Principal Product Manager, GoGuardian
$170-190k
Offers equity
EdTech software for K-12 schools
Open for applications
EdTech software for K-12 schools
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-190k
Offers equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform education by helping schools implement, manage and understand technology.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a senior product leader with deep 0→1 experience, strong strategic instincts, and a bias toward evidence-driven decision-making
- 8–12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of early-stage or 0→1 product initiatives
- Demonstrated success taking ambiguous ideas from concept to validated learning or pilot
- Proven ability to take calculated risks, learn from failure, and apply insights to future bets
- Comfortable working directly with customers and synthesizing qualitative insights with quantitative data
- Strong strategic thinker who connects market dynamics, policy shifts, and funding trends to product strategy
- Experience partnering closely with sales, marketing, or GTM teams to validate value and positioning
- Calm, decisive, and opinionated—while remaining deeply evidence-driven
- College degree preferred
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal / Staff Product Manager to lead end-to-end discovery and validation for new product ideas, setting the learning agenda for how we identify, test, and scale future product bets
- In this role, you’ll define opportunity spaces, design and run discovery-to-pilot experiments, embed GTM validation, and synthesize evidence into clear recommendations for leadership
- This position sits on the New Products team, a team focused on exploring future-facing opportunities and ensuring engineering investment is tightly aligned with real customer, market, and funding signals
- Identify and frame high-potential opportunity spaces aligned with emerging market, policy, and funding trends (e.g., AI-powered instruction, special education, parent-directed learning)
- Lead structured 6-week discovery-to-pilot cycles that rapidly test problem-solution fit with real customers
- Define and operationalize success metrics and Innovation Scorecards to evaluate experiments objectively
- Embed GTM validation into discovery, including buyer interviews, value messaging tests, and early pricing proxies
- Partner closely with engineering to ship real, testable pilots quickly and learn from usage data
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals into clear, evidence-backed recommendations to scale, pivot, or dismiss ideas
- Establish and evolve the experimentation system that guides how the team learns, prioritizes, and makes decisions
Our take
GoGuardian provides filtering, classroom engagement and mental health tools for educators. This supports better classroom management, student engagement and online safety - without users having to rely on multiple platforms.
GoGuardian's product capabilities include real-time monitoring for students' device screens, a feature to identify at-risk students and single click tutoring support among others. The major questioning of the suite surrounds how student safety and privacy remain balanced, which is a challenge the company must continue to face.
Millions of students across over thousands of US school districts are served by GoGuardian's software. With schools increasingly turning towards digital education systems, the company continues to expand its services - for example with support for multi-platform school environments and a digital hall pass management system.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2014
$0.2m
ANGEL
Total funding: $200.2m
Company benefits
- Health insurance: 90% for you (100% HMO) and 50% for your dependents
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Comprehensive time-off package, including flexible time off, sick time, 13 company holidays, quarterly wellness days, and a paid year-end holiday break
- 24 hours and 7 days a week, free confidential services include personal coaching, counseling, self-care apps, and much more!
- Employee stock option
- Company-supported growth
- Paid parental leave for up to 14 weeks
- Company paid short and long-term disability
- A fertility and adoption program to help you support your family needs
- Relax, recharge, and refresh with weekly yoga classes and guided meditation
Company HQ
El Segundo, CA
Leadership
Advait Shinde
(Co-Founder & Chair)Worked at Google as an engineer, helping to launch key products such as Google Pay (formerly Google Wallet). Co-founded GoGuardian as CTO in 2014, becoming CEO in 2017 and Chair in 2024.
Rich Preece
(CEO)Previously COO at LegalZoom, SVP and US GM of QuickBooks by Intuit, and Senior Marketing Manager for the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing.
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