Senior Product Manager, Amplify

Platform

$135-150k

This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

Senior level
Remote in US
Amplify

K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

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Amplify

K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$135-150k

This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance

Senior level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

EducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are skeptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ years of experience in product management
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills that facilitate a healthy team culture
  • Ability to develop new features from initial shaping of the problem space through solutioning and delivery
  • Ability to leverage research to effectively prioritize opportunities and evaluate success post-release
  • Ability to identify examples of intuitive, delightful software design that drive the success of a product
  • Proven experience developing deep expertise in a specific area of a product and connecting to overarching product vision

Desirable

  • Experience as an educator
  • Experience with community-driven platforms and features
  • Background in technology, design, user research, or curriculum development

What the job involves

  • We’re seeking a Senior Product Manager with a strong design sense and comfort with modern software development to expand the capabilities and reach of the digital platform that powers interactive learning experiences
  • As part of our platform product team, the Senior Product Manager will collaborate with engineering, design, content authors, marketing and other cross-functional teams to shape and execute our product roadmap. An ideal candidate is passionate about building an excellent and equitable experience for educators and students
  • Be a team leader
  • Empower your team to take on the highest impact work by continuously sharing insights and context
  • Serve as a collaborative leader of your cross-functional team to plan, develop, design, test, and deliver exceptional features
  • Participate in agile ceremonies and shape up processes
  • Communicate across the organization
  • Track progress toward successful delivery, raising potential issues and working proactively to resolve them
  • Deeply understand and share your product’s features, content, user experience, and relationship to the broader product ecosystem with others
  • Lead the communication around new features, including working with marketing and customer success teams to ensure a successful and smooth release
  • Develop exceptional products
  • Determine key problems to solve in collaboration with product leadership by becoming familiar with Amplify’s long term goals and how product improvements help us meet those goals
  • Write pitches for many new potential projects
  • Advocate for reliable, accessible, and equitable design and development practices
  • Partner with data science and user research to set and review metrics, identifying patterns and developing hypotheses for improvements
  • Distill insights from competitors in the education market and broader digital product space
  • This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds

Our take

Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.

The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.

After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.

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Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

23% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$215m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$0.1m

GRANT

Total funding: $263.3m

Company benefits

  • Health benefits: Preventative care, mental health services, fertility benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, and robust dental and vision coverage are just some of the benefits accessible to all eligible employees.
  • Time off: Unlimited paid time off to all permanent (salaried) employees. Hourly employees receive a generous PTO bank. This can be used for vacation, sick days, or personal time—whether you need to take your pet to the vet, or care for a sick friend or family member. Paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability benefits, and paid holidays are also common employee benefits offered at Amplify
  • Voluntary benefits: Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and critical illness are just some of the voluntary benefits our employees can take advantage of at any time during their employment with Amplify.
  • Financial benefits: Traditional (pre-tax) and Roth-based retirement account options with an employer-match benefit, giving you the flexibility and freedom to set and save for your retirement goals. Full-time staff have the opportunity to take advantage of an equity incentive plan.
  • Remote work: More than half of staff are based in cities outside the Amplify NYC headquarters. Employees can be productive and make valuable contributions regardless of where they’re located. Fun is also part of the remote work experience at Amplify—from happy hours to talent shows, yoga, and meditation sessions, Amplifiers can enjoy the many virtual employee engagement events that take place all year round.

Company HQ

Dumbo, NY

Leadership

Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.

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