Product Manager

Summary

Join Renaissance®, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, and contribute to the development and execution of the Freckle product vision. As a product manager, you will collaborate with product teams to enhance the learning experience for teachers, students, and administrators. Your work will focus on building tooling to support internal stakeholders across product, engineering, curriculum, and sales, enabling data-driven decisions, unlocking cross-product opportunities, and ensuring rapid delivery of user experiences. You will also support features that provide teachers with better information, save them time, and make them Freckle advocates; engage students in learning; and help them persevere through challenges. Your contributions will directly impact millions of students, accelerating learning and improving their lives. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant contribution to a mission-driven company.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience in software product management, data science, product design, or related role
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal, written, presentation) and a collaborative nature, including listening skills
• Critical thinking and analytical abilities; experience with BI/analytics tools and SQL
• High degree of empathy for those within and beyond the team, including K-12 students
• Passion for shipping the best products and achieving the best outcomes for users and customers

Responsibilities

• Support them in making data-driven decisions in line with our portfolio strategy, user needs, and market expectations
• Unlock cross-product opportunities with the rest of the Renaissance Ecosystem
• Enable them to continuously deliver user experiences and business outcomes at an exceptional speed
• Give them better information about how to reach their students where they most need help
• Give them more time to spend on the most important parts of their job
• Make them advocates for Freckle when talking to their peers and administrators
• Engage them in ideas and problems in Math, English, Social Studies, and Science, and inspire them to work to solve them
• Give them ownership over their own learning
• Help them realize that struggling is an important part of learning, and inspire them to persevere
• Examine the data around an existing feature, join user interviews, and then develop a plan for improving it
• Examine collected feedback around a specific feature request, talk to users who gave that feedback, and think about how that fits in with the overall product, then create a spec to address it
• Partner with designers and engineers to design solutions
• Work with your fellow product managers to prioritize the roadmap
• Work with the teams such as sales, marketing, and support  to understand how are products are sold and implemented
• Assess the solutions you have shipped to identify areas to continue to evolve them to better help users accomplish their goals
• Have an impact on millions of students and arm them for success in school and in life
• Lead the discovery and delivery of initiatives to bring Freckle users new capabilities and bring Freckle to new users within the Renaissance Ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and executing product tests and experiments
• Project management and organizational skills
• Educational background or experience (in the classroom or in edtech)
• Technical, design, or marketing background

Benefits

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs