Senior Product Manager - Learning

Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating more than 20 million students a year to practice standards-aligned math and English. More than 800,000 teachers use Prodigy as a free instructional tool. Fun, motivating, and research-based, Prodigy is the EdTech platform students actually ask to use. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.

As a Product Manager for the Learning Squad, you will leverage both qualitative and quantitative data to uncover opportunities for creating a more engaging and enjoyable experience for millions of students worldwide, while ensuring alignment with educational and business goals. This role is with our Learning Squad and focuses on our core educational experiences - the question interface, placement test and algorithm. To be a key player in the classroom we need to work alongside our education specialists and educator enablement team to ensure our product meets the needs of learners and teachers. Some of the exciting projects we have planned include a revamp of our question interface and tooling and harnessing the power of AI to improve learning.

Your Impact

• Build and maintain the product roadmap while coordinating with Design, Data, and Development teams to align on current focus areas and dynamically adapt timelines to evolving priorities
• Set the pace for key deliverables, while maintaining curiosity and openness to better solutions or opportunities to drive a larger impact
• Be responsible for key educational features and systems like the question interface, content tooling, administrator tools and the algorithm or learning path.
• Partner with education specialists to develop better content tooling.
• Work with educator enablement to understand district needs and prioritize the right features to drive impact
• Curate the product backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority thing, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks
• Develop a deep understanding of our customers’ needs through customer research, user onboarding, segmentation & feedback loops
• Track and analyze metrics at every part of the user journey so that you can focus in on the highest value opportunities
• Effectively scope projects and experiments so that they are lean but also add enough value to validate your hypotheses
• Communicate effectively and often, keeping stakeholders informed of roadmap priorities, key milestones, and team progress.
• Celebrate and elevate your team’s wins, ensuring their accomplishments are visible across the organization and their work is tied to our company-wide impact.
  
  

About You

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Product Management role
• Experience using user research and metrics to add significant value to a product
• A solid understanding of data driven decision making, including the ability to drive and interpret hypothesis-based testing including A/B testing
• Ability to identify and address the distinct needs of different user types, including adults and students, to enhance their overall experience
• Can clearly describe & communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders as well as business and user value of technical initiatives to several internal & external audiences
• A passion for education
• Previous experience collaborating cross functionally - closely with engineers, developers, UX designers, and other team members
• Previous experience in edtech preferred
• Bonus points of you can pull your own sql queries
  
  

Working at Prodigy

• Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning! At Prodigy Education, your work positively impacts the lives of millions of students and teachers worldwide.
• Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members, so you grow as we do. You’ll also work on award-winning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st-8th.
• We understand that a thriving team is at the core of our success. So, on top of an inspirational mission and rewarding work, our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial, physical, and mental well-being.
• It’s not just about the work though; it's about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: "Prodigy’s secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving.” Check it out here.
  
  

Prodigy Math is used by almost one million teachers a year, and was named the most popular supplemental education platform in classrooms in the United States! Our products have also won numerous consumer awards, including the Mom’s Choice Award, Parent and Teacher Choice Awards, and National Parenting Product Award.

Come as you are. We believe the power of our collective potential will transform education. We are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people from all underrepresented groups, including (but not limited to) people of any gender, age, or religion, members of the LGBTQIA2+ community, BIPOC and other underrepresented races and nationalities, people with disabilities, veterans, and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of Prodigy Education. If you feel like you don’t have all the qualifications for this position and are willing to use your initiative to learn the rest, we’d still love for you to apply!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Prodigy Education will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation, please notify us at jobs@prodigygame.com, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating more than 20 million students a year to practice standards-aligned math and English. More than 800,000 teachers use Prodigy as a free instructional tool. Fun, motivating, and research-based, Prodigy is the EdTech platform students actually ask to use.