Product Manager, PK-5 Literacy

Amplify Education, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own a product area with full accountability for a 6-12 month roadmap balancing new feature development, user requests, and content debt in PK-5 literacy education.
• Champion PK-5 students and teachers by representing user needs across all product development phases, using customer discovery insights to identify quality gaps and enhance engagement.
• Serve as the domain expert for your product area, understanding market dynamics, user use cases, and real-world performance metrics in K–12 literacy instruction.
• Conduct competitive research to identify market gaps, emerging trends, and new opportunities that inform product ideation and strategic direction.
• Translate organizational north star vision into actionable quarterly plans, including detailed feature/task estimates, release schedules, and prioritized backlogs in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Set and own feature-level OKRs in collaboration with GPM/Director, track performance metrics, and use data to demonstrate impact on teacher efficiency and student outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Curriculum Specialists, designers, interaction developers, learning scientists, marketers, and supply chain teams to deliver solutions that are valuable, delightful, and feasible.
• Own end-to-end product delivery from ideation and requirement gathering through launch and post-launch iteration, making timely trade-off decisions on scope, quality, and timeline.
• Lead product execution by participating in Agile practices, resolving blockers within 24 hours, and clearly communicating sprint goals and broader context to all team members.
• Identify and implement AI-driven solutions to enhance teacher effectiveness, increase student engagement, or improve team efficiency by partnering directly with engineering teams.
• Communicate with precision as the primary point of contact for your product area, providing clear updates to stakeholders on progress, trade-offs, priority shifts, and timelines.
• Operate with an outcome-oriented mindset, celebrating progress on metrics that matter rather than just feature delivery.
• Proactively anticipate blockers and maintain backup plans (Plan B, Plan C) to ensure continuous momentum.
• Balance intuition with data, leveraging product sense to make decisions under uncertainty while consistently seeking evidence to validate assumptions.
• Foster a collaborative, safe-to-fail environment where curiosity is encouraged and all team voices are heard.
• Prioritize ruthlessly, saying "no" to good ideas to focus on great ones, and clearly communicate rationale to teammates and stakeholders.
• Bridge technical, pedagogical, and operational domains—dive deep with engineers and supply chain planners while explaining pedagogical impact to school leaders.
• Navigate creative workflows with diplomacy, determining when educational content is "good enough to ship" versus when it requires additional editorial refinement.

🎯 Requirements

• 5 years of experience in product management, ideally within EdTech, SaaS, consumer tech, or a complex B2B2C environment
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required (combination of education and direct experience accepted); advanced degree preferred
• Proven track record of shipping features from concept to launch and iterating based on post-launch feedback
• Strong analytical skills and experience in Agile environments with deep understanding of sprint cycles, user story mapping, and discovery techniques
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Empathy-first mindset with deep respect for challenges facing educators today

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of $128,000 - $140,000
• Annual discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance
• 401(k) plan
• Competitive health insurance and mental health options
• Paid time off and parental leave
• Access to best-in-class professional development programs

Skills & Technologies

Product Management

Remote

$128k-140k

Degree Required

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About Amplify Education, Inc.

Amplify Education, Inc. creates K-12 curriculum and assessment products in literacy, math, and science. Its platform combines teacher-led instruction with digital activities, data dashboards, and intervention tools to personalize learning for students. The company serves school districts nationwide through print and cloud-based resources designed to raise achievement and streamline classroom management.

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