Group Product Manager, Instructure
Dynamic learning management platform
Job no longer available
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To elevate student success, amplify the power of teaching, and inspire everyone to learn together.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of product management experience, ideally in edtech, assessments, or learning platforms
- Proven track record in cross-functional leadership, influencing and aligning diverse teams across engineering, design, and business functions
- Experience managing complex product ecosystems, balancing legacy product upgrades with new feature development
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, ensuring alignment across customers, internal teams, and leadership
- Ability to drive innovation while managing risk, ensuring smooth adoption through clear change management strategies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate product vision, priorities, and impact across all levels of the organization
- Analytical and data-driven mindset, with experience using metrics to guide product decisions
- Experience with agile methodologies and iterative product development, paired with motivation drive results and achieve outcomes
- Proven ability to work independently as an IC while leading large-scale initiatives
- Openness to learn about different educational systems across the globe
- Experience working with AI/ML in edtech or assessment innovation is a strong plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Group Product Manager to help drive the unification and evolution of assessment experiences at Instructure. This role is central to shaping a seamless, innovative, and scalable assessment strategy that serves educators, learners, and administrators
- You will work closely with engineering, design, content, go-to-market teams, and business stakeholders to deliver modern assessment improvements and experiences while ensuring thoughtful rollout for customers
- This is a unique opportunity for an experienced product manager who thrives on both guiding teams and diving into the nitty-gritty of product development and innovation
- Define and execute the vision and roadmap for your assessment area in service of assessment across Instructure’s portfolio
- Drive discovery, research, and experimentation, balancing rapid innovation with a disciplined approach to scaling features for broad adoption
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, data, marketing, and customer success teams to bring best-in-class assessment solutions to market
- Prioritize and execute upgrades and new capabilities, ensuring a balance between modernizing assessment tools, introducing innovative features, and partnering with and supporting customers
- Communicate effectively across stakeholders, aligning educators, internal teams, and executives on product direction, feature rollouts, and expected impact
- Leverage data and insights to inform product decisions, measure success, and continuously improve the assessment experience
- Own go-to-market strategy and change management, ensuring an excellent customer experience
Application process
- All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired
Our take
Instructure is an education technology company, creator of the Canvas Learning Management Platform that allows schools to build the digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges faced by their institution. The platform simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies.
The Canvas platform has grown to become a key part of a large number of educational institutions, from pre-school to higher education and beyond. Much of Instructure's workforce is dedicated to R&D, which is unusual for a company of their size, and shows their focus on innovating.
Founded back in 2008, the company has claimed numerous successes, including going international and hitting the $1 billion market cap. It has made a number of acquisitions, most recently of Concentric Sky and LearnPlatform. The former saw Instructure incorporate Sky's "Badgr" into its ecosystem as "Canvas Badges", whereas the latter adds evidence-based insights to the platform - both cementing its commitment to building the education industry's most integrated teaching and learning platform to support lifelong learning.
Instructure was itself acquired in 2024 by KKR, which will support a broad-based equity ownership program for Instructure employees. This strategy is based on a strategy of employee ownership as a cause of stronger companies. The move is a promising one considering KKRs track record of acquired companies, but time will tell how Intructure fares.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2016
$4m
SERIES A
Aug 2015
$1.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity and 401k
- Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance
- HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D
- Tuition reimbursement
- Work-from-home flexibility and flex time off
- Gym club reimbursements and rewards-based fitness tracking
- Professional learning and career development opportunities, including Basecamp Employee Development Week!
- An innovative community of passionate educators and learners
Company HQ
Cottonwood Heights, UT
Leadership
Steve Daly
(CEO, not founder)They have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA in Strategy and Finance with more than 20 years experience in hardware and software industries.
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