Technical Product Manager

Technical Product ManagerKaplan Test Prep has built a world-class learning and assessment platform called Atom to support all of its program offerings. After the tremendous success at Kaplan, we are looking to offer Atom externally as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Additionally, we offer Atom as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to internal Kaplan customers to build differentiation. Atom's mission is to provide the global education industry with a simple, easy-to-configure toolset to create and deliver content and empower educators to unlock their learners' potential and achieve their goals.About YouAs a Technical Product Manager for Atom, you will play a key role in defining and building the platform.What Does Success on the Atom Platform Team Look Like?You get the right things built and shippedYou are technically savvy and can work with technical leads and business stakeholders to ensure scalability of the platform and efficient services to support business growthYou champion for resolving technical debt, scaling platform components and improving performance. You do not see these as separate items on the backlogYou own failures but share successesYou know different tools and methodologies - and when to use them. Lean UX, jobs to be done, hypothesis-driven product management, etc. are tools in your toolboxYou take risks and quickly embrace and learn from your mistakesYou are smart about data and use outcomes to measure the impact of initiativesYou believe in continuous delivery: shipping early and often, and learning as you goYou get platform product management, know how to balance end-user needs with customer and developer needsYou examine market conditions, the competitive and technology landscape, and gather input from stakeholders to evaluate, size and prioritize opportunitiesYou know your customers well and can speak passionately to their needsYou have a great eye for designYou are a combination of the maker at heart, systems thinker and storyteller who is able to listen to strategic and visionary input from business and team stakeholders, understand trade-offs in service of long-term goals and rally everyone together around a shared visionWhat Would You Do?Synthesize, organize and evangelize product strategy and roadmap for platform components by aligning team goals, company objectives, product vision, and customer feedback.Guide teams to build features and run tests that connect to company goals.Visualize features through the lens of build-on capabilities by relying on APIs, SDKs, Libraries, etc.Collect and communicate data coming out of experiments to the broader organizationMeasure progress toward goals and achieve target outcomes while driving continuous improvementDefine Scalability goals for the platform components to support business growth and aspirations.Identify customer needs, validate them with strong data, and prioritize requirementsCreate common functionality that spans multiple product linesWork with the UX and Engineering teams to ensure alignment across UX, Engineering and Product ManagementDefine MVP and manage tradeoffs and risksClient ways to use usage data and product analytics to inform prioritization decisionsCommunicate effectively across all levels of the companyDemonstrate excellent cross-group collaboration skills, including conflict resolution and negotiation skillsManage and mentor a team of smart, strategic, and creative product managersWhat Do You Need to Have?7-10 years of technical product management experience in B2B, B2C context/API Strategy/Software delivery5+ years of experience as a product leader working with teams of 20+ peopleDemonstrated ability leading product teams that partner effectively with engineering, UX and stakeholders.Experience with Agile/ScrumBS degree in CS or related field.Location: New York, NY, USA