Product Manager, Careers

Infobase is hiring a Product Manager, Careers to set product direction and own the roadmap for its careers and career and technical education offerings. The role combines product and content management, partnerships and assessment integration, customer research, and cross-functional coordination to grow adoption and sales across education and library markets.

Responsibilities:

• Define product vision and strategy for careers and CTE offerings across middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets, grounded in customer-centric design, market analysis, competitive dynamics, revenue analysis, and customer research
• Own and prioritize the roadmap, including technology and content, making the tradeoffs needed to balance customer value, business priorities, and delivery capacity
• Shape an expanded CTE emphasis within the careers strategy, aligned to Advance CTE pathways and to workforce-relevant outcomes at the high school and community college levels
• Build the business case for significant product investments and partnerships, including tradeoffs, revenue impact, and expected results, and present recommendations to product and executive leadership
• Identify assessment and video partnership opportunities, outline deal points, and serve as the frontline contact for those partners
• Own a potential assessment partnership, including integration requirements, delivery sequencing for quick expansion, and tracking of partnership outcomes
• Define how assessment results connect to careers content and learning assets, including careers videos and career guides, so users move from assessment to exploration to planning
• Shape career development experiences (guidance and assessment) for middle school, high school, and university learners
• Manage the careers and CTE content portfolio, including careers videos and career guides, setting priorities for what is created, updated, acquired, or retired
• Identify content gaps against Advance CTE pathways, workforce-relevant outcomes at the high school and community college levels, and the needs of a partner assessment
• Work with editors and external content partners to plan, commission, and review content, holding it to standards for accuracy, quality, and alignment to pathways
• Manage content creation through external vendors, as advised by Franchise Owners and supported by limited staff time where available
• Maintain a content plan and update cycle so careers and CTE content stays current as pathways, labor-market information, and customer needs change
• Ensure content is structured and tagged so assessment results can connect users to the right videos and guides
• Lead voice-of-customer practices, including direct research, usage data analysis, customer feedback loops, and pilots, to keep decisions grounded in evidence
• Distinguish between buyers and users across school, community college, and library settings (for example, librarians, counselors, CTE educators, and students) when designing products that win sales and increase classroom usage
• Track competitive and market developments in careers, CTE, and related assessments, and translate them into roadmap implications
• Design modern, customer-centric product workflows that help the product significantly expand sales in middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets within the constraints of an enterprise-level platform
• Coordinate go-to-market readiness with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, and track results after launch
• Define and report on KPIs and business outcomes on a regular cadence to product and executive stakeholders
• Serve as the liaison with platform, engineering, Vault, and customer-facing teams, aligning future product direction with content strategy and platform capabilities and consulting with content teams at key points in development
• Partner with platform leadership on the definition and requirements of new products and significant revisions to existing products
• Work with Infobase’s enterprise-level engineering team to sequence delivery and keep the roadmap realistic against shared engineering capacity
• Write clear product requirements and maintain a prioritized backlog for engineering, resolving tradeoffs as delivery progresses
• Influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders without formal authority, including when priorities conflict
• Share domain expertise and product practice with other Product Managers and with Franchise Owners
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, education, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3–6 years of progressive product management experience, with a record of building product vision and evidence-based strategy and of working with both content and platform teams
• Experience managing a business partner relationship
• Ability to work effectively with an enterprise-level engineering team rather than a product-specific one
• Strong ability to run and synthesize qualitative research alongside quantitative usage data to create customer-centric workflows
• Comfort building and presenting a business case, including revenue impact and investment tradeoffs, to executive leadership
• Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication, including presenting strategy, roadmap, and outcomes to executive audiences and working with all levels of the organization
• Experience managing or working closely with content or curriculum development, including editors and external content partners
• Knowledge of CTE, including career pathways and workforce experience relevant to high school and community college audiences
• Knowledge of K–12 workflows for the middle school and high school markets, through curriculum, library, or assessment products
• At least a basic understanding of how to integrate assessment with curriculum and learning assets, such as careers videos and career guides
• Experience in education technology, library technology, or another market where content and technology combine to create distinctive product experiences