Product Manager, Mobile
What do we do?
Teachers Pay Teachers (or TpT, as we call it) is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Our community brings immediate access to a world of expertise and offers educators more time to focus on students and teaching.
The New York Times called the phenomenon we lead “A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win”.
Why do we do it?
Our dream is to make the expertise and wisdom of all the teachers in the world available to anyone, anywhere, at any time. We believe that we can help create real good in the world by empowering the educators to teach their best.
Who are we looking for?
We modeled our company culture on the virtues of our community of teachers and we are assembling one of the most talented teams in New York. We think this article in EdSurge about sums it up.
We’re building a team of deeply good people doing great things. We listen first. We love our work. And we are all teachers and learners in whatever we do. We believe that productivity is never an accident. It’s the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, passionate teamwork, and focused effort. We want every day to be fun and to matter.
Role:
As a Product Manager you are expected to excel in a fun and fast paced, ever-changing environment. You will focus on the needs of our community and dive deep into user problems. You will take pride in delighting our users by helping the team design and build wonderful user experiences. You will not be limited by the present and will constantly look ahead to the future.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute a mobile strategy across platforms for TpT
- Define mobile native experience product vision and communicate that vision internally and externally.
- Develop mobile roadmap by identifying gaps in our product and new market opportunities
- Drive growth of mobile products through product and marketing experimentation
- Own features and user experience improvements that increase customer engagement.
- Manage backlog and feature roadmap for iOS and Android apps
- Define KPIs for app success and motivate the team to achieve those KPIs.
- Work collaboratively with other PMs, designers and engineering leaders to make system wide impact.
- Balance a strong product sense with deep understanding of our community
- Be a passionate voice for the TpT user within the mobile team and the TpT organization.
Qualifications:
- Believe in our mission to connect and empower teachers.
- 5+ years of product management with a focus on native mobile applications.
- Deep interest in creative and impactful mobile UX design.
- Proven track record of using qualitative and quantitative data to drive decision-making.
- Collaborative with exceptional communication skills.
- Analytical and eager to learn with the ability to break complex problems down to actionable tasks.
- Open to change, being able to chart a course and iterate as the organization and technology evolves and changes.
- Comfortable in detailed conversations with developers and communicate complex technical issues to a wide range of audiences.
- Demonstrate humility, curiosity, versatility, and creativity
Extra credit:
- E-commerce/Marketplace experience
- Education or teaching experience
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field