Senior Product Manager, Student Experience

Great Purpose. Great People. Great Opportunities.

At Imagine Learning we empower potential by creating educational solutions that inspire boundless possibilities for every student, every day. We are passionate about innovating together to support educators in creating those special moments when students experience the joy of learning at its best.

We also empower our team through a strong culture focused on career growth and development, flexible work from home arrangements, interesting and meaningful work, and a supportive and connected team. As a remote-friendly company, hybrid and remote team members work from states across the U.S. and internationally. The majority of our US employees enjoy the opportunity to work from home, or in a hybrid capacity in our offices in Tempe, AZ (headquarters), Austin, TX, Petaluma, CA, Rock Rapids, IA, Grand Rapids, MI, or Bloomington, MN.

Imagine Your Impact.

The Senior Product Manager, Student Experience facilitates and participates in problem and solution discovery, product design, implementation, and go-to-market for software solutions. This position works within the Product, Engineering & Design teams to help discover and define customer and user needs, jobs to be done, desired outcomes, and the priority of them as the team gathers more data and learns from that data.

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Position Information: This is a regular, full-time position, reporting to Group Product Manager.

Compensation: Base pay is anticipated to be between $108,688.00 and $134,000.00 per year. Eligible employees may also receive incentive/commission/annual bonus pay based on individual and/or company performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as, but not limited to, individual skills, experience, training, education/certifications, geographic location, internal equity, and local market conditions.

Location: In this US-based position your location will be remote.

Travel: You can also expect up to approximately 10% travel, so be sure you have a valid driver’s license and automobile insurance and a clean driving record for at least the preceding 39 months.

Benefits: Imagine Learning provides a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including:

• Multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums
• 401k plan with a company match
• 16 paid holidays, which include 2 floating holidays and a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day
• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive maternity and fertility/family building benefits
• Paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family
• Access to on-demand mental health resources
• Life and short and long-term disability insurance
• Pre-tax savings plans
• Paid volunteer time off
• A wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement
• Work from home opportunities that foster work/life balance

Envision Your Experience.

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Inform the strategy for the experience components of our supplemental/intervention products.
• Use data to drive identification and prioritization of product initiatives including market research, user research, competitor analysis, product analytics, and client/field feedback.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the K-12 education market landscape.
• Develop outcomes-based roadmaps that deliver customer and business value over a defined period of time.
• Collaborate to develop an engaging experience for our students with enhanced motivation features, personalization, language supports, and robust student tools.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify solutions that can be leveraged by products throughout our portfolio.
• Translate solutions into detailed requirements and acceptance criteria for the engineering teams.
• Prioritize product enhancements and maintenance activities within the product backlog.
• Triage urgent issues in collaboration with support and development teams.
• Provide training and documentation on product updates to internal teams.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that functional intent is achieved.
• Assure product quality before the product gets in the hands of the customer.
• Other duties as required.

Share Your Expertise.

Experience, education, and qualifications essential for success in this role, include:

• Bachelor’s degree in sales, marketing, business, or similar field and 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager; or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of childhood education is required.
• Experience working in the edtech market on student experience is a plus.
• Experience building student interfaces and student motivation features.
• A high degree of technical fluency and comfort.
• Effective listening, diplomacy and tact, and collaboration skills.
• Excellent organizational, time and project management skills; ability to effectively multi-task while meeting demanding deadlines.
• Strategic ability; anticipate future opportunities and consequences, demonstrated innovative approach to work.
• Ability to work independently but also operate efficiently and effectively within a collaborative team environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed, up to 10%.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB+).

Diversity and inclusivity strengthen our Imagine Learning team, enrich our lives, and help us design equitable educational experiences where learners see themselves and can also learn about people, cultures, experiences, and perspectives different from their own. We strive to hire, develop, and retain talented people who represent the diversity of the districts we serve. By developing initiatives that focus on the needs, expectations, and lives of our people, we’ve created an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential.

Imagine Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, transgender status (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned), sexual orientation, marital status, religion (including religion dress and grooming practices), age 40 and over, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information (including results of genetic testing and characteristics), veteran and/or military status, or service in the military, and any other basis or status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

To all recruitment agencies: Imagine Learning does not accept agency resumes. Please do not submit candidates for consideration via our online application system, to Imagine Learning employees, or to any other organization location. Imagine Learning is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.