Senior Product Manager

About Us:

Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning platform, offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction.  Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and family communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.

 

Our Mission:

Seesaw’s mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.

 

Your Team:

Solving problems on Seesaw’s Product Management team is different from any other place. You will be given lots of ownership over your product roadmap, collaborating with your team and cross-functional partners on what and how the product gets built. You’ll foster a strong connection with our customers, listening to teacher feedback and observing how students and families interact with the platform in real life to iterate over our releases. Lastly, you’ll enjoy ample autonomy to experiment and grow, and see your ideas pushed to production in weeks, not months.

 

Globally millions of children rely on Seesaw every day. We derive a deep sense of purpose from being able to improve students’ learning experience, and we’re emotionally invested in both the successes and failures. When a child can’t log into their account or something on the platform breaks, we feel it, and strive to fix it. 

 

At the end of the day, we delight in how much our users adore our product. It’s incredibly fulfilling to build something that makes a meaningful impact! Joining our team means you'll innovate on the next set of features that make the Seesaw learning experience even better for students across the globe. 

 

Your Role:

Seesaw is seeking a highly motivated and collaborative individual to join our team as a Product Manager focused on our Family Engagement product lines across our core markets—the United States, Middle East and Latin America. This role also offers the opportunity to support global, cross-functional go-to-market efforts for Seesaw’s core product areas focused on meaningful learning and family engagement in our target markets, the US, Middle East and Latin America. 

 

As a Product Manager at Seesaw, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our global platform and ensuring it continues to provide exceptional experiences for educators, students, and families. Strong candidates will have a background in shipping complex software products at scale, and have the ability to leverage their own intuitions and experience to identify user problems, and engage with the broader team to deliver high-quality, thoughtful product solutions to those problems.  

 

Your Responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Strategy: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to define and execute the product vision and strategy for our global Family Engagement products. Ensure alignment with company goals and values, taking into consideration user needs and market trends.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize analytics tools, including Salesforce, Amplitude, Snowflake and DataDog to collect and analyze data about user behavior and platform performance. Leverage insights to drive product improvements, identify opportunities for growth, and address pain points.
• Release Management: Work closely with engineers to manage product releases. Utilize tools like Claude, Figma, Jira and Github to ensure timely delivery of features and enhancements.
• Product Roadmap Planning: Facilitate roadmap planning to develop a strategic roadmap that balances execution velocity and company goals. Continuously evolve project-level roadmaps throughout the year based on insights and feedback.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a key point of contact between internal teams and external stakeholders. Gather and synthesize feedback from educators, administrators and families to inform product decisions and ensure their needs are met.
• Competitive Analysis: Keep abreast of industry trends and competitor products across our target regions: United States, MENA and LATAM. Conduct regular analysis to identify opportunities and areas for differentiation, leading to improvements and innovation within Seesaw's Family Engagement product offerings.

Your Requirements:

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of a customer-facing Saas product from strategy through delivery. 3-5+ years leading consumer-facing mobile or web products with demonstrated improvements in user activation, engagement, and customer retention.  
• 2+ years of experience working in edtech or within K12 educational institutions. 
• Demonstrated success developing and executing product strategy for consumer-facing products across multiple international markets, with experience adapting product roadmaps to account for localization, regional customer needs, market dynamics, and business priorities across the US, MENA, and LATAM. 
• Experience defining product hypotheses, running A/B tests, and making roadmap decisions based on quantitative and qualitative customer data
• High attention to detail, organization/project management skills, and collaboration across multiple teams 
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive alignment across Engineering, Design, Go-to-Market Teams, and Executive Teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving educational experiences.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, adapting to changing priorities and business needs.

 

Preferred Experience:

• Proficiency with project management tools like Jira and Github, and design tools like Figma.
• Demonstrated experience using product analytic tools like Salesforce, Snowflake, Amplitude and Datadog to define KPIs, identify opportunities, measure feature adoption and influence strategic product decisions.
• Experience incorporating AI capabilities into customer-facing products and leveraging AI to accelerate discovery, prioritization, and delivery.Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic language skills

 

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes perks & benefits, and development opportunities at Seesaw. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Seesawers. It is our expectation that the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Seesaw will land well within our salary ranges based on these factors.

 

The hiring salary range for this position is: $164,000 - $195,000

 

This is an exempt position.

Benefits include: Medical/Dental + Orthodontics/Vision Coverage, 401k Match, Flexible Paid Time Off, Mindfulness First Fridays, Monthly Technology Stipend, Home Office Setup Stipend, Professional Development Stipend, Paid Parental Leave, Charitable Donation Matching, Volunteer Days.

Seesaw cares about building a diverse and inclusive team to better advocate for the needs of our incredibly diverse K-12 users.

 

We prioritize work-life balance and actually walk the walk — we care a lot about our work, but care more about our employee's well-being. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have a flexible vacation policy that people actually use.

 

Seesaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity/gender expression/transgender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, or military or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Seesaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

 

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