Principal Product Manager

GoGuardian is an outcomes-focused learning company dedicated to improving learning environments for K-12 education. The Principal Product Manager will lead the discovery and validation of new product ideas, ensuring alignment with customer and market needs while driving evidence-based decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and frame high-potential opportunity spaces aligned with emerging market, policy, and funding trends (e.g., AI-powered instruction, special education, parent-directed learning)
• Lead structured 6-week discovery-to-pilot cycles that rapidly test problem-solution fit with real customers
• Define and operationalize success metrics and Innovation Scorecards to evaluate experiments objectively
• Embed GTM validation into discovery, including buyer interviews, value messaging tests, and early pricing proxies
• Partner closely with engineering to ship real, testable pilots quickly and learn from usage data
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative signals into clear, evidence-backed recommendations to scale, pivot, or dismiss ideas
• Establish and evolve the experimentation system that guides how the team learns, prioritizes, and makes decisions

Requirements:

• 8–12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of early-stage or 0→1 product initiatives
• Demonstrated success taking ambiguous ideas from concept to validated learning or pilot
• Proven ability to take calculated risks, learn from failure, and apply insights to future bets
• Comfortable working directly with customers and synthesizing qualitative insights with quantitative data
• Strong strategic thinker who connects market dynamics, policy shifts, and funding trends to product strategy
• Experience partnering closely with sales, marketing, or GTM teams to validate value and positioning
• Calm, decisive, and opinionated—while remaining deeply evidence-driven
• College degree preferred