Product Manager (EdTech)

eDynamic Learning

6d•$85,000 - $95,000

About The Position

The Product Manager owns the vision, roadmap, and commercial success of an assigned subject portfolio within a for-profit K-12 publishing/edtech company. This is a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves role focused on product decision making, market fit, and business outcomes. This position brings together publishing, education, and business, and is distinct from curriculum design or technical product ownership. requires the Product Manager to balance strategy, discovery, decision making, and execution to deliver high quality products for students and teachers that align to business goals. Responsibilities do not include managing engineering work, writing user stories, or running sprints.

Requirements

Minimum of 1-2 years experience in a business-focused role involving product management, educational publishing, or edtech.
Skilled at making business-driven product decisions, including investment choices, tradeoffs, and prioritization.
Experience working in a for-profit organization where product decisions are tied to revenue, state adoptions, or market demand.
Experience working cross-functionally.
Experience supporting Sales and Marketing teams.
Strong business and product acumen; able to evaluate tradeoffs with scope, timing, cost, and market impact.
Ability to create business cases using data, customer insights, and business rationale.
Comfortable making decisions under ambiguous circumstances.
Skilled with translating marketing feedback into product direction and action.
Ability to prioritize work based on impact.
Clear, confident communicator who can converse with the Executive team, Sales team, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Results-oriented mindset with accountability for outcomes.
Self-starter.

Nice To Haves

Background in teaching and education is welcome if paired with demonstrated business-oriented publishing work.

Responsibilities

Own product vision for Business and Marketing courseware, select elective courseware, and a middle school career exploration supplement.
Understand internal business drivers and priorities.
Determine new products to develop, refresh, and enhance.
Monitor market trends and competitors’ offerings.
Evaluate product trends.
Gather product insights from external and internal customers and translate insights into actionable product recommendations and roadmap decisions.
Plan products and oversee development, including budgets.
Recruit subject matter experts to write and/or contribute to the product.
Collaborate with product team, project management, technical and platform teams.
Serve as the product expert for Sales and Marketing teams.