Director of Product Management, GoGuardian
Pear Assessment
$195-225k
Offers employee equity plan
EdTech software for K-12 schools
Job no longer available
EdTech software for K-12 schools
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$195-225k
Offers employee equity plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform education by helping schools implement, manage and understand technology.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced and inspiring leader with excellent people skills, exemplary work ethic, and have a long history of building lasting relationships, fostering high-performing teams, and cultivating a strong culture
- 8+ years of product management experience in tech industry
- 4+ years of people management experience and are passionate about growing teams and developing product managers
- Extensive experience managing offshore teams while building strong culture
- Customer obsession, user-centricity and empathy is at the core of your approach to product management
- Extensive experience throughout the product lifecycle, successfully leading multiple products from 0-1 and driving substantial growth for mature products
- Adept at transitioning seamlessly between strategy and vision to tactical operations
- An empathetic leader, comfortable leading teams in high growth environments who leverages multiple perspectives and data to drive clarity even in ambiguity
- A master of data and evidence based decision making - you know how to track, synthesize and leverage insights from both quantitative and qualitative measures
- Exceptional communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. You excel at establishing yourself as a trusted product leader with your team as well as with executive leadership
- Preferred qualification: Experience working with Machine Learning Products
- Preferred qualification: Experience in Growth Product Management
What the job involves
- As a Director, Product Management, you will define vision and product strategy for solving customer needs for a portfolio of products
- You will be the catalyst for growth and innovation for our product lines, and will formulate best practices into frameworks and evangelize across the entire product management organization
- You will build a strong understanding of customer needs and have business acumen to identify new and adjacent market opportunities that drive growth and expand our ability to support all learners
- You will collaborate with leaders across the organization to ensure we properly prioritize and balance imminent needs with innovation and disruption by challenging the status quo while ensuring alignment with our company goals and mission
- You will work closely with the product and engineering team, ensuring you have set a clear vision, strategy and path for execution
- Define and drive a vision, strategy and roadmap that balances imminent needs with innovation and growth for our core product line. Maintain a deep understanding of our users’ needs, education trends and best practices, competitive set, and business objectives in order to develop the product roadmap
- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Revenue, Marketing and Implementation/Support leadership to ensure successful product launches
- Lead team of product managers in the US and India. Build strong team culture ensuring content and connectedness between India and US teams
- Stay closely connected with customers to get their feedback on products and understand their new upcoming needs
- Deliver results and customer value by iteratively launching features and products. Strike balance between bias for action and thinking big
- Define clear KPIs, continuously tracking and sharing the performance of team’s product launches
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.
Kirsty
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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