Director of Product Management, Amplify
Data
$140-193k
This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
Job no longer available
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$140-193k
This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics) or equivalent experience
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with 10+ years Analyst and/or Product Management experience
- Strong technical skills, including experience with data analysis tools and technologies such as dbt, Snowflake, SQL, R, and/or Python
- Experience with business intelligence, data visualization, and reporting tools such as Tableau and Looker
- People management and leadership skills with experience of 5+ years managing teams and 3+ years managing leaders
- Proven ability to lead and manage multiple teams, including developing multi-year strategy and facilitating supportive goal-setting processes (e.g. quarterly OKRs)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Experience working in the education technology field
- Experience working with data products
What the job involves
- This is a key leadership role responsible for the development and support of product leaders within the department to ensure the group as a whole serves as a successful partner to stakeholders across product lines and business units to solve analytical problems
- This individual will develop, implement, and facilitate product strategy, roadmap development, and effective processes for engaging with stakeholders
- Leadership: Develop product leaders that effectively support teams of analysts, data scientists, and data engineers; providing mentorship, support, and direction as needed
- Strategy: Develop and implement a data product strategy across product and business units in collaboration with the Vice President of Data Engineering
- People management: Provide leadership, career development, coaching, and mentoring for product leaders within the department
- Delivery: Take responsibility for successful delivery by facilitating quarterly goal setting and ensuring leaders are effectively managing their teams and deliverables; leveraging best practices in estimation, requirements analysis, balancing trade-offs, and executing against commitments
- Communication: Team up with Amplify’s leaders across product and business units to ensure the data department develops data models and tools that solve the most critical analytics challenges
- Collaborate: Collaborate with groups across the Engineering organization, e.g. Business Systems, to tackle strategic challenges together
- Coordinate: Develop working relationships with business leaders across the organization to help Data teams align work to Company goals
- Develop and facilitate processes for managing data and analytics requests across product and business units that prioritize strategically and transparently to all stakeholders
- Advance the adoption of agile product development practices across the department
- Co-facilitate the development of quarterly OKR across all data teams
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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