Director of Product

Summary

Join Kiddom as a Director of Product, ELA and be part of a collaborative team building an impactful educational platform. You will drive the development of high-quality, user-friendly ELA curricula, focusing on accessibility and improved student outcomes. This role involves strategic planning, product lifecycle management, navigating state adoption requirements, and collaborating with various teams. You will champion innovative tools and transition traditional paper-based curricula to a digital experience. The ideal candidate possesses extensive product management experience, ideally within education or edtech, and a passion for improving education.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in product management
• Demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of a product: both digital and physical goods
• The ability to balance stakeholder needs, market opportunity, innovation, and moving quickly
• The ability to influence, lead, motivate, justify, and simplify

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on your product area (ELA) through market research, GTM feedback, data driven insights, creating product differentiation to most impactfully serve customer needs
• Develop a strategic plan for building a best-in-class ELA product in partnership with Partner curriculum. You will propose the principles, roadmap, resourcing structure, and go-to-market approach necessary to realize an engaging, impactful, and scalable ELA product solution
• Responsible for guiding products throughout the state adoption cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions for districts across the country
• Experiment with new tools to advance the boundaries of how education leaders understand and guide their schools, staff, and students
• Transition a traditionally paper driven curricular experience to a transformative best in class digital experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally experience in both Education and Education Technology
• Experience at a quickly growing startup

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• 10 paid sick days per year
• Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year
• Paid family leave for eligible employees