Hello, World! Codecademy has helped tens of millions of learners upgrade their careers, build meaningful projects and gain confidence in their skills with engaging, accessible, and flexible education on programming and data skills. We provide hands-on interactive lessons ranging from Python to R to JavaScript and everything in between. Our learners have gone on to start companies, new jobs, and new lives thanks to what they’ve learned with Codecademy, and we’re thrilled to take that impact to the next level.

Codecademy was started in 2011 by two college students in a dorm room at Columbia that were frustrated by the huge gap between education and employment. Almost a decade later, we are a growing, diverse team of 100+ headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $40m in venture capital funding from top investors including Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Y Combinator, and more.

As the Director of Product Management leading the Consumer product team, you will own the customer experience for our free and paid learners. You will be accountable for continuously improving the user journey starting from acquisition through activation and conversion from free to paid through to retention. You and the team will be responsible for defining and delivering experiences that create millions of lifelong technology learners in partnership with design, engineering, and other functions. Ultimately your success will be measured by your customers’ satisfaction.

If you want to build a business that impacts tens of millions of people and helps them lead better lives, join us!

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Define and execute the consumer products strategy in a manner that is consistent with our company mission and product principles
• Lead by example using quantitative and qualitative data to drive decision making
• Maintain and share with stakeholders detailed a competitive analysis 
• Set, track and achieve the product goals for our consumer offers
• Lead the consumer product team to identify and prioritize problems to be solved, then validate them with data, engineering, and design teams
• Establish and champion a product roadmap that inspires the entire company to deliver the strategy
• Lead cross functional teams to identify and specify solutions to learner problems that are enriching, usable, feasible and that benefit our business
• Supervise product managers as they ideate and create requirements with acceptance criteria
• Determine and deliver returns on investments from product development initiatives
• Ensure company-wide transparency into product discovery and delivery activities
• Coach and mentor your team to create high performing product managers in partnership with our people department

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Reputation as a customer obsessed product owner
• A “Founder” mentality - relentless, resourceful, proactive, and results-oriented
• Minimum of 8 years as a product owner managing the end to end product lifecycle
• Minimum of 3 years as manager of people
• Demonstrated data literacy skills
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Experience developing product strategies and business cases that were funded
• Strong track record of developing and shipping high quality products for web, mobile, and tablets
• Expertise in agile development software methodologies
• Strong track record of establishing trusted relationships

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT

• Proven track record improving direct to consumer SaaS acquisition, conversion, and retention 
• Familiarity with popular front and back end technologies
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle processes 
• Experience with education technology 
• A portfolio that showcases the accomplishments described in your resume

At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of learners with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.