Zearn is hiring a
Senior Product Manager

Summary

The Senior Product Manager role at Zearn is to partner with product leaders, engineers, designers, and educators to solve complex user problems and translate solutions into delightful experiences for educators. The role involves powering innovation through product discovery, leveraging data and user feedback, managing the end-to-end product development process, developing deep cross-functional relationships, and demonstrating skills in leading people, communication, collaborative problem solving, strategic thinking, and project management.

Requirements

8+ years of work experience, with 3+ years in Product Management; Education experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Powering innovation through product discovery
• Lead a team through research, ideation, rapid prototyping, and user-centric iteration to deliver impactful solutions and mitigate go-to-market risks
• Leverage data, user feedback, and market research to continually assess the impact of the product roadmap, identify areas of opportunity, prioritize which problems to solve, and quickly iterate to find the most efficient solutions to solve them
• Given a problem, generate ideas for creative approaches to meet user needs
• Create low fidelity sketches to illustrate your product vision, facilitate early collaboration, and test your thinking
• Partner with design to develop wireframes and interactive prototypes to illustrate new product concepts, gather team and stakeholder input, and validate ideas with users
• Partner with engineering to refine approach, understand technical tradeoffs, and address risks to ensure the product is viable to build
• Anticipate and mitigate potential go-to-market risks throughout the solutioning process
• Manage the end-to-end product development process for multiple projects in parallel
• Ensure the team is consistently focused on the highest priority work for Zearn, and understand how that work contributes to broader Zearn initiatives and mission
• Translate user needs into detailed product requirements, specifications, and timelines
• Partner with design to develop wires into intuitive, accessible, brand-aligned products
• Work to quickly clear design and development roadblocks as they arise, thoroughly addressing every edge case of the user experience
• Ensure features are delivered on time and function as desired, elevating particularly complex or risky changes to other areas of the product
• Ensure product launches are followed by quick, data-driven iteration cycles
• Develop deep cross functional relationships to understand internal dependencies, anticipate and clear execution risks, and prepare teams for launch

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, 401K matching, parental leave, and a flexible PTO policy