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About this role

We’re hiring Product Leads to build the next generation of Coteach. These are high-agency roles with deep ownership — you’ll set the vision for your area, form hypotheses about what teachers and students need, run experiments to test them, ship the things that work, and drive adoption across our partner districts.

The roadmap includes deepening our offering across math and ELA, all in close partnership with leading curriculum publishers like Illustrative Mathematics and EL Education. On the assessment side, we’re designing an AI-native, curriculum-aligned assessment system from the ground up – including better support for handwritten student work, and bridging state exams and the curriculum teachers actually use.

You will

• Get out of the building. Talk to teachers, sit in their classrooms, watch students use the product. Read transcripts and traces. Form hypotheses about what’s broken or missing, then test them with real users every week.
• Prototype first, hand off second. Use Claude Code, Replit, Figma to spin up working artifacts that show people what you mean. Most weeks you’ll build something yourself and get it in front of teachers in days, not weeks. When something needs to scale or harden, hand off to engineering with a clear spec.
• Define what good looks like. For your domain, you’ll set the quality bar: the instructional principles, examples, anti-examples, rubrics, failure modes, and product behaviors we use to decide whether something is ready. Evals, prompts, and skills are shared work across the team, but you are the person sharpening the taste and judgment behind them.
• Shape skills, prompts, and evals. You’ll write and refine skills, tune prompts, help build eval frameworks, review outputs, and decide where the system is strong enough — and where it still falls short.
• Drive adoption. Shipping is half the job. The other half is making sure teachers actually use what you built — running pilots with partner districts, sitting in on PD, supporting implementation, presenting at conferences, and folding what you learn back into the next iteration.
• Be the pedagogical voice for your area. Internally and externally. You’re how Coteach earns the right to be in math, ELA, or assessment conversations with publishers, district leaders, and the field at large.

What you bring

• A track record of shipping and driving adoption. You know how to move from idea to prototype to real usage. You’ve put unfinished things in front of users, learned quickly from what worked and what didn’t, and kept pushing until the product became genuinely useful.
• Strong product sense. You have opinions about what good software feels like, and you can articulate them. You know when to polish and when to ship rough.
• Enough technical chops to prototype. You don’t need to be a senior engineer, but you do need to be able to put a working artifact in front of a user.
• Humility, and deep belief in the mission. You treat teachers, students, and partner organizations with respect. You’d rather get to the right answer than be right.
• Comfort operating in an early-stage environment. You’re energized by work where the path is not always obvious. You can bring clarity to messy problems, make good judgment calls, and help the team move quickly without losing thoughtfulness.

Preferred (not required)

• Classroom teaching experience in math, ELA, or another subject.
• Time spent at an edtech, curriculum, or assessment organization — as a PM, content lead, designer, or operator.
• You’ve started something of your own — a company, a product, a side project.
• Familiarity with high-quality instructional materials in math or literacy, and the educator communities around them.

Compensation & structure

Compensation is $12,000–$16,000/month depending on role and experience. We expect most roles at this stage to be contract-based due to our current funding model. In select cases, we may be able to consider a full-time structure for the right candidate.

We have team members in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle, so candidates in those cities will have opportunities to work together in person. That said, we’re open to fully remote for the right person. This role will also require regular travel to our district partners, to conferences, and for team gatherings.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification. Great candidates come from a variety of backgrounds, and research shows underrepresented applicants often underestimate their readiness. If you’re excited about this work, we want to hear from you.

About Coteach

Coteach plugs directly into the curricula and assessment data teachers already use, so it can actually help with the hard parts of the job — internalizing tomorrow's lesson, differentiating for the students who need it, building targeted supports, and a lot more. One year in, and tens of thousands of teachers across 1,000+ districts are using Coteach, and we have big plans for year two!