Product Manager

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What is Knewton?

At Knewton, we believe each student is unique and that their knowledge is not defined by their last answer. Sometimes what a student needs at any moment may not be the next lesson in their textbook. Teachers, schools and education companies use Knewton solutions to adapt to each student’s unique needs with tailored recommendations. Join us to help students have a more positive educational experience.

What have we accomplished since opening our doors in 2008?

Knewton has delivered more than 25 billion personalized recommendations to over 15 million students on every continent (okay, except Antarctica). We’re headquartered in beautiful Union Square NYC with offices in London and Tokyo. We have been recognized as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, one of the 100 Best Places to work by Crain’s New York Business and one of Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data. Investments top $150M from well-known angel investors plus Accel, Bessemer, First Round Capital, Firstmark, Founders Fund, GSV and Atomico.

We seek a high functioning product superstar to join the Product team. You will prioritize and drive key initiatives supporting our institutional products. This is a vitally important role responsible for a critical component of Knewton’s growth strategy.

In this role, you’ll interact with our Sales, Design, Content, Engineering, Marketing and Data Science teams. You’ll develop a whole new vocabulary and a set of skills you never knew existed. 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

Requirements:

  • 2 - 5 years of professional work experience with a minimum of 2 years of product management experience
  • 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, computer science or software engineering background

Perks include:· Competitive salary, equity, and great benefits including a 401k match· Great coworkers with a passion for empowering students and educators· Flexible hours, no vacation policy, and paid maternity/paternity leave· High-quality equipment (default: a new Macbook Pro with a giant monitor)· Social groups and sports teams· Free lunches everyday and free dinners when you work late· Fully stocked kitchen with all-day snacks and a full bar · Free monthly MetroCards/PATH cards Come be part of something amazing.

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100 5th Ave., New York, NY 10011

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