Associate Product Manager

Discovery Education is looking for an Associate Product Manager to join our product team. Our product team is organized to enable Agile development - cross functional teams are formed around objectives and measurable key results. Each team collaborates to determine which problems are most pertinent to solve, and which potential tactics will drive the most growth.

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for the product backlog and for the viability of a portion of the product (objective). The Associate Product Manager for in-product messaging and user journey testing will be responsible for evaluating, prioritizing, executing, and measuring success of in-product messages, guides, banners, and user journey tests (A / B or longitudinal). This role will also be responsible for evaluating in-product messaging tools across our product suite, including the impact from campaigns on product and business KPIs. This role will report into a Senior Product Manager on the platform team.

Preferred location for this role is Charlotte (NC). You will have a hybrid work schedule (2 - 3 times a week).

What You Will Do

• Responsible for creating in product messages, banners, and multi-variate tests, using internal and external tools to execute and measure the success of tactics.
• Represents the business needs through defined requirements and priorities for design and engineering teams.
• Contributes to the roadmap / backlog for a product or product area - fully organizing work tied to the objective.
• Represents the needs of educators and students, building them directly into priorities - though collaboration with user research, product marketing, data teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Helps define key results (KPIs) and gathers reporting to measure and communicate success.
• Articulates the priority of tactics and how they tie into product strategy, including expected value, business growth, and direct ties to key results.
• Leans on strong relationships across the product and broader organization to garner buy-in, pull workstreams together, and leverage internal expertise.
• Provides project management leadership during implementation to ensure coordination of release schedules, communicate status, resolve issues, align resources, and adhere to quality standards.
• Validates tactical viability with various release strategies, feedback forums, and data collection technique.

Requirements

• 1 - 4 years product (or similar) experience.
• Experience working closely with digital designers (product, UI/UX, etc.) and software engineers (both front and back end), ideally in Agile / SCRUM process.
• Proficiency in Excel/PPT, JIRA, BI tools, and SQL.
• Basic technical understanding of analytics event tracking and data models.
• K-12 education market expertise/exposure is a plus.
• Legal right to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO.
• Paid holidays include Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve.
• Generous parental leave.
• Annual education and professional development dollars.
• Major medical, vision, and dental (multiple choices).
• Summer hours and company recharge days.
• Company-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability.
• Pet insurance.
• Company paid volunteer hours.

Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.