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Job Description

Senior Platform Product Manager (Product Engineering)

Our Organization: Illustrative Mathematics

IM seeks to ensure that students, particularly students who have historically been underserved, and their teachers have access to aligned, grade-level, mathematics curriculum resources, and that teachers experience professional learning that leads to enduring mathematical learning for their students.

The Department: The Senior Platform Product Manager is a part of the Product Engineering team. The Product Engineering department is responsible for developing and maintaining technology systems to support the use of IM’s products, services, and partnerships. The department supports information technology for the organization, including hardware and software for productivity, access control, security, and onboarding and offboarding users. In addition, the department manages curriculum production and delivery, as well as measuring IM’s impact on schools.

Position Summary

As a Senior Platform Product Manager, reporting to the VP of Product Engineering, you will collaborate closely with teams across the organization to help define IM’s platform strategy by analyzing our current landscape, our future desired landscape, and the roadmap in between.  With your strong technical background and strategic mindset, you will bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions by gathering, analyzing, and translating requirements. 

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote - United States only

Job Level: Specialist

Travel Requirement: <10%

Travel Notice: IM aims to provide employees with a minimum of two weeks' notice before requiring them to travel for the company. However, due to the specific demands of certain roles within IM, there may be instances where travel becomes necessary without the ability to provide the full two weeks' notice.

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision and strategy for IM's new platform.
• Collaborate with internal departments and external partners to ensure alignment between and among technical solutions, business objectives, and user needs, supported by relevant data, existing timelines, and feedback.
• Gain understanding and deep knowledge of IM’s existing workflows, tools, technologies, and resources.
• Keep ahead of technical work by engaging in requirements gathering and research in advance of new initiatives.
• Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing issues and obstacles that may impact project delivery or success.
• Define and track key performance indicators to measure the success of product initiatives, analyzing data to identify areas for improvement.
• Prioritize and implement optimizations based on data-driven insights.
• Work with the Director of Engineering and the Product Strategy Department to:
• define project scopes
• evaluate trade-offs
• ensure that features are feasible within given constraints
• develop product/technical roadmaps, including the prioritization of features and initiatives
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of prior work experience as a product manager, product owner, business analyst, product engineer, or similar role.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, empowering effective collaboration on cross-functional teams.
• Proven experience managing the lifecycle of a platform, from conception to launch and beyond.
• Experience defining and designing foundational product platforms that enable and enhance downstream applications and services.
• Experience working with technical product layers, such as APIs and analytics.
• Strong Project Management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, relationship-building, collaborative environment.
• Ability to work independently and follow through on assignments with minimal direction and supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to deliver clear, concise information tailored to specific and varied audiences.
• Must reside in and be legally authorized to work in the USA.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in EdTech, education, or publishing.
• Strong analytical skills to make data-driven decisions and proficiency with tools that analyze product usage and performance.
• Experience working with, developing, or defining custom CMS or internal platform features.
• Experience working with APIs and/or non-visual representations of data.
• Strong computer skills with cloud-based systems, especially Google Workspace applications, Zoom, and Slack.

Compensation and Benefits

In alignment with our commitment to equity in practice and policy, Illustrative Mathematics is committed to equity and transparency for our team and offers competitive salaries commensurate with experience and education. This position is exempt. The annual salary range for this position is $145,000 - $155,000.

IM also offers employees a robust benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive group health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision (premiums are 100% employer-paid for employees and partially employer-paid for dependents)
• Self-managed paid-time-off and flexible sick days
• 10 federally recognized holidays plus five business days off between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve
• An employer-sponsored 403(b) plan with an employer match up to 4%
• Employer-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and parental leave
• Monthly allowances for telecommunications (phone and internet) and wellness 
• Home office set-up and maintenance reimbursement