Product Manager

SchooLinks is an ed-tech startup that provides a modern college and career readiness platform that supports districts and students through all aspects of planning for what happens after high school. We offer mission-critical tools used by millions of students around the US to apply to college, plan their coursework, and explore careers.

We're a lean, extremely fast-moving, and highly productive team. We are working to refine and scale our existing features and add others to solidify our advantage in the space. There will be an exciting mix of building new features and improving existing features to work well at scale and account for different variations in user needs.

From a product perspective, we have a unique challenge in building our student-facing products like consumer products. We prioritize ease of use and delight and try to drive organic adoption. On the school district-facing side, we have highly robust workflow tools, analytics, permission management, and configuration that rival modern enterprise tools, even those outside the education space. You will be responsible for both sides of the coin regarding the features you manage.

About the role

SchooLinks is looking for a Product Manager for one of our pods that maintains different parts of our platform. You’ll be responsible for a portfolio of products across the platform. This pod is fully built with engineering managers, engineers, QA, and design. We're looking for a Product Manager who can come in to understand the problem space and continue to iterate in the problem space we're working on, either by extending and iterating on our existing solutions or proposing and building new products.

While we do not differentiate between technical and "regular" product managers, or product owners on our team, our most successful product managers are highly technical and deal with API products and data integrations using education data standards such as OneRoster and Ed-Fi.

Day-to-day responsibilities :

• Project management to enable the team to execute quickly and efficiently, breaking down epics and stories, tracking engineering progress, and ensuring deliverables and timelines are met.
• Suggestion and bug triage from our users and backlog ownership, quickly moving issues through the process and ensuring we resolve issues quickly and clearly communicate back to stakeholders.
• Communicate business needs and requirements to your engineering team to create excitement and buy-in.
• Product vision - figuring out what the pod will invest time in to meet the needs of our student users and staff users and to align that work with the leadership's vision for the growth of the company
• Making tactical calls about how to build specific features and what is worth the investment vs. what is not.
• Own the day-to-day team rituals, including standups, grooming, retro, and handoffs.
• Work with district stakeholders to collect requirements and identify opportunities.
• Release management and release notes, along with maintaining documentation for your modules.
• Communication with other departments about the work your pod is doing : customer success, marketing, and sales
• Support the implementation and sales processes by acting as the SME for your team's products.
• You will not be the QA tester for the pod, but you must own the outcome of the products your team ships.

How you'll know if you will be successful :

Your first 30 Days :

You are getting your footing and learning the problem space. You'll work directly with the Director of Product and CTO to get onboarded. Specifically, you will be :

SchooLinks is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.