Senior Product Manager
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Come join Knewton and change the face of education!
We seek a high functioning product superstar to join the Product team at Knewton. You will prioritize and drive key initiatives supporting our institutional product. This is a vitally important role responsible for a critical component of Knewton’s growth strategy.
You will take a metrics driven approach to identify objectives and drive key results while collaborating with Knewton’s senior management, engineering, product, content publishing and data science teams. This lynchpin role requires consideration for long-term product quality, customer and end user satisfaction. The position calls for a detail oriented individual with a strong drive to deliver innovate solutions and processes that result in improved learning outcomes for students.
Responsibilities- Be a subject matter expert on goals, challenges, wants and needs of Knewton users
- Identify product areas that need further development to achieve company’s business objectives
- Define, monitor and improve metrics that aligned with business objectives
- Define and develop product vision, roadmap and requirements
- Create hypotheses, proof of concepts (wireframes), gather user feedback and analyze implementation feasibility with engineering
- Manage sprints, delivery timelines and cost benefit analysis
- 3+ years in product management role or 5+ technical integrations/pre-sales or consulting roles
- Strong track record of analyzing user needs and formulating clear and concise technical requirements for engineering and/or data science teams
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain lasting cross-functional working relationships with diverse stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to apply business thinking in steering feature sets for technically sophisticated products and tools, including ability to create and track financial and business metrics and ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis
- Superb skills in taking complex, uncertainty-laden problems and distilling them into elegant and straightforward solutions, as well as articulating the distillation process to diverse stakeholders
- A passion for or appreciation of practical use of technology in education or more generally practical use of technology in improving people's’ lives
- Up to date and thorough understanding of technology landscape
- Preferred - Startup experience
- Preferred - Computer science or software engineering background
- Competitive salary, great benefits, and equity
- Flexible hours, no vacation policy, and paid maternity/paternity leave
- High-quality equipment (Mac or PC)
- Frequent guest speakers and tech/edtech Meetups hosted at Knewton HQ
- Social groups and sports teams
- Catered lunch everyday in the office, all-day snacks, and a full bar
- Free monthly MetroCards/PATH cards
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