle through Missions, GameShows, the Focus Page, Measure Growth, and our School and District Dashboards and it works at scale: across ~98 education systems in Canada, the U.S., and Latin America, including 64 of Ontario’s 72 school boards. Districts running Knowledgehook with fidelity are posting some of the largest math gains in their regions. Niagara Catholic, for one, saw the biggest Grade 3 and 6 proficiency gains in Ontario: an 8-point jump.

We’re building toward something big: 13 million students reaching grade level in math.

Requirements

• 8+ years in product management, with 3+ in a manager/lead role, including shipping software from concept to launch alongside an engineering team - with a meaningful stretch of that time as a hands-on Individual Contributor, not solely managing Product Managers
• Strong analytical instincts: comfortable using analytics, A/B tests, and user research to drive decisions
• Deeply fluent with AI tools: you reach for them by default to accelerate your own work, whether that's drafting PRDs, synthesizing research, prototyping, or pressure-testing ideas, and you have a sharp sense of where they help and where they don't
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing opportunities and explain the "why" behind the trade-offs
• Fluent working hand-in-hand with design (bonus: comfortable in Figma) and engineering (comfortable in Jira/Confluence)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Comfort in a fast-moving, rapidly changing environment — a self-starter who defaults to action
• Expert multitasker
• Can operate, thrive and lead in a chaotic environment where priorities can change
• Desire to improve product processes
• LOVES to create documentation
• Thinks about the whole system when designing a feature or change

Nice To Haves

• Experience in EdTech, K–12, or a math/learning product
• Familiarity with formative assessment or short-cycle / data-driven instruction
• Understanding of the teacher and school-leader (principal/admin) personas

Responsibilities

• Own your roadmap. Set and defend the product strategy for your features, tying every initiative back to our north-star metric: Short Learning Cycles run by teachers, and the average student growth those cycles produce.
• Do the IC work yourself. Write your own PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Build your own mockups and prototypes. Spec edge cases. Triage tickets in Jira and keep specs current in Confluence. You are the one in the document, not just reviewing it.
• Work hands-on with design and engineering to take ideas from concept to launch and beyond. Pairing with designers in Figma, breaking complex problems into shippable steps, and staying in the build through release while supporting your features post-launch.
• Powerfully prioritize features by impact on student outcomes and adoption, balancing teacher and school-leader needs against engineering reality, and clearly articulating the rationale behind each call.
• Become the expert on educators. Use classroom data, teacher interviews, feedback from Customer Success and dashboard usage to synthesize requirements that genuinely make a teacher's day easier and a principal's school-improvement work more visible.
• Define, track, and analyze the metrics that tell you whether a feature worked, including adoption, Short Learning Cycles start and completion rates, and pre/post growth as well as feed that back into the roadmap.
• Partner cross-functionally with content/curriculum, go-to-market, customer success, and engineering so school-side releases land with the training, collateral, and support they need.
• Own Go-to-Market Collaborating with the VP of Product, be the go-to person for marketing related activities for your given features
• Keep compliance in view. Build with student-data privacy expectations (FERPA, COPPA, GDPR-equivalents) as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid by the company.
• a generous paid time off program that includes both vacation and personal days.
• a hybrid work environment, empowering you to thrive with the flexibility of remote and in-office collaboration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed