Senior Product Manager, Learning Products (Private Markets)

CFA Institute•Charlottesville, VA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

CFA Institute is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and evolution of their Private Markets certificate learning products. This is a market-facing role where the individual will define product strategy, connect customer needs with business priorities, and build impactful learning products for investment professionals globally. The role reports to the Director, Product Management, and is part of the Education portfolio, collaborating with various cross-functional teams including product marketing, curriculum, exams, technology, business development, and senior management. Success hinges on market-informed product strategy, learning product expertise, and the ability to align teams around product decisions.

Requirements

Product management or product marketing experience with clear ownership of product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, business cases or product solutions.
Experience working with digital learning, EdTech, certification, professional education, assessment, content-led products or a comparable digital product environment.
Evidence of conducting customer or market discovery, such as interviews, voice-of-customer work, market analysis, product data review or business development insight gathering.
Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs, market trends and data into product vision, prioritised requirements, roadmap decisions or customer experience improvements.
Data fluency, including experience analysing product performance, customer behaviour, engagement, adoption, market or commercial data to inform recommendations.
Cross-functional product delivery experience with partners such as curriculum/content, product marketing, technology, exams, support, business development or senior leadership.
Confident communication and stakeholder influence, including presenting recommendations, trade-offs, business cases or product direction to senior audiences.
Comfort operating independently in ambiguity, with curiosity to learn specialist subject matter through market engagement and internal subject matter experts.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to financial services, investment management or Private Markets.
Familiarity with learning platforms, customer analytics tools, Jira, Microsoft tools or AI-enabled productivity tools.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Private Markets certificate learning products, ensuring alignment with market needs and organisational priorities.
Act as the voice of the customer through continuous market research, stakeholder engagement, business development input and industry insight.
Translate customer needs, market trends and product data into clear product vision, business cases, prioritised requirements and roadmap decisions.
Partner with curriculum, product marketing, technology, exams, support, business development and general management teams to deliver high-impact learning solutions.
Influence senior stakeholders through clear, data-informed storytelling and practical product recommendations.
Identify product opportunities and help drive innovation across the certificate learning portfolio.
Analyse product performance, customer behaviour and market evidence to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.
Represent the product perspective in external or market-facing conversations where customer and industry insight can shape product direction.