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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 be working 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 rapidly growing, diverse team of about 200 distributed through North America and headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $87.5m in venture capital funding from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more.

As the Director Product Management, you will be leading a new business unit that is chartered to accelerate the growth of Codecademy’s monthly active users. You will own the strategy, P&L, roadmap, and day-to-day cross-functional operations. Working with product managers, designers, engineers, content creators, marketers, and other functions you will be accountable for continuously improving the user journey from acquisition to activation through to engagement and retention. You and the team will be responsible for defining, delivering, and operating a customer experience that starts people on their journey toward improved economic opportunities through jobs in technology, becoming a trusted resource that people rely on to advance their careers. Ultimately your success will be measured by your customers’ satisfaction.  

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

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Define and execute a growth strategy in a manner that is consistent with our company mission and values
• Manage a P&L to achieve committed top and bottom line results
• Lead by example using quantitative and qualitative data to drive decision making
• Establish and champion a roadmap that inspires the business unit to deliver the strategy
• Collaborate with product marketing to maintain and share with stakeholders a detailed competitive analysis 
• Set, track, and achieve the business unit’s KPIs
• Collaborate with marketing and content creators to develop an at scale audience 
• Lead cross-functional teams to identify and specify solutions to customer problems that are enriching, usable, feasible, and that benefit the business
• Supervise product managers as they ideate and create requirements with acceptance criteria
• Determine and deliver returns from product, marketing, and content investments
• Ensure company-wide transparency into product development and business operations
• 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 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 building a product-led growth engine
• Experience with content and community driven product experiences
• Building SaaS products at growth to late stage tech companies
• Familiarity with popular front and back end technologies
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle processes 
• Experience with education technology 
• A background in Computer Science
• 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.

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