Summary: The Product Manager is a subject matter expert skilled at working cross-functionally who provides overall product execution and delivery related to Stride strategy. They lean on their working knowledge and ability to analyze and understand customer needs to help shape the team's roadmap, roll out developed tools, identify innovation opportunities, and measure success. The Product Manager is skilled at working with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing backlogs appropriately.
Essential Functions : Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Work with product owners, architects, UX designers, researchers, and development teams to ensure the business, quality, and feature goals are met for each release;
Proactively manage and prioritize the product, release, and sprint backlogs according to business value, complexity, and expectations;
Utilize working knowledge of product management to interact with developers, communicate needs, and drive feature execution;
Ensure relevant innovation for our customers through the creation, collaboration, and execution of high-quality business requirements;
Document and understand users and their needs, and make sure products meet those needs; informed by hands-on user testing and apply the results;
Define and document product requirements, user stories, functional specifications, and business logic as needed;
Implement and analyze metrics and data to assess success and identify trends;
Provide relevant product documentation, including user guides, release notes, go-to-market materials, and support documentation;
Work with product owner and project manager to develop roll-out implementation plans of new features and products to multiple schools and business lines;
Maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories, features, and defects;
Provide business leadership for the scrum team by understanding and executing product goals and vision;
Ensure the completeness and accuracy of product backlog items for the scrum team by creating clear and thoughtful documentation;
Collaborate with the scrum team to prioritize, plan, and release working product increments by being an active participant in all scrum ceremonies;
Respect and empower the scrum team's ability to create its plan of action each sprint while protecting the team;
Inspire and motivate the engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Required Qualifications :
Five (5) years of related product management experience, especially in accessibility, assistive technology, online learning, and digital education OR
Equivalent combination of education and experience
Experience leading technology-based product management initiatives
Passionate and skilled in gathering and interpreting user perspectives so that requirements and design reflect real needs. Experience working with users with a range of functional needs
Experience collaborating with internal and external technology partners as well as non-technical stakeholders
Excellent communication, negotiation, leadership, influence-management, and problem-solving skills.
Previous success working with multiple concurrent Agile software development teams (especially Scrum and/or Kanban)
Experience with Agile development tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Aha, etc.
Experience with online collaboration tools such as O365, Google Docs, Miro, Trello, StoriesOnBoard, etc.
Ability to pass a required background check Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
Ability to travel 5% of the time
Ability to pass a required background check
Desired Qualifications :
Bachelor's degree in a related field
Experience in education technology organization
Management experience
Work Environment : The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Compensation & Benefits:Stride, Inc. considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee's salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position's level and expected contribution, and the employee's benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
We anticipate the salary range to be $66,379.50 to $170,037.60. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual's compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions.Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Job Type
Regular
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
