Product Owner, Coursedog
Integrations
$110-130k
+ Equity
Integrated academic operations platform
Open for applications
Integrated academic operations platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$110-130k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To break down barriers to opportunity for students.
Role
Who you are
- Higher Education Integrations Expertise: Direct experience working with one or more Student Information Systems (SIS):
- Ellucian Banner
- Ellucian Colleague
- Ellucian Ethos Integrations
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- Workday Student
- Product Ownership Proficiency: 1–3 years as a Product Owner (or hybrid PO/BA) in an Agile environment, with a proven track record of backlog ownership and delivering software
- Integration Requirements Writing: Experience authoring detailed technical requirements for APIs, database integrations, and system-to-system wiring
- Agile Execution: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (backlog refinement, story writing, acceptance criteria definition, sprint execution)
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to communicate across Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and institutional stakeholders
- Analytical & Problem-Solving: Data-driven mindset with the ability to break down complex workflows and design clear integration solutions
- EdTech Domain Aptitude: Experience with SaaS platforms in higher education is required. Understanding of university operational workflows a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a driven, execution-oriented Product Owner, Integrations to join our growing Product team
- This role offers a unique opportunity to directly impact how universities integrate their core systems, ensuring a seamless data flow across the higher education ecosystem
- As a Product Owner, Integrations, you will report to the Director of Integrations and serve as a critical link between strategy and execution
- You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand initiative goals and strategic product priorities, then translate those into detailed integration requirements
- You’ll partner with the Integrations Engineering team to design and build solutions and enable Customer Success to deploy them effectively at institutions
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand initiative goals and strategic product priorities
- Translate high-level integration initiatives into detailed user stories and wiring requirements, with clear and testable acceptance criteria, in partnership with engineering
- Collaborate with your Product Manager to manage, refine, and prioritize the integrations backlog for one or more agile development teams, ensuring alignment with roadmap priorities and PDLC standards
- Partner with engineering and design to ensure timely delivery of integrations and features, with a focus on accuracy, reliability, and institutional value
- Represent the customer and product voice in team ceremonies, ensuring higher education workflows are at the forefront of integration design
- Ensure engineering teams understand both the “what” and “why” of each integration, maximizing execution efficiency
- Define and uphold the “Definition of Done” for integration User Stories, ensuring quality, testability, and readiness for delivery
- Support the execution of the integrations roadmap, ensuring Epics and Stories are delivered on time and to standard
- Monitor product and integration health post-release, iterating on coverage, error rates, and institutional feedback
- Enable Customer Success teams by providing integration documentation, requirements clarity, and deployment guidance
- Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather integration feedback and ensure solutions meet institutional needs
- Step in flexibly to support implementations, sales enablement, or feature demos when deeper integration expertise is required
- Communicate regularly with internal stakeholders (Customer Success, Sales, Support) regarding integration features, releases, and roadmaps
- Capture insights from institutional and internal feedback loops to inform backlog refinement and roadmap evolution
Application process
- Stage 1: Initial Phone Conversation
- Stage 2: Interview with the Hiring Manager
- Stage 3: Meet the Leadership Team
- Stage 4: presentation
- Stage 5: Reference Check
Our take
Higher Education is in crisis. The cost of education is skyrocketing, while only 33% of students in the US graduate in four years, and issues of equity and access are worsening. A big part of this can be put down to a lack of proper scheduling: 75% of universities operate entirely on legacy, on-premise software, resulting in millions of frustrated students saddled with heaps of debt.
Coursedog has set out to solve this. An integrated academic operations platform that helps higher education maximize operational efficiency, its strategy is based on market disruption, using data innovation to accelerate student success. Founded in 2018, it has partnered with over 200 higher education institutions, providing its curriculum-mapping software to more than 1.2 million students in total.
The global curriculum-mapping software market has really started to pick up in recent years, and Coursedog will face stiff competition from the likes of Top Hat, Kiddom, and PlanbookEdu. That being said, Coursedog's focus on accelerating product development has it well placed to continue poaching market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$90m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.4m
Company benefits
- Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service of this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit
- Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access
- Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, denal, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents
- Equity: You'll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Retirement Plan: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment
- Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Rosen
(CEO)Joined Coursedog as CEO in 2024. Prior to that, they were the CEO of Interfolio from Elsevier for over 8 years. They also spent time as the Senior Executive Vice President of MicroStrategy and as a General Manager of Education Technology Business at EAB.
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