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Senior Product Manager, Student Success

Panorama Education

Panorama Education

Product
United States
Posted on Nov 8, 2024

About Panorama:
Panorama is a fast-growing national technology company focused on radically improving education. More than 2,000 school systems serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted our platform to understand students’ academic and social-emotional strengths and to identify those in need of additional support. School systems turn to our suite of tools to ensure that every child gets the support they need, including school climate and social-emotional learning surveys, tiered intervention planning, and professional development.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston office, or a hybrid option.

About the Role:

As Senior Product Manager, you will lead our Student Success product line, which empowers educators to continuously assess, diagnose, and take action using whole child data to improve student outcomes. You will own the product line’s vision and roadmap, and be accountable to delivering both exceptional customer and business impact, aligned to Panorama’s strategic goals. In close collaboration with cross-functional teams (e.g. Revenue, Client Experience), you’ll spearhead strategic initiatives that maximize product line performance, and ensure optimal prioritization and tight focus for your team. In this highly analytical and technical role, you’ll live and breathe data every day. You will become an expert in the data the platform uses for our insight-to-action tools, and define and act on meaningful KPIs to ensure strong outcomes. This role reports to the Senior Director of Product and is pivotal in supporting Panorama’s growth and delivering measurable outcomes for educators and students alike.

Responsibilities:

  • Product Vision & Roadmapping: Shape a compelling vision and roadmap for Student Success, in partnership with Product Leadership, that best serves overall product and business strategies and maximizes your team’s resources
  • Business Outcome ownership: Own cross-functional strategic initiatives within the product area, identifying and executing on product line learnings and levers beyond the roadmap to expand business and customer impact
  • Cross-Product, Platform Approach: Take a holistic approach, in collaboration with other Product Managers, to identify and support cross-product line opportunities, with a focus on platform scalability and extensibility (a 1+1=3 approach)
  • Impactful Product Execution: Lead your team to effectively execute on the vision and roadmap, ensuring continuous delivery of customer value through a lean development approach. Ruthlessly prioritize for strong focus and reliable delivery from your squad
  • Client Engagement & Complex Problem Solving: Unpack, prioritize, and solve client-specific escalations and needs, delivering results that balance immediate value for strategic partners with long-term objectives
  • Deep Reporting & Analytics Expertise: Leverage your reporting expertise to enhance our in-platform reporting suite, bring our insight-to-action promise to life for end users Deeply understand the key user needs and questions educators ask of data, to develop the most actionable insights that support data-driven decision-making cycles in schools
  • Exceptional Cross-Functional Collaboration: Continuously partner with Engineering, Design, Applied Research & Data Science, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and others in Product to execute and iterate on the roadmap. Facilitate alignment and clear communication across stakeholders, ensuring product health and growth
  • Strong Fluency with Data and KPIs: Set, track, and evaluate the most meaningful product line KPIs to ensure your team is delivering intended outcomes. Lead by example, regularly using data to evaluate feature success and inform iterations and make tough prioritization decisions

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

  • Over 5 years of product management experience, ideally with a focus on data, reporting, or analytic products
  • A proven track record in leading strategic product initiatives and delivering successful outcomes for a product line, with an emphasis on driving KPI-focused growth
  • A strong foundation in talking to customers and gathering insights, with the ability to understand, empathize with, and communicate user needs to your team. You manage escalations effectively and turn client-specific needs into actionable strategies
  • Experience in edtech and/or education (a plus) and a solid grasp of diverse client needs in educational settings, understanding the nuances between technical and adaptive challenges
  • A self-starter with exceptional skills in tackling complex problems and turning ambiguity into actionable solutions. You drive cross-team execution autonomously while proactively sharing updates, surfacing risks, and communicating key decisions effectively
  • A collaborative spirit, excelling at cross-functional work with teams in Engineering, Research, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and Design, and adept at fostering teamwork and achieving shared goals
  • A deep analytical mindset and reporting expertise, leveraging data to make strategic product decisions
  • Strong communication skills, with a history of effectively engaging stakeholders and articulating product priorities, particularly in complex or nuanced areas
  • Experience in managing or mentoring other Product Managers, with a desire for future people management responsibilities as part of your growth trajectory

Salary

The salary band for this role is $138,500 - $184,700 annually

The “Base Salary” range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations. The determination of this anticipated Base Salary range involves the consideration of many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs. Our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits.

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.

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