Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Nerdy, a leading platform for live online learning, as a Principal Product Manager. You will leverage data to understand customer and business needs, drive product vision and strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Success requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience with consumer software products, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will build roadmaps, prioritize opportunities, and use data to measure success. This role offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, healthcare, 401k matching, parental leave, and a remote work option.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product and/or business leadership experience, specifically working on or adjacent to consumer software products
• Superior analytical and quantitative skills; experience getting and using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
• Self-starter with a strong bias for action and the ability to drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable with a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems with high attention to detail
• Excellent collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels

Responsibilities

• Use data and information, both qualitative and quantitative, to analyze and deeply understand customer and business needs
• Drive product vision, strategy, technical requirements, and ultimately deliver on desired timelines
• Build roadmap and requirements and continuously prioritize to ensure we’re addressing the right problems and opportunities at the right time with the right level of fidelity (MVPs and scaled solutions)
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to build, test, measure, and drive results, including engineering, data science, design, marketing, sales, operations, and executive leadership
• Drive adoption of features or products, including features meant to engage and cater the purchase process to the prospective client
• Execute autonomously against business and team objectives. Be willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done
• Proactively set targets, define and track success metrics that ladder to business objectives, and adjust as appropriate as new information is available
• Plan, write, and lead periodic business reviews with business partners and executive leadership
• Evaluate new product opportunities (both buy and build solutions) and bring forward proposals to expand product and business capabilities
• Conduct competitive research and analysis
• Represent what customers need and where the market is going. Tell this story compellingly to bring others along
• Partner with design to help customers achieve their learning objectives by building high performance, conversion-oriented UX

Preferred Qualifications

Management experience is a plus

Benefits

• Total Compensation Package including Competitive Salary and Equity (Restricted Stock Units) in the company
• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401k Company Matching Plan
• Maternity, Paternal, and Adoption Leave
• Remote Position
• Flexible PTO
• Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)
• Unique opportunity to help transform how the world learns!