Senior Product Manager (AI-Native)

Overview of the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our Marketplace Incentives, a key strategic growth lever in Nerdy's two-sided learning marketplace.

In this role, you’ll own the design, experimentation, and rollout of incentive structures that reward tutors for delivering great learning outcomes and driving student retention. You’ll use economic modeling, gamified UX, and behavioral analytics to test and optimize tutor-facing programs that shape marketplace supply-side behavior at scale.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) -  the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale. We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level
  From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.

• Entrepreneurial velocity
  Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.

• Free-market rigor
  Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.

• Full-stack ownership
  You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.

• Reward for contribution
  Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.

• Relentless exploration
  Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.

• Is Apolitical
  You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter
• Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter
• Q3-2024 Shareholder Letter

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product management experience in consumer software, marketplaces, fintech, or SaaS environments.
• Proven track record building incentive, rewards, or loyalty systems that successfully influenced user behavior at scale.
• Deep familiarity with behavioral economics, habit loops, or gamified UX design.
• Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).
• Strong analytical capabilities; fluency in using data to inform decisions and measure program efficacy
• Self-starter with a strong bias for action and the ability to drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable with a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems with high attention to detail.
• Excellent collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels.

Responsibilities:

• Design and own the roadmap for tutor incentive programs, including reward tiers, monetary bonuses, and behavior-linked recognition systems.
• Run A/B test economic models and UX flows that nudge tutors toward high-impact behaviors.
• Work closely with engineering to design, build, and launch scalable features from backend logic to frontend merchandising.
• Define how incentives are communicated across the tutor experience and ensure clarity and motivation.
•  Collaborate with operations, CX, growth, and marketplace teams to align incentive programs with overall tutor strategy.
•  Build the KPIs that matter: performance uplift, program participation, tutor retention, and downstream student outcomes.

Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:

At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:

• Competitive Compensation & Advancement: Market-leading salary paired with clear promotion pathways and equity (RSUs) - become an owner in our success.
• Retirement Made Simple: 401(k) plan with company match and immediate vesting. 
• A Remote-First Culture: We embrace flexibility across time zones and working styles to attract top talent and meet learners where they are.
• Flexible Time Off: Recharge on your terms, ensuring maximum productivity.
• Continuous Learning: Access an all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household, including 1:1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and our full suite of learning products and services.
• Supercharge with AI: Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate your workflow.
• You’re Covered: Medical, dental, vision, life, STD & LTD plans plus strong maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves - numerous options for you and your family.

The Bottom Line:

If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what’s next, you’ll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn’t a traditional corporate environment - it’s a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.