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At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation's K-8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day. As a Senior Product Manager at Curriculum Associates, you will work closely with the technology, design, and research teams to deliver solutions that support educators directly and indirectly. Your role will involve providing educators and other CA teams with tools and frameworks to extend the i-Ready platform. You will develop a deep understanding of educator and platform team needs, communicate product definition and prioritization to cross-functional teams, work closely with engineering teams to deliver reporting features, and act upon user feedback to continuously improve the product. A creative and collaborative problem solver, you will thrive in our fast-growing and dedicated environment. Your impact will include: - Managing the organization, prioritization, communication, refinement, and delivery of end-user facing and internal tooling and capabilities for the platform. - Driving product design end-to-end, collaborating with various teams to research internal and external user needs, scoping and designing creative solutions, articulating and prioritizing detailed feature definitions, and collaborating with go-to-market teams to deliver features to educators. - Translating product vision into an actionable plan for engineering by breaking roadmap features into epics and user stories, defining requirements and acceptance criteria, and supporting a scrum team as needed through sprint and quarterly planning and refinement ceremonies. - Collaborating with product, design, and user research teams to define new user interfaces and product flows to meet user reporting goals while ensuring a cohesive product vision. - Effectively presenting product plans, ideas, and designs to technical and non-technical stakeholders for feedback. - Collaborating with go-to-market teams to communicate the vision for upcoming features and ensure teams have the product information they need to drive to a successful launch. - Monitoring product usage, analyzing product feedback, and building product knowledge by interacting regularly with internal stakeholders and educators. - Staying abreast of trends, key issues, competitors, and partner offerings. We are looking for someone with: - Minimum of 5+ years of product management experience or product owner in an agile development environment, with a strong preference for experience with clients in a SaaS environment and working with backend features, capabilities, and frameworks. - Proven ability to develop product ideas that solve user needs based on input from various sources (e.g., stakeholder feedback, quantitative and qualitative data analysis) and technology and architecture team inputs. - Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate and collaborate across both technical and non-technical stakeholders, synthesize feedback, and drive decisions. - Excellent analytical skills with the ability to turn both quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights. - Terrific organizational, problem-solving, and time management skills. - Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced software development environment, with proficiency in agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban. - Knowledge of the EdTech industry is a plus.,
