Senior Technical Product Manager, Top Hat
Data Platform
+ Stock Options
Interactive software for higher education
Open for applications
Interactive software for higher education
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data management, a deep understanding of product development, and a passion for delivering impactful data solutions
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a technical field
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on data platforms and scalable solutions
- Experience in developing data-driven platforms for personalized experiences across various channels and managing large-scale data workflows is a must
- Experience in building systems that orchestrate and execute complex data workflows is a must
- Agile & Experimental Mindset: Embraces a truly agile dev environment, building products in small experimental iterations to deliver value as quickly as possible, measuring its performance and using the results to inform next steps
- Data & Analytical Prowess: Highly curious and analytical mindset
- Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Tableau) is a must
- Technical Skills: Familiarity and experience with application development is a must
- Can discuss technical concepts with ease, identify trade-offs in different approaches, and uncover new opportunities to create customer value in close collaboration with engineers and architects
- Strong understanding of data architecture, ETL processes, data warehousing, and analytics tools is preferred
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is a plus
- Complex Problem Solving Skills: Experience managing large, complex technical problems with many dependencies by breaking big problems into many smaller, prioritized problems
- Communication Skills: Can persuade and galvanize others behind the product and vision, explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and guide with empathy to find clarity through ambiguous situations
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to lead our Data Platform team and make our dream of truly personalized educational experiences a reality, one step at a time
- This role involves working closely with engineering, analytics, data science and other cross-functional teams across the business to ensure the platform meets the needs of our internal and external users
- Support our engineering team in building a robust, scalable and secure data platform that serves as the foundation and source of truth for the business
- Lead the development of data-differentiated product offerings for both internal and external customers, and encouraging and enabling other teams to do the same
- Develop a long-term strategy for our data product offerings, including exploring potential integrations with 3rd party ecosystems and uncovering new opportunities to drive revenue
- Develop and communicate a clear vision and strategy for the data platform, aligning with overall business objectives
- Define product goals, KPIs, and metrics to measure success and drive continuous improvement
- Create and maintain a detailed product roadmap, prioritizing features and improvements based on business value, user needs, and technical feasibility
- Manage the product lifecycle from concept through development, launch, and ongoing enhancements
- Validate features through testing and user feedback, and iterate based on findings
- Amplify the impact of other teams by empowering them with the right data to truly personalize the product experience
- Ensure the platform supports robust data governance, security, and compliance requirements
- Collaborate with data engineers and architecture to optimize data integration, quality, and accessibility
- Engage with stakeholders across the organization to gather requirements, provide updates, and align on priorities
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers relied on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat marketed the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gave them a cut and built a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. Now they can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a digitized subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work
- A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- We’re currently embracing an engaging, remote-first culture and work experience
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company values
- Good In The Woods - We believe that our success depends on being agile, resourceful and brave—no matter how great the challenge.
- There Is No 'I' In Top Hat - We believe that teamwork is the key to meeting our goals. We work hard, we work smart and we work without ego.
- Aggressive Growth - We believe in moving fast and aiming high, and that our company’s growth will revolutionize higher education
- Treat Professors Like Heroes - We believe professors should be celebrated for their contributions to higher education
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Articles
Leadership
Joe Rohrlich
(CEO, not founder)Prior to joining Top Hat, Rohrlich led a range of customer and go-to-market teams during his 11-year tenure at Bazaarvoice, the market leader in SaaS user-generated content solutions for eCommerce. Before that, Rohrlich led account management at a Procter & Gamble-owned marketing consultancy.
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