Senior Product Manager, Zearn
Online math learning platform
Job no longer available
Online math learning platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To inspire generations of children who love learning math.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of work experience, with 3+ years experience in Product Management; Experience in education is a plus
- Commitment to Zearn’s mission of providing an exceptional education to all children
- A passion for solving problems through critical thinking and creativity
- Proven ability to take ownership of projects, work autonomously, track simultaneous targets, and effectively prioritize to get things done and deliver successful products on time
- Ability to pull up from the details of your work to put it into the broader product or market context and communicate that context to others
- A desire to collaborate and excitement about multiplying effort through smart use of process and team management
- Ability to understand complex ideas and communicate those ideas in a way that is succinct and effective for all levels of the organization (technical and non-technical)
- A passion for data-driven decision making
- A love of learning, and a love of math
- A desire to join an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment at a high-growth organization
- Bachelor's Degree required
What the job involves
- As a senior member of our product team, you will lead projects critical to Zearn’s strategic success
- Partner with product leaders, engineers, designers, and educators to define, prioritize, and deliver high quality digital experiences for educators and students
- Lead product discovery efforts for key Zearn initiatives
- Given a problem, generate ideas for creative approaches to meet user needs
- Create low fidelity sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes to illustrate new product concepts, gather team and stakeholder input, and validate ideas with users
- Partner with engineering to refine approach and address risks to ensure the product is viable to build
- Partner with design to evolve low fidelity wires into intuitive, accessible brand-aligned product designs
- Anticipate potential go-to-market risks and address those risks throughout the solutioning process
- Continually assess the impact of the product roadmap, leveraging user data and customer feedback channels to identify areas of opportunity to improve the product
- Monitor the competitive landscape of K-12 math products and highlight key similarities and differences to Zearn as they evolve
- Work cross-functionally with implementation, marketing, sales, and legal to understand internal dependencies, anticipate and clear execution risks, and prepare teams for launch
- Deeply understand team workflows in order to anticipate what and when each team needs to know about upcoming product changes
- Effectively tailor communications so that each team has a clear understanding of features and timelines at the appropriate level of detail for their work
- Prepare necessary go-to-market collateral for each team
- Manage the end-to-end product development process for multiple projects in parallel
- Ensure the team is consistently focused on the highest priority work for Zearn, and understands how that work contributes to broader Zearn initiatives and mission
- Translate user needs into detailed product requirements, specifications, and timelines
- Work to quickly clear design and development roadblocks as they arise, thoroughly addressing every edge case of the user experience
- Ensure features are delivered on time and function as desired, elevating particularly complex or risky changes to other areas of the product
- Ensure product launches are followed by quick, data-driven iteration cycles
- Provide coaching to junior team members on all aspects of product management and help guide their work based on a deep understanding of company goals
- Become an expert on Zearn’s product, customers, instructional approach, and mission
- This role is remote, but you may be asked to travel to our New York City office periodically for team building when it reopens
Our take
Zearn’s top-rated math learning platform, made by teachers for teaching, provides children with built-in differentiated support to better their learning of maths.
Zearn learnt that the closure of schools during the pandemic caused children, particularly of low-income families, to participate less with the learning platform. Zearn now leads the push to make up for the missed learning of these students.
A non-profit, Zearn is not driven by money but by educational success of kids. The digital platform recognizes the importance of role models and children seeing themselves in their learning, therefore platforms diverse in-site educators. And daily diagnostics provide bespoke data that flags when kids are progressing or when they need additional intervention.
Funding, including from the Gates Foundation, continues the development of Zearn’s data analytics capacity to more effectively support children's learning.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage so you can work with peace of mind
- Retirement: 401(k) retirement plan that allows for pre-tax and roth contributions including an employer match
- Generous PTO: We believe in working hard and taking a well deserved break. That's why we offer a generous holiday schedule, including a 2-week paid winter break, and a flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Shalinee Sharma
(Co-Founder & CEO)Before founding Zearn in 2012, Sharma spent more than a decade at Bain & Co. leading work for clients in various sectors including technology and education.
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