What We Do At GoGuardian, we’re helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. What It’s Like to Work at GoGuardian

We are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians.

The Role

As a Director, Product Management, you will define vision and product strategy for solving customer needs for a portfolio of products. You will be the catalyst for growth and innovation for our product lines, and will formulate best practices into frameworks and evangelize across the entire product management organization. You will build a strong understanding of customer needs and have business acumen to identify new and adjacent market opportunities that drive growth and expand our ability to support all learners. You will collaborate with leaders across the organization to ensure we properly prioritize and balance imminent needs with innovation and disruption by challenging the status quo while ensuring alignment with our company goals and mission. You will work closely with the product and engineering team, ensuring you have set a clear vision, strategy and path for execution. You are an experienced and inspiring leader with excellent people skills, exemplary work ethic, and have a long history of building lasting relationships, fostering high-performing teams, and cultivating a strong culture.

What You’ll Do

Define and drive a vision, strategy and roadmap that balances imminent needs with innovation and growth for our core product line. Maintain a deep understanding of our users’ needs, education trends and best practices, competitive set, and business objectives in order to develop the product roadmap.
Collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Revenue, Marketing and Implementation/Support leadership to ensure successful product launches.
Lead team of product managers in the US and India. Build strong team culture ensuring content and connectedness between India and US teams.
Stay closely connected with customers to get their feedback on products and understand their new upcoming needs.
Deliver results and customer value by iteratively launching features and products. Strike balance between bias for action and thinking big.
Define clear KPIs, continuously tracking and sharing the performance of team’s product launches.

Who You Are

8+ years of product management experience in tech industry
4+ years of people management experience and are passionate about growing teams and developing product managers
Extensive experience managing offshore teams while building strong culture
Customer obsession, user-centricity and empathy is at the core of your approach to product management
Extensive experience throughout the product lifecycle, successfully leading multiple products from 0-1 and driving substantial growth for mature products
Adept at transitioning seamlessly between strategy and vision to tactical operations
An empathetic leader, comfortable leading teams in high growth environments who leverages multiple perspectives and data to drive clarity even in ambiguity
A master of data and evidence based decision making - you know how to track, synthesize and leverage insights from both quantitative and qualitative measures
Exceptional communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. You excel at establishing yourself as a trusted product leader with your team as well as with executive leadership
Preferred qualification: Experience working with Machine Learning Products
Preferred qualification: Experience in Growth Product Management

What We Offer

Competitive pay, complete health insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee equity plan.
Flexible time off, 13 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a paid year-end holiday break.
A robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing: wellness days, work from home funds, fertility & adoption reimbursement, and more…

Plus the intangible:

A varied and challenging role in an innovative, global company.
Supportive, driven colleagues who have your back and share your passion.

The typical base salary range for this position is $195,000 - $225,000 per year. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base pay for this position and your pay will be determined by a variety of factors, including your primary work location, skills, qualifications and experience. Additional benefits information is listed on our careers page.

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