Senior Product Manager

Role Description

Great Minds was built on a restless conviction: that every student deserves nothing less than our best, and that the status quo in curriculum has never been good enough. We're looking for a Senior Manager, Product Management to own the strategic direction and health of our Literacy State Adoption product portfolio and to build and lead the team of Product Managers who bring it to life. Reporting to the Director of Product, you'll set the vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy across the Literacy State Adoption product portfolio, translating market insight, user research, and business acumen into decisions that shape where the portfolio goes next. This is a role for a product leader who believes that coherence isn't a feature, it's a philosophy, and who can hold that belief across an entire portfolio while developing the people who execute against it. The ideal candidate brings deep experience building and leading high-performing product teams in K-12 literacy or English Language Arts education, a track record of driving complex products from strategy through delivery, and an unwavering belief that every child is capable of greatness. This leader thrives in a mission-driven environment where urgency, rigor, and accountability are the standard, and where developing other leaders is as important as developing the roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic vision and roadmap for the Literacy State Adoption product portfolio, ensuring every product decision reflects the instructional research and literacy instructional model at the core of Great Minds' approach.
• Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers, setting clear expectations, growing their strategic and technical judgment, and holding the team accountable to a high bar of rigor and craft.
• Set priorities across products, balancing near-term delivery against long-term strategic bets, and resolve tradeoffs when individual product plans compete for shared resources.
• Partner with the content and research teams to reflect the instructional research and the literacy instructional model in the product design and development process across the portfolio.
• Direct end-to-end product lifecycle activities, including: market research, competitive analysis, product strategy and design, scope and roadmap development, pricing, and launch.
• Collaborate with the Content team to develop and execute product strategy related to state adoptions, pricing bundles, sampling, and open territory/large-district opportunities across the portfolio.
• Sponsor and guide user interviews and classroom testing led by the team, ensuring product decisions across the portfolio are grounded in direct user and classroom evidence.
• Synthesize customer feedback, product analytics, and competitive market data into a portfolio-wide view, translating that view into clear prioritization recommendations for senior leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Content, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Design, and Operations to keep portfolio vision and execution aligned.
• Conceptualize and quantify product vision at the portfolio level, including research, market mapping, competitive analysis, market opportunity, and strategic development.
• Provide oversight and ensure alignment between the instructional philosophy, content development, and Great Minds' digital platform in the delivery of features and customer experience across the Literacy line.
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues across your portfolio that may impair the organization's ability to meet its strategic, financial, and technical goals.
• Own post-launch performance across your product portfolio, including adoption, usage, performance, retention, and renewal metrics.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience working in education publishing with a track record of success in product development, digital product management, curriculum development and/or project management, preferably in the K-12 education market.
• At least 3 years of experience directly leading and developing a team of Product Managers or similar product professionals.
• Deep respect for and alignment to the philosophy, instructional design, and pedagogy of Great Minds' knowledge-building vision.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy and priorities across a multi-product portfolio, not just within a single product line.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including customers, sales team, content development teams, product marketing, and senior leadership that require a sophisticated level of sensitivity and excellent judgment.
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making skills to anticipate challenges, issues, or opportunities across a portfolio of products.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to think about ROI, strategic pricing, and the potential value of ideas to help the team and the portfolio prioritize where and how to spend limited resources.
• Deep belief that every child is capable of greatness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s preferred.

Benefits

• The expected base salary range for this position is $140,000-$150,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations.
• The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.