Product Manager

Modern Classrooms Project • Washington, DC

23d • $160,000 - $185,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Modern Classrooms Project is seeking an outstanding Product Manager to own the continued iteration and development of their first proprietary software product, an AI-powered tool for mastery assessment. This is a foundational product-management role where the individual will be building the product management discipline from scratch. The Product Manager will shape what is built, why it is built, and how it reaches classrooms, acting as the voice of the teacher and student. The role involves taking a product from early pilots to broad adoption and making teachers more effective while helping students succeed.

Requirements

• Built products from scratch, taking a software product from zero to real users.
• Experience in product management, including roles owning product vision, roadmap, and go-to-market.
• Ability to define a product-market fit hypothesis, discipline a roadmap, and say no to ideas that are not the right fit for the current time.
• Real UX design skills, including the ability to produce wireframes, build clickable prototypes, and test them with users.
• Understanding of information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility.
• Experience establishing delivery frameworks, facilitating sprint planning, managing scope, and keeping cross-functional teams coordinated.
• Motivation to be part of something larger than oneself and use talent to empower others.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI-powered products and understanding of product management challenges unique to AI/LLM systems (prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, model selection, communicating probabilistic outputs).
• Light software development skills to build quick prototypes or functional proofs of concept.
• Experience in education technology (ideally K-12) and understanding of constraints like school-issued devices, district IT restrictions, limited training time, and the rhythm of a school day.

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing development of the AI-powered mastery-assessment product.
• Report to the Chief Innovation Officer and collaborate closely with the CEO, Head of Engineering, and teams across the organization.
• Help define product strategy and do the hands-on work of defining requirements, designing experiences, and driving execution.
• Help set the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for MCP's mastery-assessment tool, working directly with the CEO and CIO to define what to build, in what order, and why.
• Establish the product direction and ensure every feature on the roadmap traces back to organizational goals and mission.
• Be the voice of the teacher and the student in every product decision by conducting market research, competitive analysis, teacher interviews, and shadowing classrooms.
• Refine the user experience by producing wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, defining information architecture, designing interaction patterns, and validating on target devices.
• Own the design system, the visual language for mastery status, and the content design.
• Validate the product-market fit hypothesis by establishing KPI frameworks, building unit economics models, designing feedback collection systems, and setting clear success criteria.
• Establish the delivery framework and cadence by setting up and managing the work system (sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives), defining scope, maintaining a rolling look-ahead, and keeping the team focused on high-impact work.
• Support cross-functional go-to-market execution by coordinating product launches, onboarding documentation, teacher training readiness, support channel setup, partner communication, and post-launch evaluation.
• Manage risk, dependencies, and cross-team coordination by identifying technical rollout requirements, tracking dependencies, running checklists, coordinating feature rollouts, and mitigating single points of failure.
• Help build the product management discipline at MCP by establishing practices, artifacts, and rhythms that will scale as the team grows.

Benefits

• Salaried position: $160,000-$185,000 gross salary per year
• Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Participation in Vanguard 403(b) deferred-compensation plan with 3% employer match
• Paid Time Off, inclusive of: vacation/PTO (20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick and safe paid time off, "Me Days", and the ability to earn paid Comp time off
• Annual budget for MCP-funded Continuous Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
• Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
• Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)

What This Job Offers

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