Senior Product Manager - Math

Great Minds•Dc, DC

26d•Remote

About The Position

Great Minds is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead products across the full product lifecycle in their math product line. This role is crucial for ensuring alignment with Great Minds’ mission of serving all students with high-quality, knowledge-building instructional materials. The Senior Product Manager will act as the voice of the customer, utilizing market research, user insights, and data-driven analysis to shape roadmap, scope, and go-to-market strategy. This individual will lead projects by fostering alignment with cross-functional teams, resolving competing priorities, and driving decisions forward. The ideal candidate is a product leader who believes in coherence as a philosophy and can implement it across Content, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Design, and Operations. They should have experience taking education products from concept to classroom, prioritize evidence over opinion, and elevate product craft within their teams. This leader thrives in a mission-driven environment that values urgency, rigor, and accountability.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in education publishing or K-12 edtech, with a track record of success in product management, digital product development, and/or curriculum development; experience with K-12 math products strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to drive alignment and progress across teams without direct authority over them, including managing competing priorities and resolving conflict between stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience gathering and synthesizing user research, product analytics, and market data to drive product decisions.
Deep respect for and alignment to the philosophy, instructional design, and pedagogy of Great Minds’ knowledge-building vision.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, including customers, sales teams, content development teams, product marketing, and senior leadership, requiring a sophisticated level of sensitivity and excellent judgment.
Strong analytical thinking and decision-making skills to anticipate challenges, issues, and opportunities.
Strong business acumen, with the ability to think about ROI and the potential value of ideas to help the team prioritize where and how to spend limited resources.
Fluency in modern product development practices, including Agile and human-centered design.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
Deep belief that every child is capable of greatness.
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Own products in the math portfolio end to end, developing and maintaining the vision, roadmap, scope, and release plans in alignment with the long-range plan.
Support the development of the product vision, including research, market mapping, competitive analysis, market opportunity sizing, and strategic development.
Execute end-to-end product lifecycle activities, including market research, competitive analysis, product strategy and design, scope and roadmap development, pricing analysis, and launch.
Collaborate with the Content team to develop and execute product strategy related to state adoptions, sampling, and open-territory and large-district opportunities.
Serve as the voice of the customer: conduct user interviews, coordinate classroom pilots and user testing, and validate product decisions with evidence from educators and students.
Synthesize customer feedback, product analytics, and competitive market data into clear prioritization recommendations for Math product leadership.
Partner with the content and research teams to reflect the instructional research and the math instructional model in the product design and development process.
Lead rigorous discovery, human-centered design, and evidence-based decision-making.
Drive cross-functional alignment for the projects you lead, making decisions and unblocking progress across Content, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Design, and Operations.
Serve as the connective tissue across cross-functional teams, keeping vision and execution aligned even where authority is shared rather than direct.
Provide oversight and ensure alignment between the instructional philosophy, content development, and Great Minds’ digital platform in the delivery of features and customer experience.
Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues, including those that sit across team boundaries, that may impair the organization’s ability to meet its strategic, financial, and technical goals.
Drive the budgeting process for your projects, ensuring business and classroom needs are met, prioritizing and proposing tradeoffs where necessary.
Monitor the budget for the projects you lead, managing scope changes for budget impact, advocating for funding when appropriate, and surfacing risks and recommended remedies to leadership.
Own post-launch performance of the product, including adoption, usage, retention, and renewal metrics, and use those signals to inform enhancements and roadmap recommendations.