Fast Facts

The Vice President of Product at AOE HQ, Osage, IA, will lead the product roadmap and oversee operations, driving the company's strategic goals in a fully remote role.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include leading product vision, overseeing product life cycles, collaborating across departments, and managing performance metrics.

Skills: Candidates should possess excellent communication skills, experience in SaaS or cloud-based product management, knowledge of web systems, and strong problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of product management experience, particularly in the K-12 or higher education sectors, and experience with Agile development.

Location: This position can be done remotely from the USA.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $150,000 - $250,000.

Job Details

Job Location: AOEU HQ - Osage, IA 50461

Vice President of Product

The VP of Product is responsible for managing and guiding the product roadmap, overseeing institutional operations and development, and providing management to support the product division. This role supports the Product and Software Engineering departments to achieve mission-critical goals, ensuring that all functions are aligned to support the company’s strategic objectives. 

Structured as a fully-remote, salaried, exempt position. This position will report to the President and CEO.

We have been a 100% remote company since the beginning! This position is eligible to remote work from the following locations: USA.

Who We Are

AOE is a teacher’s partner for life. We provide art-specific professional development, engaging curriculum, relevant resources, and rigorous master’s degree programs.

MISSION: We grow amazing teachers by providing rigorous, relevant, and engaging learning at every stage of their career.

Position Details

Product Vision & Strategy

• Inform and lead high-level product vision in collaboration with leadership. 
• Conduct an extensive needs assessment with both internal and external stakeholders to determine and develop a short and long-term product roadmap. 
• Work collaboratively with other departments to build cross-departmental relationships to further expand on sales, training, and development of the institution’s products and services

Institutional Key Performance Indicators

• Ensures organizational plans, procedures, and controls are employed to execute and attain goals
• Meets annually with Senior Leaders to create, analyze, and adjust KPIs

Process and Product Management

• Oversee the product life cycle, from ideation to release. 
• Plan and prioritize what (and when) the product teams will deliver. 
• Collaborate with engineering and product design teams to ensure product delivery. 
• Build and monitor plans around the ongoing performance of current product offerings. 
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Supports and encourages the continuous training of team members

Collaboration

• Oversee and direct those involved in the design, modification, and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products.
• Engage with all internal stakeholders to assess and prioritize their product needs. 
• Ensure engagement with the sales, marketing, and customers to gather and promote the most relevant ideas into features. 
• Go-to-market: Lead in engaging cross-functional teams to deliver a complete product experience. 

Leadership

• Trains, supports, and develops the Product and Software Engineering teams
• Leads with a Product mindset and serves as a role model for attracting top talent.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills  
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with the various stakeholders, internal and external
• Decisive management skills exemplified by a record of courage in the face of adversity, and with limited resources
• Proven transparency and commitment to the collaborative process in decision-making that allows for multiple perspectives
• Ability to identify opportunities and transform challenges into innovative solutions and programs that will advance the future of the institution
• Experience with leading the development and use of digital platforms and technology products. 
• Ability to create a vision and also execute on the day-to-day implementation. 
• Experience working on an Agile development team. 
• Ability to concisely break down and communicate complex ideas. 
• Sophisticated communication (written and verbal), negotiation, problem-solving, and collaboration skills to effectively work with other leaders, customers, and stakeholders to evolve AOE’s products.
• Experience with key evaluation metrics that drive prioritization and continued investment decisions within the organization. 
• Track record in developing and taking new innovative products to market.
• Ability to identify, own, and solve problems independently or as part of a team.

Position Requirements 

While we have identified specific requirements for this role, we acknowledge that not all candidates may possess every requirement listed. We encourage applicants who believe they possess the necessary skills and experience to apply for consideration, regardless of whether they meet each requirement to the fullest extent.

Experience

• Product management experience in a SaaS or Cloud-based company.
• 10+ years of experience leading digital products across multiple lines of business.
• In-depth knowledge of web systems and architecture, design, and development.
• Hands-on experience with complex project management and knowledge of various Agile frameworks. 
• Experience working in or within K-12 and or Higher Education industry.
• Experience in data analysis and data-driven product design.
• Experience working in a remote capacity is strongly preferred.
• Travel up to 25% is required for this position.
• Ability to view computer screens for significant periods of time, use a laptop keyboard with accuracy, hear at normal levels and through electronic devices such as laptops, earbuds, phones, and the like. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans with 100% premium coverage, employer HSA contribution, and no waiting period (effective 1st month after hire)  
• 401K plan with 4% match, no waiting or vesting period
• Self-managed PTO (15+ days/year encouraged)
• All federal holidays off + an end-of-year holiday shutdown 
• Monthly mobile stipend
• Home office equipment stipend
• Fully remote, flexible schedule
• 8+ weeks paid parental leave
• Dependent Care FSA
• General Spending FSA
• Life insurance
• Lifelong Learning Fund for professional development and educational reimbursement 
• Free product access (1 FLEX/PRO license to use or gift, plus free AOEU grad courses)

For additional information surrounding our offered benefits, visit our website.

Compensation

Compensation is commensurate with experience and market and comprised of base salary, monthly commission, and quarterly bonus. We encourage you to discuss your compensation requirements early in the process. 

We look forward to reviewing your application! Thank you for your interest in opportunities with AOE. 

NOTE: We encourage you to apply with a personal email and to take the appropriate steps to allow both The Art of Education (@theartofeducation.edu) and Paycom (@paycomonline.com) domains so that you receive all emails related to your application process. We also encourage you to check your spam folder as emails from The Art of Education and/or Paycom can be marked as spam.  

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The Art of Education is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. The Art of Education will not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, color, national origin/ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. The Art of Education is a participant of E-Verify.

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