Senior Product Manager

Flashlight Learning is a young company focused on accelerating English language development for students. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead discovery efforts, manage prioritization, and drive product areas from problem to measurable outcome while collaborating closely with various teams.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and lead discovery efforts, validating hypotheses with triangulated data sources
• Balance problem and solution ideation, informed by customer feedback and company objectives and strategy
• Manage prioritization across multiple streams, incorporating user, market, and business insights into plans
• Adopt an experimental, iterative approach (Product Kata) to guide the team toward the highest-value work
• Design experiments and triangulate data sources for ongoing product refinement; use data to track product impact
• Lead go-to-market strategy and execution, ensure internal teams are trained and equipped, and orchestrate incremental releases and customer feedback loops
• Navigate complexity and keep cross-functional teams aligned on outcomes and scope, orchestrating clear lines of communication
• Lead the collaborative design and development process, resolve friction with context and empathy, and exert lateral influence by speaking the engineer's language effectively
• Coach others in lean thinking; advocate for speed, experimentation, and outcome focus
• Own complex systems or flows, driving toward outcomes tied to company goals and strategy
• Represent the voice of the customer at scale, balancing user and business needs
• Serve as a role model for collaboration, coaching others in healthy team dynamics
• Communicate complex ideas clearly across the org, bringing clarity to ambiguity
• Coach peers and influence cross-functional planning and team development

Requirements:

• Track record owning end-to-end delivery for complex product areas, from discovery through launch and measurement
• Experience running structured discovery and validating hypotheses with multiple, triangulated data sources
• Comfort managing prioritization across several concurrent work streams, not just a single roadmap lane
• Experience leading go-to-market planning, including internal enablement and phased/incremental rollout
• Strong cross-functional influence: able to align Engineering, Curriculum, Scoring, Customer Success, and Leadership without formal authority
• Demonstrated ability to coach or mentor other PMs
• Years of experience: 5+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience in K-12, EdTech, or working with school districts is a plus but not required
• Familiarity with lean/experimental product development methods (e.g., Product Kata)
• Experience building or scaling analytics practices to track product impact
• A passion for education and a desire to contribute to better student and teacher outcomes