Key Responsibilities

Multi-Product Ownership

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple Summit K12 products or major product areas.
• Drive product strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, release, and iterative improvement across owned products.
• Ensure products align with company goals, instructional priorities, customer needs, and platform standards.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term product sustainability and scalability.

Product Strategy & Execution

• Translate business objectives, customer feedback, and instructional goals into actionable product plans and product decisions.
• Lead discovery efforts to identify opportunities for product improvements, workflow optimization, and feature innovation.
• Prioritize initiatives based on user impact, business value, technical feasibility, and operational constraints.
• Maintain clear ownership and accountability for product execution across planning, development, release, and maintenance activities.
• Collaborate directly with executive leadership on strategic product direction, prioritization, and organizational product initiatives.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product Design, Curriculum, QA, Product Operations, and Customer Success teams.
• Serve as the primary Product Manager and decision-maker for owned products during planning, development, and release execution.
• Coordinate effectively across teams to improve communication, reduce ambiguity, and maintain delivery momentum.
• Ensure alignment between user experience goals, instructional integrity, and technical implementation.
• Influence cross-functional decision-making and product direction across teams without direct management authority.
• Partner closely with organizational leadership to support high-priority product initiatives and long-term product evolution.

Product Experience & Systems Thinking

• Partner closely with Product Design and Engineering teams to shape cohesive, intuitive, and scalable product experiences.
• Identify opportunities for reusable workflows, shared product structures, and operational efficiencies across products.
• Contribute to improved product consistency, maintainability, and scalability across the broader platform ecosystem.
• Promote thoughtful product decisions grounded in both user experience and long-term product sustainability.
• Contribute to broader organizational product improvements through scalable workflows, reusable patterns, and cross-product operational alignment.
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and maintainability across product ecosystems.

Product Documentation & Delivery Management

• Author and maintain Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), workflows, acceptance criteria, release documentation, and feature specifications.
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and product reviews.
• Ensure product releases are thoroughly validated, high quality, and aligned with customer expectations.
• Monitor post-release product performance and drive continuous improvements based on feedback and usage insights.

Customer & Instructional Alignment

• Gather and synthesize customer feedback, educator insights, usage patterns, and internal stakeholder input.
• Ensure products support authentic educator and student workflows while maintaining instructional effectiveness.
• Partner with Curriculum and Academic teams to align product functionality with instructional goals and standards requirements.
• Represent the voice of the user in cross-functional planning and prioritization discussions.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Product Management, Education, Business, Technology, UX, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in product management, UX/product strategy, SaaS products, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success owning products through multiple release cycles.
• Experience managing multiple complex products or workflows simultaneously.
• Strong product judgment and independent decision-making capability.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.
• Strong understanding of workflow design, user experience, and scalable product systems.

Preferred

• A history of contributing to K–12 educational technology or instructional products.
• Understanding of the specific workflows, daily challenges, and strategic priorities of teachers, school administrators, and district leaders
• Experience working within workflow-heavy SaaS platforms or multi-product ecosystems.
• Background in UX, interaction design, or product systems thinking.
• Familiarity with Agile product development environments.
• Experience balancing rapid execution with long-term product sustainability.
• Familiarity with psychometric concepts, such as Item Response Theory (IRT) or Knowledge Space Theory is a plus, as we explore future directions for student mastery modeling.
• Interested in the impact of generative AI on EdTech and experience with generative AI tools.

Leadership Profile

• A highly autonomous and strategic product thinker.
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership, independence, and accountability.
• Capable of influencing organizational outcomes through strong execution, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Trusted to drive complex product initiatives with minimal oversight while maintaining strong alignment with organizational goals.
• Skilled at bringing structure and clarity to complex product challenges.
• Strong in both strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
• Systems-oriented and capable of identifying scalable product patterns and opportunities.
• Focused on building high-quality user experiences that are intuitive, maintainable, and instructionally effective.
• Calm under ambiguity and capable of driving execution without excessive oversight.

Success Indicators

• Owned products demonstrate strong usability, reliability, and instructional effectiveness.
• Product initiatives are delivered with improved clarity, predictability, and execution quality.
• Cross-functional teams report strong collaboration and reduced execution friction.
• Products evolve in a scalable and maintainable manner with reduced duplication and fragmentation.
• Product systems and workflows become more scalable, maintainable, and operationally aligned over time.
• Cross-functional teams experience improved clarity, communication, and execution consistency.
• Strategic product initiatives are executed with a high degree of ownership and reliability.
• Customer feedback and product usage metrics demonstrate measurable improvements in user experience and product effectiveness.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple plan options
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO) program
• 10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday annually
• Wellness resources and support programs