Product Manager

Primer • San Francisco, CA

14d • Onsite

About The Position

Primer is a growing network of K–8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers, thinkers, and builders, our schools begin with what has always worked, and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.
PrimerOS is the software, AI, and data layer that powers how Primer operates. Unlike traditional edtech companies, Primer operates its own schools—opening campuses, hiring educators, supporting families, tracking student growth, and helping teachers run great classrooms every day. As Primer grows, its biggest challenge is operating many more excellent schools without scaling the number of humans required to run them at the same rate. This role is about turning the messy, magical reality of schools into systems that make Primer more consistent, more scalable, and more human. Every minute we give back to a teacher is a minute spent with kids.
This role is based in our San Francisco office, working closely with product, engineering, operations, and Academics teams—and spending time inside our schools with teachers, understanding how they actually work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Experience building products for complex, physical workflows
• Strong product taste.
• Comfort working in messy, real-world environments. You like sitting with operators, watching how work actually happens, and finding the hidden bottlenecks.
• Analytical enough to reason from data, practical enough to know when the truth is in the field.
• Ability to own projects end to end — from problem discovery and strategy to specs, launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Clear writing and structured thinking.
• Excited to work on-site in San Francisco.

Nice To Haves

• Diverse backgrounds — whether in education, healthcare, logistics, marketplaces, compliance, field operations, or something entirely different. Anything that taught you how complex human systems really work.

Responsibilities

• Take the daily reality of running schools and turn it into simple, useful products.
• Build systems that help teams understand campus health, surface issues before they escalate, reduce administrative work for educators, or help operators make better decisions across a growing network.
• Own projects from early discovery through launch—spending time with campus leaders, market teams, educators, and central operators to understand where work breaks down, then partnering with engineering to build those tools.
• Run time studies on campus and obsess over the 30 seconds tech can hand back to a teacher.
• Answer questions like: How do we operate 10x more schools with only 2x the operational headcount? How do we know when a campus needs support before it becomes obvious? How can AI reduce repetitive work while strengthening human judgment? How do we make school operations feel lighter, clearer, and more consistent for the people doing the work?
• Help set the standards for how we build products, how we use AI, and how software changes the way our schools operate.

What This Job Offers

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