Senior Product Manager, Platform

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Amplify Education · Remote (USA)

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Education
$135,000 - $150,000 Per Year
Posted 2 weeks ago

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A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

 

We’re seeking a Senior Product Manager with a strong design sense and comfort with modern software development to expand the capabilities and reach of the digital platform that powers interactive learning experiences. As part of our platform product team, the Senior Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, design, content authors, marketing and other cross-functional teams to shape and execute our product roadmap. An ideal candidate is passionate about building an excellent and equitable experience for educators and students.

 

Essential Responsibilities: 

Be a team leader. 

  • Empower your team to take on the highest impact work by continuously sharing insights and context.  

  • Serve as a collaborative leader of your cross-functional team to plan, develop, design, test, and deliver exceptional features.

  • Participate in agile ceremonies and shape up processes. 

 

Communicate across the organization.

  • Track progress toward successful delivery, raising potential issues and working proactively to resolve them.

  • Deeply understand and share your product’s features, content, user experience, and relationship to the broader product ecosystem with others. 

  • Lead the communication around new features, including working with marketing and customer success teams to ensure a successful and smooth release. 

 

Develop exceptional products.

  • Determine key problems to solve in collaboration with product leadership by becoming familiar with Amplify’s long term goals and how product improvements help us meet those goals. 

  • Write pitches for many new potential projects. 

  • Advocate for reliable, accessible, and equitable design and development practices. 

  • Partner with data science and user research to set and review metrics, identifying patterns and developing hypotheses for improvements. 

  • Distill insights from competitors in the education market and broader digital product space. 

 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree

  • 5+ years of experience in product management

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills that facilitate a healthy team culture.

  • Ability to develop new features from initial shaping of the problem space through solutioning and delivery. 

  • Ability to leverage research to effectively prioritize opportunities and evaluate success post-release. 

  • Ability to identify examples of intuitive, delightful software design that drive the success of a product.

  • Proven experience developing deep expertise in a specific area of a product and connecting to overarching product vision.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience as an educator

  • Experience with community-driven platforms and features

  • Background in technology, design, user research, or curriculum development
     

 

 

 

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a lucrative 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross annualized salary range for this role is $135,000 - $150,000. This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

 

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

 

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. 

 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

 

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

 

If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints.

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