Job Title: Product Manager

Reports To: VP, Product Management

Department: Product Management

Location: USA-Remote

Salary: $110,000-$130,000 USD

Job Overview:

Be part of building a world-class product organization. Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding of a global end-to-end platform for our language proficiency assessment lines within transforming assessment/achievement measurement business. Develop and maintain vision and product roadmaps based on customer needs through research, user forums, advisory boards, and other methods needed to obtain market information. Build the product of the future while staying ahead of the competition.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

· Develop a mastery of market dynamics and anticipate future trends through direct research, collaboration with company leadership and subject matter experts, and direct customer interaction.

· Deliver an overall strategic vision and product roadmap for assigned product lines, including proper prioritization to maximize impact to the customer and ROI.

· Prepare and drive P&L and key financial metrics for assigned product areas gathering input from sales, marketing, finance, and technology partners.

· Manage and develop Product Owners for assigned scrum teams.

· Lead a scrum team of Product Owners / Business Analysts, developers, and QA resources to execute the strategic vision with quality and speed.

· Demonstrate and champion user-centered design principles, including developing user personas, journey maps / workflows.

· Leverage both educational and non-educational product experiences to resolve a wide range of issues in creative, scalable ways.

· Provide thought leadership around identified needs and possible solutions.

· Work closely with other Product Managers and UI/UX team to ensure a consistent user experience across applications.

· Develop and share a deep understanding of the user stories and workflows to be developed, to empower the design and development teams to actively participate in the solution.

· Own and develop relationship with partners, working with them to optimize and enhance our integration offerings.

· Participate in design, development, testing, and deployment.

· Serve as an evangelist for the product, including delivering demonstrations and other presentations in internal sessions and to end users or potential clients.

· Collaborate with the Product Marketing and Enablement to ensure proper go-to-market and positioning of products.

· Introduce new products and features by developing time-integrated plans with sales and marketing including delivering training and demo scripts.

· Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications

· Assist in developing product pricing and pricing models

· Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Essential Criteria:

· Bachelor’s degree or above

· Previous work experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, or User-Centered Design Roles (5+ years of experience)

· Experience with an educational technology, or similar experience with assessment products solution preferred

· Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills

· The knowledge to analyze KPIs and understand trends

Desirable Criteria:

· Ability to work individually and as part of the team in a fast-paced, agile environment

· Familiarity with market research, consumers’ behavior, and marketing techniques

· Good communication skills along with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams

· Organization and confidence to work independently but also a strong team player