Product Manager

The Achievement Network • Boston, MA

13d • $114,750 - $191,250 • Remote

About The Position

ANet is looking for a strategic Product Manager to build tools that drive educational equity. Sitting at the intersection of user needs, technical feasibility, and organizational strategy, the Product Manager will translate complex priorities into a high-impact roadmap for educators and students. The Product Manager will lead highly cross-functional work with stakeholders in our Product, Engineering, Assessment, Operations, Implementation Success, and Revenue teams. The Product Manager will improve organizational clarity, facilitate difficult trade-offs, and elevate ANet’s product practice. Successful candidates will bring strong strategic judgment, be a systems-thinker who thrives in ambiguity, and will turn organizational vision into high-quality execution that ultimately results in improved outcomes for educators and students.

Requirements

• 6+ years in product management, with a track record of owning complex initiatives and significant organizational decisions.
• Ability to turn ambiguous goals and user needs into actionable roadmaps and technical execution plans in an agile environment.
• Deep understanding of software development and how product decisions impact interconnected workflows and organizational priorities.
• Commitment to mastering complex operations and staying current on market trends and emerging technologies.
• Ability to distill complex qualitative and quantitative data into strategic insights and actionable recommendations.
• Experience using user insights, market context, and operational realities to influence prioritization and direction.
• Ability to identify critical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to guide effective leadership decisions, even in ambiguous environments.
• Skilled at evaluating decisions through the lenses of equity, sustainability, technical feasibility, and user impact.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale initiatives involving diverse stakeholders, competing priorities, and evolving constraints.
• Strong organizational skills that balance short-term execution needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Proactive approach to identifying dependencies, mitigating execution risks, and maintaining momentum across large bodies of work.
• Demonstrated ownership of outcomes and the ability to drive follow-through when challenges arise.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills with the ability to translate complex strategic rationale for diverse audiences.
• Ability to facilitate difficult conversations, surface trade-offs transparently, and build consensus among stakeholders with differing perspectives.
• Strong listening skills and the ability to foster psychologically safe environments for effective problem-solving.
• Proven ability to influence organizational direction through thoughtful, high-integrity communication.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in K–12 education, educational technology, nonprofit organizations, or mission-driven organizations
• Experience building products or systems that support educators, school systems, or instructional improvement
• Familiarity with assessment, curriculum, reporting, analytics, or instructional technology products
• Experience operating in highly collaborative and matrixed organizational environments

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle, from discovery to launch, translating market trends and user insights into a clear, multi-year roadmap that balances impact with technical and financial stewardship.
• Define success metrics and synthesize qualitative/quantitative data to frame critical questions, surfacing the trade-offs and dependencies necessary to guide leadership through complex prioritization.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Content, Assessment, Operations, and partner-facing teams to drive seamless execution. Lead rollouts and launches, with proactive change management and implementation risk implications.
• Communicate a compelling product vision to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring senior leaders and cross-functional teams are aligned on sequencing and strategy.
• Maximize organizational focus by identifying opportunities to simplify or sunset lower-value workflows and investments while staying current on EdTech best practices and emerging tech.
• Establish and scale robust systems for product discovery, roadmap management, and stakeholder communication to improve organizational clarity around ownership and decision-making.
• Identify and resolve process gaps and operational friction points, strengthening collaboration across teams and managing dependencies with transparency and structure.
• Elevate ANet’s product management practice by establishing operating norms and a learning culture centered on user-centered problem solving and evidence-based decisions.
• Coach colleagues across functions on product development best practices while fostering an inclusive environment of direct communication and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance where ANet pays a portion of the cost of these benefits for employees and their families/domestic partner
• generous paid time-off including 10 paid holidays and paid days off between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays
• paid parental leave
• educational expenses reimbursements
• flexible spending accounts
• professional development
• a 401(k) plan with a 4% match
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life and personal accident insurance

What This Job Offers

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