Amplify is a pioneer in K–12 education leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. The Product Manager will play a key leadership role in managing and prioritizing the data team's roadmap to deliver actionable insights.
Responsibilities:
- Craft a strategic roadmap: Work with business leaders, data teams and other key stakeholders to build a product roadmap aligned to company objectives. Ensure priorities support meaningful impact in schools across the country and at Amplify
- Embody user empathy: Gather requirements and uncover user stories behind data needs and requests. Ensure solutions truly address user challenges
- Deliver compelling data solutions: Take responsibility for successful delivery of quarterly projects, including establishing and reinforcing best agile practices
- Support cross-functional alignment: Collaborate regularly with business, data, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of priorities, timelines, and project scope
- Define and track success metrics: Establish clear KPIs for data products and measure performance to inform future prioritization and continuous improvement
- Ensure data quality and governance standards: Partner with data engineering and governance teams to ensure solutions meet Amplify’s data privacy, security, and data-quality standards
- Champion best practices in Agile delivery: Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and cross-team communication to ensure smooth and predictable execution
- Lead team communication: Provide clear, proactive communication on progress, risks, and changes to timelines or scope so stakeholders remain aligned and informed
- Drive documentation and process clarity: Ensure data products, workflows, and decisions are documented to support transparency, scalability, and onboarding
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics) or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of Analyst and/or Product Management experience in Agile environments, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to lead and manage a team, including setting goals and providing guidance and support
- Understanding of basic data-warehousing concepts and experience with data and analytic tools including dbt, SQL, Tableau, and Looker
- Experience using different project management tools such as Smartsheet and JIRA
- Strong attention to detail and proven record of managing complex projects
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in the education technology field
- Experience working with data products
- Certification in a related process (PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile Scrum-Master)
- Experience working with large and complex datasets, with a strong understanding of data governance and privacy issues