Senior Product Manager, Content Creation

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
We're seeking a hardworking senior product manager to join the core platform team, ready to dive into cross-functional product initiatives, building our innovative educational products, and ensuring they work outstandingly well in classrooms. Our product managers partner with engineering, design, curriculum, marketing, and implementation to understand our vision and collaborate to build and execute against the roadmap. An ideal candidate is passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students, and administrators and is excited to lead cross-functional agile teams. This role will lead one of our "Content Creation" teams developing solutions across Amplify products.
Responsibilities of the Senior Product Manager:

• Be an agile team leader.
• Motivate and empower your team to take on the highest impact work.
• Serve as a key member and collaborative leader of your cross-functional agile team to plan, develop, design, test, and deliver working software and content.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, scrum, etc.) and accept completed work.
• Prioritize your backlog, break down features into user stories, and elaborate on those stories for your agile team.

Communicate across the organization:

• Proactively connect with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product vision and execution.
• Track progress toward successful delivery. Raise issues, risks, and dependencies, and work collaboratively to resolve them.
• Deeply understand your product's features, content, user experience, and relationship to the broader product ecosystem, so you can efficiently communicate about your component with a broad range of team members.
• Draft release notes, announcements, and training materials to support the launch of new features and products.

Develop outstanding products:

• Empathize with our customers' and users' needs and be a hardworking advocate for their points of view through all phases of product development.
• Conduct user testing interviews, coordinate and recruit for pilots, and visit Amplify classrooms to identify problems and validate improvements.
• Research the competitive product landscape and education market.
• Synthesize data, observations, and other research into insights to help inform product strategy.

Basic Qualifications of the Senior Product Manager:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in a product management role
• Experience with the software and content development life cycle, from concept to delivery, using Agile practices
• Organizational skills and outstanding attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Strong project management skills

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Product Manager:

• Experience as an educator
• Background in technology, design, user research, curriculum development
• MBA or advanced degree

*Amplify requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.