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Teaching Strategies

Director of Product Management, Data Products

Chevy Chase, MD

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Teaching Strategies, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is the leader in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector, providing the most widely used developmental assessment and curriculum system in the US, serving children from birth through 3rd grade. Recently, Teaching Strategies launched a first-of-its-kind integrated digital ecosystem of curriculum, assessment and family communications products to support traditional and remote learning environments and is experiencing significant growth.

The Early Childhood Education sector has been one of the fastest growing segments of the Education market over the past few years. With bi-partisan support, increasing funding streams and an increasing understanding of the positive impact that whole child development can have on academic and life success, the sector is expected to expand significantly in the public and private sectors in the coming years worldwide.

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Position Overview

Based anywhere in the U.S. the Director of Product Management, Data Products will be an integral member of the Product team and a key driver of Teaching Strategies' transition to a digital SaaS company. You will be responsible for leading the strategy, product planning, and overall success of our core data platform products and capabilities. This includes our enhanced teacher-facing reports and dashboards, modernized data infrastructure, and new cross-functional data-informed product capabilities that help parents and educators save time and drive impactful outcomes.

You will partner closely with other product managers, scrum masters, developers, and UX/UI designers to drive the development, testing, rollout and evolution of data products and services that customers love. This is both a strategic and tactical hands-on Product Manager role and you can expect to engage directly in roadmap planning, prioritizing bugs, and everything in-between.

Success in this role will require you to have a bias for action, sound judgment to make high-quality decisions quickly, and a natural ability to build alignment as you drive your team and ideas forward using data-driven analysis, logic, research, and strong problem solving as your tools of the trade.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Be an outcome-driven product leader for one or more agile scrum team (s) in the creation and delivery of our core data services and data products
  • Drive roadmap clarity, requirements, and tactical prioritization in partnership with team members from UI/UX, engineering, QA, internal SMEs/stakeholders, and customers to create solution(s) to meaningful problems
  • Be able to drive strong decisions and actions, leading cross-matrixed engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Build alignment on scope and delivery of product vision and solution designs with technology counterparts in engineering, QA, program management
  • Proactively prioritize bugs, defects, and blockers for the scrum team
  • Engage with customers and customer-facing stakeholders to validate new concepts and collect/synthesize/respond to their feedback in a timely manner
  • Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, and DevOps to build the context and confidence to prioritize user stories, bugs, security issues, tech debt, and other key items on the scrum team
  • Attend all agile scrum ceremonies and represent the voice of the customer as the lead Product Manager for the team.
  • Assist Scrum Masters, Marketing, and Product Support w/ translating technical details for tech and non-tech audiences (e.g., release notes, KB updates, training, etc.)
  • Drive market research, competitive analysis, product usage analysis, and product discovery research as needed
  • Partner with customer support, sales, and partner success teams to serve as a go-to-resource for prioritizing strategic feedback and engaging in product discovery with customers and the market as needed

Qualifications:
  • 8-10 years of relevant work experience as a Product Manager with a strong and consistent track-record of launching high-quality software products and features that customers love
  • 8-10 years of experience successfully leading large, cross-functional teams as a Product Manager in an agile / scrum development environment
  • Experience working side-by-side with software developers, making sound prioritization decisions, and creating reliable pathways to determine the efficacy of your solutions
  • Exemplary communication skills, both to technical audiences at a very detailed level and at the executive level
  • Proven ability to step back and see the whole ecosystem and provide solutions that impact the entire user flow, not only discrete features
  • An advanced technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering is a plus
  • Experience working on products touching data analytics, data science, or machine learning

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
  • Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
  • Health insurance benefits
  • 401k with employer match
  • 100% remote work environment
  • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
  • 100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
  • Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Voluntary life and critical illness insurance

Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

Client-provided location(s): Bethesda, MD, USA
Job ID: teaching_strategies-931183
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Woman founded/led
    • Veteran founded/led

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