Vice President of Product Development

Springboard Collaborative

8h•Remote

About The Position

Springboard Collaborative closes the opportunity gap by closing the gap between home and school. By enlisting families as teaching partners, Springboard increases students’ access to instructional time, thereby improving learning outcomes. We envision a world in which educators and families work together to help children unlock their full potential. The Product Development Leader supports this goal through continuous product improvement that fuels academic development and meets the evolving needs of districts, teachers, parents, and students. The Product Development Leader will supervise the Curriculum and Instruction leader, the Product Engineering leader, the Program Services leader, and four product owners. The Product Development Leader will report to the President and work as part of the Senior Leadership Team. This is a great opportunity to support an entrepreneurial team to maximize the impact of a rapidly growing organization.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive product management experience in a fast-paced environment, with a proven track record of driving products from initial strategy through successful market delivery.
5+ years of direct people management experience with a proven ability to attract top-tier talent, restructure teams in accordance with evolving strategic goals, and mentor teams.
Impeccable verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills shown through demonstrated experience working directly with educational C-suite-level stakeholders.
Experience leading/collaborating with curriculum development and engineering teams, showing the ability to engage credibly and balance long-term technical feasibility and scalability with near-term product velocity.
Experience partnering with Go-to-Market stakeholders to support pilots, state adoptions, and sales-led or product-led growth motions.
Deep knowledge of the K-12 educational landscape and a strong understanding of the science of learning, instructional design, and curriculum development.
Proficient in Agile, Scrum, and Human-Centered Design frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the delivery of educational services

Responsibilities

Responsible for the adoption and fidelity of a new decision making framework and ways of working cross functionally, called the Pillars and Capabilities decision framework, across the Product Development team.
Identify and execute improvement opportunities that result from an externally managed randomized control trial aiming to evaluate program efficacy and establish external credibility of our model.
Integrate the Program Services team into the product development team, and support their acclimation into development ways of working and operating procedures.
Ensure our new Family App and Program Fidelity App are ready to extend the value of our programming, and drive utility, satisfaction, and outcomes.
Own the strategic product portfolio and oversee product lifecycle execution to drive on-time feature delivery and learning outcomes.
Act as the strategic bridge between Program Development, Curriculum & Instruction, and Technology teams; ensuring that science of learning, instructional design, and rigorous evidence of student outcomes directly drive product design.
Define and maintain a unified, multi-year product lifecycle roadmap that balances component-level roadmaps with platform-wide strategies.
Lead and manage the product development teams, individual contributors, and departmental resources.
Recruit, mentor, and coach a highly skilled, mission-driven team, establishing a high-performance culture grounded in intellectual honesty, speed, and customer empathy.
Manage and optimize the annual departmental budget to maximize product development margins and ensure a positive budget variance.
Champion an outcome-driven culture where the team prioritizes OKRs (student development, retention, and family/educator engagement) over raw feature output.
Own the team operating playbook and elevate the discipline of product management through strong leadership and consistent reinforcement of best practices.
In collaboration with the Project Management Office and agile/scrum facilitators, maintain consistent, lightweight agile rituals, artifacts, and communication patterns that maintain momentum.
Oversee the development and maintenance of customer-facing technology.
Lead engineering and product owners on core architecture decisions, product/system performance, trade-offs, and critical build-vs-buy evaluations.
Ensure all digital software is architected for seamless institutional deployment. Enforce strict student data privacy policies and ensure the digital product portfolio complies with accessibility standards.
Ensure product development is aligned with go-to-market initiatives and delivery.
Collaborate with executive leaders to design, experiment with, and deploy strategic pricing and packaging models.
Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to coordinate successful launches, pilot recruitment, pricing tests, and comprehensive post-launch enablement.
Responsible for understanding and driving product efficacy through continuous product discovery, rapid prototyping, and customer feedback loops that validate investments before scaling development.
Define, instrument, and track product performance metrics to guide post-launch roadmap adjustments.
Maintain a rigorous system of continuous user testing, cohort analyses, and classroom pilots to translate customer insights and pain points into actionable roadmap improvements.
Lead continuous market mapping and competitive analysis to identify product differentiators, whitespace opportunities, and emerging educational service/product/technology trends.

Benefits

Medical insurance with a cash stipend for those who waive Springboard coverage. Options include PPO and High Deductible/HSA.
Short & long-term disability coverage fully covered.
403(b) retirement contributions matched up to 6% of salary after the first twelve months.
Four weeks (20 days) of Paid Time Off (PTO) annually, accessible at the start of the calendar year.
11 federal holidays, two extra floating holidays, weekdays between December 25th - January 1st, and your birthday.
Unlimited sick days.
Parental Leave (12 weeks after the first 6 months of employment).
Marriage Leave (five days).
Springboard laptop and an optional monitor.
Personal & professional development funding of $2000/year.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for support with various personal and professional issues.
Regular opportunities to discuss individual and organizational development and commitment to equity.
Consistent and structured real-time feedback.