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Join Amplify as a Bilingual Product Manager for their Literacy Core Curriculum, focusing on user and market research to develop innovative educational products.

Responsibilities: Conduct user and market research, lead cross-functional product initiatives, represent customer perspectives, and collaborate with teams for product development and deployment.

Skills: Fluency in Spanish and English, excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills, experience in K-12 product development and market research.

Qualifications: BA/BS or equivalent experience, 2+ years in K-12 product development; preferred classroom teaching experience and client service experience.

Location: Remote - United States, United States of America

Compensation: $55 - $60 / Hourly

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 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for an enthusiastic bilingual product manager to join our team, ready to dive into user and market research, cross-functional product initiatives, and the development of our innovative educational products. Our product managers work with Amplify leadership and other product managers across design, curriculum, engineering, as well as marketing and implementation to realize our vision and build and execute against the roadmap. We are passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students and administrators and seek a product manager who shares that passion.

*This is a contract role expected to end 12/31/26.

Essential Responsibilities:

User Empathy – Be a dedicated advocate for our customers and users, empathizing with their needs. Represent customer perspectives through all phases of product development. Visit Amplify classrooms and synthesize observations and findings. Act as a specialist in our customer feedback, drawing insights from data points and sharing them with the product team to aid product strategy. Explore usage data for insights into how our product is used in classrooms.

Market Research and Analysis - Stay up to date on the education market and prepare briefs to share with leadership and product team. Research the competitive product landscape to inform product, design and development decisions. Use research findings to guide strategy planning and product development.

Product Knowledge – Serve as an expert on our products for marketing, sales, and implementation teammates. Collaborate on customer-facing projects including training materials, pilot support, customer discussion guidelines and sales meetings.

Cross-Functional Product Leadership - Lead product initiatives that span across multiple teams, including content, product, design, engineering, platform, marketing and measurement. Drive the delivery of initiatives and large-scale projects from initial concept and planning, through execution and release.

Product Planning – Conduct research to identify and understand product issues that our users face and support those issues with data. Work with teammates to propose solutions and build out initiatives to overcome challenges. Create and pitch initiatives grounded in research for inclusion in the product roadmap. Leverage AI tools to innovate our practices, in service of both more efficient development and increasing product quality/impact.

Product Design – Collaborate with key partners on design, curriculum, and engineering teams to execute on goals. Participate in human-centered design workshops. Make informed decisions by analyzing data from product metrics / user behavior and prototyping results.

User Testing - Lead user testing of new product ideas, including running focus groups with teachers, getting feedback on prototypes, and coordinating feature pilots with live classrooms. Design research plans, interview participants, analyze data, and recommend actions based on findings.

Team Leadership – Communicate product goals and objectives regularly to your project team to motivate them. Actively participate in your team’s ceremonies and be readily available to address questions, concerns, and blockers.

Product Development – Partner with the curriculum and design teams to ensure regular coordination of features and product design guidelines throughout the product development phase. Ensure product quality and scope meet Amplify standards. 

Product Deployment – Draft internal communications, release notes and training materials for the launch of new features. Review customer-facing information before it is released. Support troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in K-12 product development.
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Fluency in Spanish and English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Classroom teaching experience at the elementary, middle, or high school level
• Client service experience either in consulting or another field
• Outstanding writing skills, including extraordinary attention to details of grammar, punctuation, phrasing, tone, and structure
• Ability to coordinate and effectively communicate between multiple stakeholders at varying levels of an organization
• Experience in market research

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $55 - $60.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email [email protected].

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If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

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