Product Manager

We are looking for a highly skilled Product Manager to join our team. At Discovery Education, we inspire learning – the product team is committed to making a difference for educators and students.

The role of product management can be captured as follows: responsibility for evaluating opportunities to determine what should be developed.

The Discovery Education 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 Product Manager is responsible for the product backlog and for the viability of the product (or success of the objective).

In This Role You Will:

• Owns / manages the roadmap / backlog for Social Studies product or product area. 
• Represents the business needs through defined requirements and priorities for design and engineering teams.  
• Represents the needs of educators and students, building them directly into priorities – though collaboration with user research, product marketing, data teams, and internal stakeholders.  
• Defines product specific key results (KPIs) and gathers reporting to measure and communicate success.  
• Articulates the product strategy and priority of tactics, 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 techniques.  
• Helps build business cases for growth. 

Core Competencies for Success:

• Always willing to learn something new, not rigid in beliefs or expectations and share new learning or knowledge with others. 
• Have a demonstrated ability to understand, accept and engage with people of diverse backgrounds. 
• A sense of humor because we all need to laugh sometimes. 
• K-12 market expertise / exposure.  

Credentials and Experience:

• 3+ years product management (or similar) experience.  
• Experience working in Agile / SCRUM development.   
• Experience working closely with digital designers (product, UI/UX, etc.) and software engineers (both front and back end).  
• Experience evaluating and pitching business growth opportunities to Senior Leadership.  
• Proficiency in Excel/PPT, JIRA, BI tools, SQL, etc. or similar. 
• Legal right to work in the United States. 

This role is designed to be hybrid/remote.