Product Manager - Special Education Saas

Better Speech is an EdTech company providing Streamline, a special education operating system for school districts. The Product Manager will own the feature pipeline across Streamline and Streamline Pro, translating special education regulations and educator needs into product specifications, prioritizing the backlog, and partnering with sales, operations, customer experience, and engineering to deliver features.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and synthesize feature requests from customers, sales, and internal stakeholders
• Write detailed PRDs and translate them into Jira tickets for the engineering team
• Prioritize the product backlog aligned to company goals and user needs
• Partner cross-functionally with sales, ops, and engineering to ship features that matter
• Turn regulation into specification. Decide what becomes configuration, what becomes code, and what becomes a district-level setting
• Own the compliance model. Timelines, sequencing and gating, notice obligations, audit trail, versioning when a state changes its forms mid-roadmap
• Decide what we build and what we decline — based on roadmap prioritization that aligns with company strategy
• Write specs an engineer can build without a follow-up meeting. PRDs, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and the Jira tickets that come out of them
• Partner across sales, CX, and engineering to ship the things that actually move deals and retention, and to say no to the things that don't

Requirements:

• 3+ years of product management experience in Special Education and EdTech SaaS
• Hands-on experience with or deep understanding of special education in K-12 schools — IEP, 504, MTSS. you know the workflows, the compliance requirements, and the personas
• You use AI well and check its work. Researching requirements across fifty states is exactly the kind of work AI should speed up, and also the kind where a confident wrong answer is expensive. We want someone who runs research at scale and then confirms the citation before it turns into a ticket
• You're comfortable in a startup and fluent in Jira
• Experienced AI user: you draft PRD with AI assistance and overseeing the output that engineers can act on without follow-up