Senior Product Manager

Full-time

Description

Who We Are

CPM Educational Program’s mission is to empower mathematics students and teachers through exemplary curriculum, professional development, and leadership. Our teacher-supporting, student-centered, problem-based classroom solutions for grades 6–12 foster engagement and equity in the classroom, while we strive to cultivate these same values within our workplace culture.

Your Role at a Glance

The Senior Product Manager is a full-time, exempt, role that reports to the Director of Product Management in the Technology Development department.

This position is responsible for driving the success of our user-facing products while helping the director of product management and other leaders evolve our organization into a truly product-led company. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, and our curriculum team to move toward a culture of collaborative, data-informed discovery.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a "full-stack" PM capacity - an individual contributor who is equally comfortable digging into user analytics as they are navigating complex stakeholder relationships to ensure our products deliver maximum value.

This role does not carry any supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead Product Discovery: Own the end-to-end discovery process for new features and products, ensuring we solve the right problems for admins, teachers, and students.
• Bridge Curriculum and Product: Establish a productive, peer-level partnership with the Curriculum and Assessment team; collaborating to define the "why" and "what" before moving to technical execution.
• Support Product-Led Transformation: Partner with the Director of Product Management to implement product-led growth (PLG) strategies and product operations that move the company toward a more proactive, outcome-oriented model.
• Drive Data-Informed Decisions: Serve as a "scrappy" data advocate by using product analytic tools to track user journeys, identify friction, and validate hypotheses.
• Advocate for the User: Bring the "voice of the classroom" into every meeting, using research, empathy, and usage data to guide prioritization and roadmapping.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work seamlessly with Engineering, Product Design, Marketing, Curriculum, Professional Learning, and Customer Success to ensure our product vision is executed effectively and transparently.
• Elevate Product Standards: Assist in refining our product management workflows and tools to bring clarity and structure to our development process.

Additional responsibilities aligned with the needs of the organization.

Your Background and Expertise

To thrive in this role, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience:
  • What We’re Looking For
    • 6+ years of experience in Product Management, specifically in SaaS or digital learning environments.
    • Demonstrated success in User Discovery, including conducting interviews, classroom observations (where applicable), and usability testing.
    • Experience with Product-Led Growth (PLG), including optimizing onboarding flows and identifying engagement loops.
    • Excellent communication and "influence without authority" skills, particularly when managing stakeholders with deep subject matter expertise.
    • Strategic Market Fluency: A proven ability to conduct competitive analysis and market research, with a track record of translating those insights into a defensible and differentiated product roadmap.
    • Familiarity with Agile development and the ability to bridge technical and non-technical requirements.
  • Nice to Have
    • Prior experience helping a company transition from a feature request to a product-led or product-ops model.
    • Experience in curriculum, assessment, or instructional technology.
    • Proficiency in self-service analytics, including creating dashboards, instrumenting user events, and establishing KPIs.
    • Experience using ProdPad or similar outcome-based roadmapping tools.
    • Demonstrated success in working in ambiguity and helping build structure where it doesn’t yet exist.
    • Experience managing non-technical products, particularly print curriculum or educational services.
    • Experience in design methodology.
• Key Competencies: High level of integrity, industriousness, and passion for transforming education. Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills. Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Language Skills: Fluency in English. Ability to communicate successfully when collaborating with coworkers. Ability to take written and/or verbal instruction.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to perform basic mathematics.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Computer Skills: In addition to the required and preferred experience noted above, an individual should have knowledge of Google Workspace, familiarity with basic office equipment and technology (including Internet, email, telephone, and computers), and the ability to learn and use new or unfamiliar software.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: A current driver’s license and proof of auto insurance are required if driving for work.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required throughout the workday to sit or stand at a computer; use legs to stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, and crouch.

Your Well-Being at Work

Benefits Overview: CPM offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee well-being and financial security:

• Medical: Covers full premiums for employees and partial for dependent(s). Includes a High-Deductible Health Plan paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), featuring fixed contributions per pay period into employee HSA accounts.
• Dental and Vision: Covers part of dental and vision premiums for employees.
• Life and Disability Insurance: Fully covers term life insurance and long-term disability insurance. Employees may opt for short-term disability coverage through post-tax payroll deductions.
• Health and Flexible Savings Accounts (HSA/FSA): Includes employer contributions to HSA, with voluntary employee funding options. FSA provides pre-tax deduction benefits for eligible expenses funded by the employee.
• Paid Leave: Provides generous personal leave accruals based on years of service for full-time employees. Sick leave is provided to all full-time employees, while part-time employees in states with mandated sick leave laws also receive sick leave. Volunteerism leave is accessible to full-time employees after completing one year of service.
• Holidays: Includes office closures for major holidays and includes a winter break from December 22 to January 4.
• Retirement Savings: Matches employee 401(k) contributions up to 5% once eligibility requirements are met.
• Phone/Internet Reimbursement: Offers a flat reimbursement for employee phone/internet expenses.
• The Extras: Provides additional perks, such as discounts and services for laser vision correction, hearing aids, EAP, teeth whitening, travel assistance, will preparation, legal document drafting, and identity theft awareness and prevention.

Salary Description

$45.65-$75.27/hr DOE; likely in the mid–high range