Principal Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Python
Senior Product Manager
Code.org
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington
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💰 $138,600 - $154,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead zero→one product development from discovery through launch
- Define product strategy, goals, and success measures focused on real classroom impact
- Conduct user research interviews with educators and contextual inquiry with students; synthesize insights into clear product decisions
- Move incrementally and quickly invalidate riskiest assumptions and run innovation risk
- Write clear opportunity statements, design schematics, and async updates to drive alignment across a distributed team
- Work closely every day with the engineering, creative, and educational teams to transform initial concepts into functional software
- Balance qualitative feedback and quantitative signals when making trade‑offs; decide when to persevere, pivot, or stop
- Maintain a high bar for product quality and detail while navigating technical constraints
- Champion Code.org’s mission—baking equity, accessibility, and classroom practicality into product decisions
- Develop calm, deliberate execution
- Communicate and collaborate effectively across time zones in a remote‑first culture
- Share outcomes and findings openly to inform portfolio‑level decisions
Requirements
- 5-8 years of product management experience or equivalent track record shipping zero→one product
- Established track record of turning abstract concepts into tangible solutions and adapting based on user input
- Outstanding written communication; thrives in remote, asynchronous teamwork
- Robust product awareness and user understanding, particularly for educators and scholars; direct user research involvement
- Comfortable making decisions without consensus; ambitious “manager‑of‑one” approach and ownership
- Effective cross‑functional partner to design and engineering; technical fluency (CS background or coding experience a plus)
- Dedicated to producing impactful results and employing data to measure success
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
- Work within the United States
- Pass a pre-employment background check
- Be willing to travel a minimum of two times per year for team events
