Product Manager - Edtech

Academian Inc is seeking a Product Manager to shape product strategy and guide the development of educational technology products. The role will define and prioritize features, translate customer and business needs into product requirements, support Scrum teams, manage backlogs and roadmaps, and communicate product direction and release expectations to stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Improve organizations performance on delivering products by managing the cross functional development scope with Product Owners, Business Analyst and Scrum teams
• Support the development of product vision, goals, themes, and features. This translates into a product roadmap and long-term product strategy and feature development
• Participate and help lead daily scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with your Engineering team, guiding direction and focus
• Translate product directives into backlog items, effectively representing customer needs. Serve as the primary source of external information for the Scrum teams, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer, and functional/non-functional requirements framing the scope of the capability –independent of implementation
• Work closely with Development on implementation issues
• Review relevant documentation for technical accuracy
• Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behaviour to stakeholders including external and internal customers
• Coordinates products between departments for global visibility
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Communicate the product vision to the technical teams as well as to other teams within the company
• Ensuring the correct features are being development, considering the value being delivered against the cost of delivery
• Provide weekly reports on project status to Senior Management
• Monitor and identify impediments to release objective and suggest corrective actions as necessary

Requirements:

• 6+ years' prior experience in a product owner, product manager, or senior business analyst role
• Experience in EdTech/E-learning industry
• Excellent understanding of Agile and Scrum Methodology
• Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions
• Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment
• Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Strong attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented
• Strong problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering