Product Manager

Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. 

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve. 

Job Description

As a member of the Freckle product team, you'll work on helping develop and execute on our product vision as Renaissance becomes the most important education company of a generation. Freckle is our adaptive practice platform that delivers personalized learning experiences across Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies, empowering students to learn by doing. 
 
In this role, you'll collaborate with our product teams to support the development of features that enhance the learning experience for teachers, students, and district administrators with a focus on building tooling to support our internal stakeholders across product, engineering, curriculum, and sales. 

You’ll work on features and tooling for our internal teams that: 

• Support them in making data-driven decisions in line with our portfolio strategy, user needs, and market expectations 
• Unlock cross-product opportunities with the rest of the Renaissance Ecosystem 
• Enable them to continuously deliver user experiences and business outcomes at an exceptional speed 

You'll support features for teachers that: 

• Give them better information about how to reach their students where they most need help 
• Give them more time to spend on the most important parts of their job 
• Make them advocates for Freckle when talking to their peers and administrators 

You'll support features for students that: 

• Engage them in ideas and problems in Math, English, Social Studies, and Science, and inspire them to work to solve them 
• Give them ownership over their own learning 
• Help them realize that struggling is an important part of learning, and inspire them to persevere 

Most importantly, your work will have purpose: Renaissance is a mission-driven company that takes pride in accelerating learning and improving the lives of millions of students. 

Your first week you'll do things like: 

• Examine the data around an existing feature, join user interviews, and then develop a plan for improving it 
• Examine collected feedback around a specific feature request, talk to users who gave that feedback, and think about how that fits in with the overall product, then create a spec to address it 

Your first quarter you'll do things like: 

• Partner with designers and engineers to design solutions 
• Work with your fellow product managers to prioritize the roadmap 
• Work with the teams such as sales, marketing, and support  to understand how are products are sold and implemented 
• Assess the solutions you have shipped to identify areas to continue to evolve them to better help users accomplish their goals 

Your first year you'll do things like: 

• Have an impact on millions of students and arm them for success in school and in life 
• Lead the discovery and delivery of initiatives to bring Freckle users new capabilities and bring Freckle to new users within the Renaissance Ecosystem.   

Qualifications

For this role you must have: 

• Minimum 2 years of experience in software product management, data science, product design, or related role 
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal, written, presentation) and a collaborative nature, including listening skills 
• Critical thinking and analytical abilities; experience with BI/analytics tools and SQL 
• High degree of empathy for those within and beyond the team, including K-12 students 
• Passion for shipping the best products and achieving the best outcomes for users and customers 

Bonus Points for: 

• Experience designing and executing product tests and experiments 
• Project management and organizational skills 
• Educational background or experience (in the classroom or in edtech) 
• Technical, design, or marketing background 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $82,200 to $113,100  This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits for eligible employees include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

For information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com/