Product Lead

Stellic

Product Lead for Stellic managing the Explore product to enhance the transfer student experience. Responsible for roadmap, partner engagement, and engineering collaboration.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeSan Mateo • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management with a focus on building and scaling innovative solutions in the education sector. Possesses strong communication skills and an ownership mindset, effectively collaborating with partners and engineering teams to drive product success.

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Product Management Experience0→1 Product DevelopmentCustomer EngagementTechnical Architecture UnderstandingClear Communication

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Soft Skills

Comfort With AmbiguityStrong Partner InstinctsOwnership Mindset

Industry Keywords

Transfer ExperienceRoadmap DevelopmentDiscovery ProcessAdmissions WorkflowsUniversity Partnerships

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Explore product, end to end: Explore is Stellic's transfer experience product — covering transfer pathways, rules management, articulation, prospective student profiles, and admissions workflows.
The roadmap from the ground up: There's no inherited backlog to manage here. You'll do the discovery, identify the highest-leverage problems, and build a roadmap that earns trust with both university partners and internal leadership.
Partner-driven discovery: You'll be in the room — on calls, on-site when needed — learning how transfer processes actually work at different institutions and turning that into product decisions that scale.
Engineering partnership: You'll work daily with our engineering teams in the US and Pakistan, thinking through architecture, trade-offs, and sequencing together from the earliest stages of the product.
Pattern recognition across institutions: Transfer rules and requirements vary enormously across universities. You'll find the common threads and design solutions that work across many schools without building custom one-offs.
The long game: Even in a greenfield product, every decision you make shapes what's possible later.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of PM experience with demonstrable growth in scope and ownership over time
True 0→1 experience — you've defined a product problem from nothing, built conviction around a solution, and shipped something real
Comfort with ambiguity — you don't need a clear spec to get started; you know how to structure discovery, form hypotheses, and make directional calls with incomplete information
Strong partner instincts — you're at home in customer conversations, you ask better questions than most, and you translate what you hear into product decisions rather than feature lists
Technical depth without needing to write code — comfortable in architecture discussions and able to think through how decisions made today constrain or enable what's possible tomorrow
An ownership mindset — on an early-stage product, everything is your problem; you don't wait to be asked
Clear, engaging communication — with university partners, engineers, and leadership; you can make a fuzzy problem feel structured and a hard trade-off feel obvious.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Exceptional benefits, including health insurance with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents.
401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats in incredible locations.