Senior Product Manager, Literacy

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Job Details

Job LocationRemote - Your City & State, PARemote TypeFully RemotePosition TypeFull TimeEducation Level4 Year DegreeSalary Range$95,000.00 - $110,000.00 Salary/yearTravel PercentageMinimalJob ShiftAnyJob CategoryProduct - LiteracyDescriptionSenior Product Manager, LiteracyWhat We Seek

We are looking for a strong Product Manager to envision and drive platform updates and enhancements for our K-12 literacy programs. If you are passionate about the importance of ELA education and love working on and delivering cutting-edge EdTech products, this position is for you.

The Product Manager, Literacy (Grades 6-12) reports to the Vice President of Product Management and collaborates with the Editorial, Instructional Design, and Engineering teams to bring the research, content and user experience to life.

What Your Day Will Look Like

Lead the product vision process and serve as the voice of the customer to create engaging digital curriculum experiences for the K-12 ELA market, especially related to reading, writing, and speaking

Identify and implement AI features to improve student learning and teacher effectiveness

Assist in the development of well-groomed and prioritized feature backlogs aligned to department roadmaps and strategy

Lead product ideation and discovery sessions; leverage both qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions

Create and research prototypes with customers to define and refine upcoming features

Execute continuous discovery techniques (interviews, journey maps, opportunity trees) throughout the product development lifecycle

Oversee end-to-end feature delivery including user stories, requirements, design mockups or prototypes, test cases for UAT, and release communication to internal teams; ensure timely handoffs and clear communication between teams

Analyze data on product and feature usage to identify new opportunities and monitor satisfaction and efficacy

Manage product development lifecycle for several products, ensuring a balance between discovery, design, and delivery / go-to-market phases

Identify and work with senior staff to remove barriers causing inefficiency or stifling innovation in product development

Demonstrate strong budget adherence and influence a culture of budget adherence cross-functionally; assist creating and tracking project-level budgets.

Provide cross-functional leadership with regard to operational and delivery best practices

Cultivate and maintain strong market knowledge including trends, competition, and opportunities

Build and nurture strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met and concerns addressed

Regularly hold feedback and information sharing sessions with key stakeholder groups inside and outside the department and the company

Deliver customer-centric product requirements to Engineering teams

Create sound, strategic, data-driven business cases to support roadmap recommendations

What Should Be In Your Bookbag

7+ years of digital product development experience

3+ years as a product manager in the EdTech field on grade 6-12 digital literacy products

Proven experience bringing AI-powered features for K-12 students to market

BA, BS in Business, Education, English, UX/CX, or Communications

Strategic, data-driven critical thinker

A passion for creating intuitive, user-centered developmentally appropriate experiences

Disposition to relentlessly solve problems rather than be stopped by them

Expert communicator with ability to write and present to executive teams

A thirst for educational innovation (especially in ELA) while being up-to-date with the latest trends, policies, and best practices in ELA education and product management

Desire and ability to foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, collaboration, flexibility

Available to work for a US-based company with a typical work day of 9-5pm ET, Monday-Friday

Ability to travel 10% of time

What Gives Us Purpose

Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We're driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you'll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.

What We Provide

Holistic Wellbeing

An inclusive range of Health Insurance options, including a premium-free plan

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance at no cost to you

Access to Headspace at Work with no added cost, empowering you to enhance your mental health

Fostering Joy

Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy

Your Time, Your Way - paid time off that you can use as you see fit to recharge and nurture your personal life

Empowering Parenthood

Paid Parental Leave

Reduced working hours on full pay for soon-to-be and new parents

Free access to CL products for employees and their children

A Place for Connection

Quarterly Wellness Incentives

Monthly employee activities + recognition program

9 Employee Resource Groups

What We Believe

We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.

If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.WE RESPECT AND CELEBRATE THE UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES, CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSPECTIVES THAT MAKE EACH PERSON WHO THEY ARE. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT BRINGING DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS TOGETHER ALLOWS US TO COLLECTIVELY AND MORE EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THE ISSUES THAT FACE OUR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. CARNEGIE LEARNING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.