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Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)

Product Manager

2 Months ago • 4 Years + • Education • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Product Manager at Prodigy Education, you'll collaborate with developers, designers, and data scientists to enhance the educational infrastructure. Key responsibilities include managing the question interface and the system driving teacher reporting and insights. You'll curate the product backlog, deeply understand customer needs, track metrics, scope projects, and iterate on features. Experience with educational assessment, personalized learning, or transforming legacy products is valuable. The role involves close collaboration with various teams, communicating progress, and championing team accomplishments. The goal is to improve the student learning experience and provide valuable insights to educators.

Must have:

4+ years Product Management experience in SaaS
Passion for education
Strong communication skills
User research & metrics expertise
Data-driven decision making
Collaboration with engineering & design teams

Good to have:

Experience with educational assessment types
Building personalized learning experiences
Experience with AI-enhanced educational experiences

Prodigy Education, a global leader in game-based learning, is on a mission to make every student in the world love learning. We believe learning should be as fun as playing a video game. This is central to our educational philosophy, because when you love what you do, you do it better. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.

With Prodigy, kids practice standards-aligned skills in Math and English as they play our fun, adaptive learning games. All with teacher and parent tools to support their learning in class and at home.

This role supports teams that are the educational infrastructure at Prodigy. Key surface areas for the PM in this role will be our Question Interface as well as our educational infrastructure that drives reporting and insights for teachers. If you have experience with assessment types in education or you are familiar with how to build out personalized educational experiences we want to hear from you. Or if you relish the opportunity to take a complex legacy product an produce something lean, simple and scalable we also want to hear from you! Bonus points if you have experience in developing AI enhanced experiences in education.

Your Impact

Collaborate in a cross-functional team with developers, designers, and data scientists, and create a team culture with a vision aligned with our strategy
Curate the product backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority task, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks
Develop a deep understanding of our customers’ needs
Track and analyze metrics at every part of the student and teacher 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
Iterate upon successful features to ensure teachers always receive value from our product and students have what they need to be successful
The opportunity to enhance the key educational experience for students - our question interface!
The ability to provide insights to educators to make our experience more effective.
Consistently communicate what your team is working on and releasing to partner teams
Champion the accomplishments of your team to the rest of the company, ensuring that proper recognition is given when appropriate

About You

4+ years of experience in a Product Management role at a SaaS company
A passion for education
Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale and story for product decisions
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
The ability to scope projects so that every part of them plays a key role in your overall objective
Previous experience collaborating closely with engineers, developers, UX designers, and other team members

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.

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Prodigy Education

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Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating millions worldwide via fun, secure and accessible curriculum-aligned gameplay experiences. At Prodigy Education, we believe maximizing student motivation helps develop a lifetime love of learning. Prodigy’s approach to fun, game-based learning means kids no longer have to choose between homework and playtime.

You’ll be working on products used and loved by millions of students, teachers and parents worldwide. It’s why so many of our team members are proud to be Prodigy.

Not only are our games fun and engaging, they’re also designed to support positive educational outcomes. Helping kids have fun while they learn — what could be more rewarding than that?

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