Director of Product Management

at  CPM Educational Program

Description:
CPM Educational Program has been improving mathematics learning in classrooms everywhere for over 30 years. The ideal candidate is ready to embrace our shared goal of ensuring every student experiences both the beauty and the utility of mathematics, and drive the vision of innovative technology solutions that empower sound teaching practices in today’s modern classrooms. CPM is committed to providing equitable access to learning mathematics and we invite you to bring your unique experiences and perspectives to our team!
This position is 100% remote, with the likelihood of being onsite within the US, up to 15 days per year. Depending on experience, this position may be for a Director of Product Management or Senior Product Manager with team lead responsibilities.

WHO WE ARE

CPM Educational Program is a non-profit educational company that writes and self-publishes mathematics curriculum for middle through high school and professional learning for educators and administrators. We also support mathematics education research. We are committed to providing meaningful math content along with purposeful teacher support to empower all students to become mathematically confident in the world today.
CPM Educational Program is committed to being an open-minded, inclusive organization that embraces diversity and values underrepresented voices and experiences. CPM Educational Program is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, sexual identity, disability, or any other protected status.
CPM Educational Program knows that diversity generates better ideas, inspires creativity, and is essential to building a positive workplace. As an employer of choice we hire and retain the best employees by valuing differences, creating a collaborative work environment, and providing career development opportunities.
Requirements:

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Product management experience in digital hybrid products
• Experience leading high performing teams
• Experience in education sector and/or educational technology
• UI/UX wireframe design
• Generative AI tools for both productivity and product enhancement
• Market analysis
• Web accessibility, universal design, FERPA and COPPA
• MBA or Master’s degree in Educational Technology

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Director of Technical Product Management provides the visionary leadership of CPM’s proprietary curriculum delivery platform and digital learning resources. You will work with executive leadership, key stakeholders and market intelligence to define and drive technology solutions purpose-built to unleash the power of CPM’s curriculum. Success in this position is defined by the ability to ship engaging and differentiating solutions that reflect the collective expertise of subject matter experts, market awareness, innovative technologies and good product management practices.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Lead a team of 2 other product managers
• Lead the definition and development of customer-centric digital strategies and products, interfaces and interactions.
• Support the execution of innovative work across creative and technology teams to promote a positive, open culture adept to rapid change and deployment.
• Identify, scope and execute innovative digital and related selling tools to enrich our customer’s ability to create and sell customized, decorated products, and at the same time reduce friction from customer’s interactions with all digital touchpoints.
• Intake, maintain, and prioritize a backlog of project work from a wide range of sources, to efficiently deliver for the channel. Provide clear vision and scope, use cases, workflows, and product requirements to support development.
• Understand, manage, and communicate prioritization of features, with a mind toward customer and business benefits.
• Track and analyze metrics compared to industry benchmarks, prepare reports on product performance, trends and risks/opportunities for both short and long term.
• Support and maintain product documentation & guidance.
• Drive digital strategies aimed at brand and product awareness and education.
• Make digital expertise, insight, passion and creative leadership a core competency of the company.
• Work collaboratively across the different organizational units.
• Maintain strong partners, both inside and outside the company that bring best-in-class capabilities, technologies and ideas to our business.