Product Manager

Stronger Consulting, through its nonprofit Achievement Network (ANet), is dedicated to helping students achieve strong educational outcomes. The Product Manager will define, build, and improve ANet’s product line to promote educational equity, translating organizational strategy into a multi-year product roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a thoughtful product development process end-to-end
• Validate hypotheses for how to increase the impact of ANet products
• Identify and frame critical product questions, define success metrics, and extract insights from complex quantitative and qualitative data to inform strategic and operational decisions
• Define user flows and designs
• Develop and manage the product roadmap, proactively identifying tradeoffs, sequencing priorities across teams, and recommending resource allocation decisions that maximize organizational impact
• Communicate a clear and compelling product vision across technical and non-technical audiences, facilitate decision-making discussions that surface tradeoffs and risks, and ensure alignment between day-to-day execution and broader organizational strategy
• Identify legacy functionality that no longer delivers value for users
• Lead cross-functional product launches, aligning engineering, content, operations, sales, and partner-facing teams through structured decision-making processes and proactive stakeholder engagement
• Further develop the Product Management function at ANet
• Establish scalable product discovery, prioritization and feedback systems that increase clarity, efficiency and impact across teams
• Contribute to the design of a product learning trajectory that builds the team's skills and perspectives on core product management competencies
• Prioritize research to stay abreast of market trends, key issues, and competitors, elevating critical insights across the Evaluate product investments through an ROI and impact lens, making recommendations that balance innovation with responsible stewardship of organizational resources

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience as a product manager with a strong understanding of agile product discovery and development practices
• Strong understanding of a variety of software development practices, a good intuition for complexity level estimation for different types of software requests, and the ability to quickly and thoroughly reach super-user status with a variety of software solutions
• Demonstrated ability to extract sophisticated insights from complex data sets, anticipate downstream implications for multiple stakeholders, and advocate for decisions grounded in evidence
• Demonstrated ability to frame and oversee complex, cross-functional initiatives, aligning stakeholders around shared goals while proactively mitigating risks and dependencies
• Breaks down work tasks/projects into process steps and executes them effectively, adjusting course as needed
• Ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders - including senior leaders - by tailoring communication, surfacing tradeoffs, and facilitating clear and timely decision-making
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• Experience in K-12 education, Ed Tech, or the nonprofit space