At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

The Senior Product Manager will work closely with the

technology, design and research teams to deliver solutions that support educators directly and indirectly by providing educators and other CA teams with

tools and frameworks to extend the i-Ready platform. They will develop a deep understanding of these educator and platform team needs, communicate

product definition and prioritization to cross-functional teams, work closely with engineering teams to deliver reporting features, and act upon user feedback

to continuously improve the product. The senior product manager—who is a creative, collaborative problem solver—will thrive in our fast-growing and

dedicated environment.

The impact you’ll have:

Manage the organization, prioritization, communication, refinement and delivery of end user facing and internal tooling and capabilities for the

platform

Drive product design end-to-end, working with leadership, product management, design, editorial, subject matter experts, development teams, and go-

to-market teams. This will include researching internal and external user needs, synthesizing needs into a coherent vision and set of user goals, scoping

and designing creative solutions, articulating and prioritizing detailed feature definitions, supporting development processes, and collaborating with

go-to-market teams to deliver features to educators

Translate product vision into an actionable plan for engineering by breaking roadmap features into epics and user stories, defining requirements and

acceptance criteria, and supporting a scrum team as needed through sprint and quarterly planning and refinement ceremonies

Collaborate with product, design, and user research teams to define new user interfaces and product flows to meet user reporting goals, while ensuring

a cohesive product vision

Effectively present product plans, ideas, and designs to technical and non-technical stakeholders for feedback

Collaborate with go-to-market teams to communicate the vision for upcoming features and ensure teams have the product information they need to

drive to a successful launch

Monitor product usage and interact regularly with internal stakeholders and educators to analyze product feedback and build product knowledge

Stay abreast of trends, key issues, competitors, and partner offerings

What we’re looking for:

Minimum of 5+ years product management experience or product owner in an agile development environment; strong preference for experience with

clients in a SaaS environment and working with backend features, capabilities and frameworks

Proven ability to develop product ideas that solve user needs based on input from various sources (e.g., stakeholder feedback, quantitative and

qualitative data analysis) and technology and architecture team inputs

Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate and collaborate across both technical and non-technical stakeholders, synthesize feedback, and drive to

decisions

Excellent analytical skills with turning both quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights

Terrific organizational, problem-solving and time management skills

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced software development environment, proficiency with agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban

Knowledge of EdTech industry and is a plu

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