Macmillan

Product Manager, Course – High School

Macmillan

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $95,000 - $115,000 per year

About the role

  • Lead course ideation, validation, and scoping, ensuring alignment with teacher pedagogy and student engagement patterns.
  • Evaluate priorities and alignment to OKRs based on qualitative and quantitative data, making recommendations based on those insights and their importance to project partners to help drive the discipline course vision and roadmap.
  • Define and evolve the course strategy for a portfolio of disciplines, grounded in market, learner, and teacher needs.
  • Catalogue and synthesize feedback from users and internal customer liaisons to manage a well-organized and well-informed backlog.
  • Evangelize the product backlog such that priorities show clear alignment to business objectives.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally with other product managers, program managers, learning resource group, and UX to complete multi-team initiatives and establish priority.
  • Regularly analyze the competitive marketplace to best understand customer solutions, course trends, and opportunities to provide advice accordingly.
  • Use system data, feedback from customers and other data points to analyze the impact the solution has for users.
  • Monitor, run data analysis, and report on key performance indicators for content assets.
  • Translate validated ideas into course and content requirements, collaborating with UX, learning science, and editorial teams to ensure high-quality experiences.
  • Obtain early feedback on solutions and understand efforts and trade-offs.
  • Define product features and communicate requirements to Product Designers, LRG and development teams via clearly-written requirements using concise verbal communication.
  • Track and drive cross-functional product rollout outside of the product development team to facilitate successful product content use.
  • Assess, measure, and present the impact of their team’s work directly to stakeholders, quantifying the value of their progress, and evaluating or recommending possible courses of action.
  • Establish and maintain internal partner relationships aligned with evaluating viability and supporting implementation through launch efforts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 3+ years’ experience designing and building new products and enhancing existing products, preferably in the K-12 ed tech space.
  • 2+ years’ product management or business analyst experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to exert influence and deliver on capabilities without having direct control over all participating resources.
  • Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast-paced environment.
  • Knowledgeable across many functional areas: product management, UX, editorial, sales, customer support, finance, and marketing.
  • Problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
  • Excellent ability to communicate complex information orally and in writing to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience building trust and collaboration through excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Strong technical abilities.
  • Flexible and willing to work as a team member doing whatever it takes to release an exceptional product.
  • Exceptional customer relationship skills.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.
Benefits
  • Competitive pay and bonus plan
  • Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity
  • Generous paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays
  • Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
  • 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
  • And much more!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
product managementdata analysiscourse designcontent requirementskey performance indicatorsmarket analysisuser feedback synthesisproject prioritizationcross-functional coordinationproduct rollout
Soft skills
communicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsanalytical skillsinterpersonal skillsinfluencecollaborationentrepreneurial driveflexibilitycustomer relationship management
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree