Ignite Reading

Product Manager

• Develop and articulate a comprehensive product strategy aligned with the company’s mission and goals, covering the SaaS business platform and student outcomes
• Identify optimization opportunities and user needs using AI-powered research tools
• Create and maintain a dynamic product roadmap reflecting market trends, user needs, and business priorities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align products with company objectives
• Lead and inspire the product management and UX design organization
• Foster innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the product team
• Model and support AI tool adoption and contribute use cases to bi-weekly AI learning sessions
• Provide mentorship and professional development to team members
• Oversee end-to-end product development from ideation through launch
• Use AI-powered tools for rapid prototyping before engineering handoff
• Partner with engineering and stakeholders to prioritize and execute product initiatives
• Analyze performance data and conduct market research and competitor analysis
• Drive seamless user experiences that improve student engagement and learning outcomes
• Collaborate with UX designers to align design principles with user and business needs
• Gather feedback from educators, administrators, and technology partners
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships

Director of Product

Data Analyst

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three: a staff data scientist and two analysts, fostering a collaborative, supportive, and growth-focused environment.
• Provide technical guidance and hands-on support on high-stakes analytics and data science projects, ensuring the team has the tools, context, and skills needed to do their best work.
• Actively invest in the team’s AI fluency and utilization, evaluating emerging AI tools and techniques and leveraging Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and related tools to accelerate analytical workflows and extend team capacity.
• Own and advance program analytics in support of Ignite Reading’s Academics team, providing rigorous measurement of curriculum performance and student success, including assessment against third-party benchmarks such as DIBELS, iReady, and STAR, and conducting analyses to inform what types of interventions to develop and to determine how effective they are.
• Own and advance product analytics across Ignite Reading’s platform, measuring feature adoption, student engagement, and usage patterns to inform product strategy and prioritization.
• Help drive the development of the company’s experimentation platform, establishing best practices for experimental design, analysis, and interpretation.
• Roll up your sleeves alongside the team on selected analytics projects: responding to high-priority ad hoc requests, designing prototypes to accelerate builds, and personally owning discrete analyses end to end.
• Own sprint management, project execution, and delivery for the Product & Program Analytics team, conducting planning sessions and leading retrospectives to continuously improve team processes.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Product and Academics stakeholders, translating business and academic questions into analytical initiatives and communicating findings clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate on the team’s strategic roadmap with the VP of Data & Analytics, aligning project priorities with organizational goals and tracking progress against timelines.

Director of Product

Senior Manager, Product & Program Analytics