Senior Manager, Product - Literacy
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Great MindsK-12 Education
United StatesFull-TimeManager
Salary140,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7 years
- Required Skills
- Data AnalysisProduct ManagementStakeholder managementMarket Research
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience working in education publishing with a track record of success in product development, digital product management, curriculum development and/or project management, preferably in the K-12 education market.
- At least 3 years of experience directly leading and developing a team of Product Managers or similar product professionals.
- Deep respect for and alignment to the philosophy, instructional design, and pedagogy of Great Minds' knowledge-building vision.
- Demonstrated ability to set strategy and priorities across a multi-product portfolio, not just within a single product line.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including customers, sales team, content development teams, product marketing, and senior leadership that require a sophisticated level of sensitivity and excellent judgment.
- Strong analytical thinking and decision-making skills to anticipate challenges, issues, or opportunities across a portfolio of products.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to think about ROI, strategic pricing, and the potential value of ideas to help the team and the portfolio prioritize where and how to spend limited resources.
- Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic vision and roadmap for the Literacy State Adoption product portfolio, ensuring every product decision reflects the instructional research and literacy instructional model at the core of Great Minds' approach.
- Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers, setting clear expectations, growing their strategic and technical judgment, and holding the team accountable to a high bar of rigor and craft.
- Set priorities across products, balancing near-term delivery against long-term strategic bets, and resolve tradeoffs when individual product plans compete for shared resources.
- Partner with the content and research teams to reflect the instructional research and the literacy instructional model in the product design and development process across the portfolio.
- Direct end-to-end product lifecycle activities, including: market research, competitive analysis, product strategy and design, scope and roadmap development, pricing, and launch.
- Synthesize customer feedback, product analytics, and competitive market data into a portfolio-wide view, translating that view into clear prioritization recommendations for senior leadership.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Content, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Design, and Operations to keep portfolio vision and execution aligned.
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