Product Manager, PowerSchool
$65-133.7k
Cloud-based software for K-12 education
Open for applications
Cloud-based software for K-12 education
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$65-133.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with 2 years of product management experience (mid level position) and will require working cross-functionally with our India team
- Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science, or equivalent work experience
- 2+years’ prior experience in a product owner or product manager
- Excellent understanding of Agile Values and Scrum Methodology
- Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
- Experience supporting and driving a postive team culture
- Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
- Excellent ability to handle a significant workload with multiple projects and context switches
- Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment
- Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Strong attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented
- Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology practices
- Strong problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering
Desirable
- Front end/UX experience
- SaaS product management experience
- Ed Tech experience
What the job involves
- PowerSchool MyPowerHub is hiring a product manager to contribute to the vision and build global product features that will help schools, teachers and administrators engage parents and students
- This is an opportunity at the leading EdTech provider with lots of growth potential for you professionally as you contribute to transformational initiatives at the company
- Gain an understanding of customer pain points and market dynamics
- Enhance team performance on delivering products by contributing to the roadmap and managing Scrum teams backlog
- Design and build global features
- Lead Ux develoment team, standards, and library build out
- Coordinate with other products embedding features in the portal, adopting platform components and Ux standards
- Meet with customers and gather requirements regulary
- Work cross-functionally to ensure product success interacting regularly with sales, support, and customer success
- Contribute to the product vision and evangelism
- SLDC opportunity identification, roadmap, backlog, beta, release management, feedback look and prioritization
- Perform customer discovery, outreach, and webinars regularly
- Implement and track product analytics
- Build user task workflows
- Participate and help lead daily scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with your Engineering team, guiding direction and focus
- Ensure quality releases and follow up to eliminate bugs or implementation issues in a modern CI/CD process
- Facilitate roll out of features including go-to-market deliverables for your features working cross-functionally
- Support customer relationship, development, and feedback loop
- Communicate the product vision to the technical teams as well as to other teams within the company
- Keep senior management updated on product status
Our take
Founded in 1997, PowerSchool is a software provider for K-12 education in North America with a vision to transform education through innovative technology. Whilst the pressures of the education system make it more difficult to individualize teaching styles following student needs, PowerSchool aims to do just that, most recently through its package of cloud tech resources.
PowerSchool’s a veteran of the industry and a testament to its success as an education provider is its acquisition portfolio, made possible through its wealth of successful products. Products created - or absorbed through acquisition - by PowerSchool include a Student Information Cloud for enrolment and document management, a student success cloud including behavioural support and attendance intervention features, as well as personalized learning and analytics products. Its breadth of product scope exemplifies a focus on the holistic approach to education tech.
PowerSchool is a verified unicorn, and despite its age has maintained its position as an industry leader. Recent innovations include the acquisition of budget and finance software company Allovue and the launch of AI educational assistant PowerBuddy.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2000
$31.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $31.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance with HSA match
- Fantastic work environment
- Tuition reimbursement program
- 401k with matching
- Life insurance
- Discretionary Time Off – (Unlimited Vacation)
- Video game break room with pool and ping pong tables
- Employee referral program
- Free soda, coffee, and tea
- On-site gym at the Folsom headquarters and Roanoke office
- Festive holiday parties and events
Company values
- Passion - We act on what we care about. We don’t give up when we encounter obstacles. We are committed to putting in the work to achieve our vision
- Accountability - We understand that the work we do is mission-critical to the safety and success of millions of people. We take individual and corporate responsibility to do right by our customers and our colleagues
- Curiosity - We are always in pursuit of what is possible. We celebrate success and then we say, “What’s next?” We aren’t afraid to ask the hard questions or start over if necessary. We are always learning
- Teamwork - We know that success is not a solo act. We believe in the value of community and collaboration. Our collective knowledge and creativity gives us the power to reach our goals
Company HQ
Folsom, CA
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Leadership
Hardeep Gulati
(CEO, not founder)Previously the CEO of SumTotal Systems, Vice President of Product Strategy at Oracle Corp and SpinCircuit, Inc. and was the CTO and President of eBizAutomation.
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