Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager

Kaplan 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 You

As 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 shipped
• You are technically savvy and can work with technical leads and business stakeholders to ensure scalability of the platform and efficient services to support business growth
• You champion for resolving technical debt, scaling platform components and improving performance. You do not see these as separate items on the backlog
• You own failures but share successes
• You 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 toolbox
• You take risks and quickly embrace and learn from your mistakes
• You are smart about data and use outcomes to measure the impact of initiatives
• You believe in continuous delivery: shipping early and often, and learning as you go
• You get platform product management, know how to balance end-user needs with customer and developer needs
• You examine market conditions, the competitive and technology landscape, and gather input from stakeholders to evaluate, size and prioritize opportunities
• You know your customers well and can speak passionately to their needs
• You have a great eye for design
• You 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 vision

What 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 organization
• Measure progress toward goals and achieve target outcomes while driving continuous improvement
• Define Scalability goals for the platform components to support business growth and aspirations.
• Identify customer needs, validate them with strong data, and prioritize requirements
• Create common functionality that spans multiple product lines
• Work with the UX and Engineering teams to ensure alignment across UX, Engineering and Product Management
• Define MVP and manage tradeoffs and risks
• Client ways to use usage data and product analytics to inform prioritization decisions
• Communicate effectively across all levels of the company
• Demonstrate excellent cross-group collaboration skills, including conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Manage and mentor a team of smart, strategic, and creative product managers

What Do You Need to Have?

• 7-10 years of technical product management experience in B2B, B2C context/API Strategy/Software delivery
• 5+ years of experience as a product leader working with teams of 20+ people
• Demonstrated ability leading product teams that partner effectively with engineering, UX and stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum
• BS degree in CS or related field.

Location: New York, NY, USA