Senior Product Manager at Zearn (Remote)

Date Posted: Jun 12, 2024

Salary: $130,000 - $150,000 per year

Location: USA

About Zearn

Zearn is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to fostering a love of math in all students. Our mission is to ensure every child views themselves as a math kid. Our acclaimed learning platform helps students catch up and advance in math by delivering grade-level content, proven to yield notable gains in math proficiency, even for those starting behind.

Operating at the intersection of education and technology, Zearn tackles complex challenges to impact future generations. We thrive on collaboration across disciplines including teaching, learning science, software development, design, and video production. Join us if you are a problem-solver eager to make a sizable impact.

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Role Overview: Senior Product Manager

As a Senior Product Manager at Zearn, you will collaborate with product leaders, engineers, designers, and educators to develop seamless user experiences for educators. Your main responsibilities include:

Empowering Innovation

• Lead product discovery through research, ideation, rapid prototyping, and user testing.
• Use data, user feedback, and market research to assess and optimize the product roadmap.
• Generate creative solutions to meet user needs.
• Create low fidelity sketches and collaborate to develop wireframes and prototypes.
• Work alongside engineering to refine product viability and address risks.
• Mitigate go-to-market risks throughout the solutioning process.

Managing Product Development

• Ensure the team focuses on high-priority tasks aligned with Zearn's mission.
• Translate user needs into detailed product requirements and timelines.
• Develop wireframes into intuitive, accessible products in collaboration with design.
• Remove development roadblocks and deliver features on time.
• Facilitate quick, data-driven iteration cycles post-launch.

Building Cross-Functional Relationships

• Anticipate and communicate dependencies and execution risks.
• Tailor communications to ensure clarity across teams.
• Prepare go-to-market collateral.

Key Challenges

• Optimize Zearn’s reporting suite for District and School leaders.
• Create seamless onboarding experiences for educators and families.
• Enhance educator engagement with the platform.
• Develop strategies for account management amid changing purchasing policies.
• Leverage new technologies like generative AI to scale impact.
• Continuously improve team processes and cross-functional collaboration.

Required Skills

• Leadership: Aligning teams, problem-solving, and organization.
• Communication: Sharing perspectives productively and with structure.
• Insight Generation: Utilizing customer feedback, research, and analyses to foster ideas.
• Problem Solving: Building networks and leading various problem-solving approaches.
• Project Management: Goal-setting, meeting organization, and deadline execution.
• Process Management: Continuously enhancing team workflows and processes.

Experience

• 8+ years of work experience, including 3+ years in Product Management or similar fields.
• Extensive collaboration with stakeholders at all levels.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.

Working at Zearn

• Zearn fosters a transparent, collaborative culture open to feedback.
• Product development is dynamic, fast-paced, and quality-focused with dedicated time for research and team syncs.
• Teams are organized around problem spaces, with regular cross-functional meetings to drive product success.
• Continuous improvement of systems and processes is a core value.

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