Constructive Dialogue Institute

Product Manager

• Serve as the Executive Director’s technical thought partner, shaping how and what we build in alignment with our overall product strategy.
• Stay current on trends and emerging technologies in EdTech, AI, and related fields to inform product strategy and innovation.
• Lead our technical strategy to ensure scalability, stability, security, accessibility, and responsible AI integration across all products.
• Translate product priorities into a clear, actionable technical roadmap.
• Set and track product OKRs and KPIs
• Product Health & Scalability Own system monitoring, data pipeline integrity, and risk tracking to safeguard product performance and stability.
• Prototype, validate, and deliver AI-powered features and new AI-driven products that advance CDI’s mission.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and accessibility standards.
• Team & Vendor Management Manage a Product Specialist, fostering professional growth and high performance.
• Lead relationships with all tech vendors — including development agency, platform hosting providers, and accessibility/security partners.
• Manage the technical product budget, negotiate vendor contracts, and ensure high performance from all technical partners.
• Maintain effective agile rituals for a hybrid internal/agency model, in partnership with the Product Specialist.
• Cross-Functional Execution Collaborate with Education and Implementation teams to ensure CDI’s products support effective content delivery and meet partner and user needs.
• Work with Partnerships (Sales) to fulfill technical contract requirements, including integrations and security/privacy documentation.
• Partner with Operations on privacy, security, and AI guardrails.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment on product development, launches, and feedback loops.

Director of Product

• CDI seeks a Product Lead to drive vision, roadmap, and execution of our e-learning platform.
• Own the technical vision, strategy, and execution; develop product roadmap; ensure scalability, security, and accessibility.
• While initial focus will be Perspectives, you’ll also drive technical innovation across CDI’s full suite of offerings, using emerging technologies (including AI) to expand impact, efficiency, and scale.
• You’ll serve as a player-coach: managing one Product Specialist, while partnering closely with an external development agency to deliver high-quality releases on time and on budget.
• Responsibilities: Executive Director’s technical thought partner; stay current on EdTech/AI trends; lead technical strategy for scalability, security, accessibility, responsible AI; translate product priorities into a clear technical roadmap; set and track OKRs and KPIs; product health & scalability; prototype AI-powered features; ensure privacy, security, and accessibility compliance; cross-functional collaboration with Education, Implementation, Partnerships, and Operations; manage vendor relationships; budgets; agile rituals; etc.