Director of Product Management

About Impacter

Impacter is transforming how K–12 school districts use data, professional learning, and non-academic measurement to improve educational outcomes.

We build AI-enabled SaaS solutions designed for real school environments, helping district and state education leaders turn complex student voice, durable skills, behavioral health, and school-culture data into actionable strategies that strengthen student belonging, readiness, wellness, and academic success.

Impacter is entering an important stage of growth, supported by significant state and national momentum.

National Assessment Leadership — ETS Partnership

As a primary skills-measurement partner for Educational Testing Service (ETS), Impacter supports durable skills and Portrait of a Graduate (PoG) assessment initiatives, including work connected to CAASPP in California and state frameworks in North Carolina, Washington, Missouri, and beyond.

Statewide Behavioral Health — $9M BHPM Initiative

In partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education and supported by a $9 million California Behavioral Health Commission grant, Impacter is helping co-develop California's K–12 Behavioral Health Performance Management system to measure student wellness, belonging, and related outcomes at scale.

As we continue to grow, we are seeking a Director of Product Management to build the leadership layer necessary to turn our expanding product portfolio, AI capabilities, partnerships, and market opportunities into a cohesive product strategy.

The Opportunity

This is a newly created leadership role with responsibility for bringing together Impacter's product portfolio, people, priorities, and roadmap under a unified product-management discipline.

The Director of Product Management will lead and develop a team of Product Managers and product professionals while working closely with executive leadership, engineering, AI development, design, customer-facing teams, and education partners.

We are looking for someone who has moved beyond managing an individual product or feature set and has experience answering the larger questions:

What should we build? Why should we build it? How do our products work together? How do we prioritize investment? And how do we translate that strategy into disciplined execution and measurable business and customer outcomes?

The successful candidate will combine portfolio-level strategic thinking, strong people leadership, technical fluency, and execution discipline .

What You Will Own

Product Portfolio Strategy & Roadmap

• Own and evolve a cohesive multi-product strategy and product roadmap aligned with Impacter's company objectives, customer needs, partnerships, and growth priorities
• Connect individual products, capabilities, data assets, and AI initiatives into an integrated product portfolio rather than a collection of independent features
• Translate company strategy into clear product priorities, investment decisions, sequencing, and measurable outcomes
• Establish frameworks for evaluating customer needs, market opportunities, technical feasibility, competitive differentiation, and commercial impact
• Partner with executive leadership to determine where Impacter should invest, accelerate, simplify, integrate, or discontinue product initiatives
• Maintain alignment between long-term product vision and near-term delivery

Product Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a growing team of mid-to-senior Product Managers and product professionals
• Create clear ownership, accountability, decision rights, expectations, and career development across the product organization
• Recruit and onboard additional product talent as the organization scales
• Establish a high-accountability product culture built around clarity, collaboration, customer impact, measurable results, and continuous improvement
• Implement consistent product-management operating rhythms, including planning, prioritization, roadmap reviews, product reviews, and retrospectives
• Build clear KPIs and product performance metrics that allow leadership to understand product adoption, engagement, outcomes, and business impact

AI Product Strategy & Technical Fluency

• Help shape Impacter's strategy for incorporating AI, LLMs, intelligent workflows, and agentic capabilities into its products
• Translate business and customer opportunities into practical requirements that engineering and AI teams can architect and execute
• Work comfortably with AI engineers, technical architects, developers, and external technical partners
• Understand the fundamentals of LLM integration, APIs, data workflows, prompt and model orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation, reliability, and responsible AI deployment
• Balance innovation and speed with product quality, data privacy, security, reliability, and responsible use—particularly within K–12 environments
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and determine where they create meaningful customer value rather than introducing technology for technology's sake

Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Turn product strategy into clear, executable roadmaps and operating plans
• Partner closely with engineering and technical leaders to balance scope, resources, timelines, dependencies, and technical constraints
• Create stronger coordination across Product, Engineering, AI, Sales, Customer Success, Implementation, and executive leadership
• Improve visibility into product priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions
• Establish disciplined processes for product discovery, requirements, prioritization, development, release, measurement, and iteration
• Represent the product organization in executive-level strategic discussions and major customer or partner conversations

What We're Looking For

We are seeking an experienced product leader who has successfully transitioned from owning products to leading product organizations and portfolios.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of progressive product-management experience , including meaningful leadership responsibility
• Experience within K–12 education, EdTech, assessment, education data, learning platforms, student measurement, or adjacent education technology markets
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple products, product lines, or a complex SaaS product portfolio
• Experience developing portfolio-level product strategy and translating that strategy into executable roadmaps
• Proven success hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing Product Managers
• Experience creating product operating systems, KPIs, accountability structures, prioritization frameworks, and roadmap processes
• Strong SaaS product-management background with experience bringing complex technology products from concept through launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineering and technical teams on technically sophisticated products
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including LLMs, AI-enabled workflows, integrations, and emerging agentic architectures
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams while translating technical capabilities into customer and business value
• Strong executive communication, decision-making, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Experience building AI-enabled SaaS products using sensitive or complex datasets

Highly Valued

• Familiarity with education assessment, Portrait of a Graduate, durable skills, student voice, behavioral health, or whole-child measurement
• Experience operating in a growth-stage organization where processes and structures are still being built
• Experience balancing enterprise customer requirements with the need to maintain a scalable product platform
• Understanding of responsible AI, data privacy, security, and governance within education or other regulated environments

The Leadership Profile

Technical and product-management credentials are important, but this role also requires a particular kind of leader.

What Success Looks Like

During the first year, the Director of Product Management will be expected to:

• Establish a clear, cohesive product portfolio strategy tied to Impacter's business objectives
• Create an integrated roadmap across Impacter's major products and initiatives
• Establish clear ownership and accountability across the product organization
• Implement measurable product KPIs and a consistent product operating cadence
• Strengthen collaboration among Product, Engineering, AI, Customer Success, Sales, and leadership
• Develop and mentor the existing product team while identifying future organizational needs
• Establish a disciplined approach for evaluating and deploying AI capabilities across the platform
• Improve the organization's ability to move from market insight → product decision → development → launch → measurable customer outcome

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary of $180,000 – $220,000
• Comprehensive 401(k), health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible remote work environment
• Significant opportunity to shape the product organization and influence company strategy
• The opportunity to work at the intersection of education, data, assessment, behavioral health, and artificial intelligence
• A high-impact role helping build technology designed to meaningfully improve outcomes for students and school communities

Why Impacter

This is an opportunity to join Impacter at a consequential point in its growth.

The foundation is already being built: major education partnerships, statewide initiatives, meaningful customer problems, proprietary capabilities, and an expanding AI-enabled technology platform.

The next challenge is bringing those pieces together.

The Director of Product Management will have the opportunity to architect the product-management organization, unify the portfolio, develop the team, and help determine what Impacter becomes next.