Director of Product

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Department: Product

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Location: Remote

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Compensation: $130K - $180K + Stock Options

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Reporting To: Co-Chief Executive Officer

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About EdSights

EdSights' mission is to build a student-centric higher education system. We believe the student voice is the key to transforming education and creating the learning environment of tomorrow. By combining AI and texting, EdSights helps institutions hear the voices of their students at scale and ensure a path to success for all learners.

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About the Role

We are a dynamic and rapidly growing company looking for our first product hire. As our Director of Product, you will report directly to the Founders and Co-CEOs, driving product innovation at one of the fastest-growing mission-driven education companies.

 

You will play a crucial role in a pivotal stage of our company, leading product success within a vibrant, fun, and empathetic team culture.

  

Responsibilities

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Strategy & Roadmap:

• Lead product discovery by gathering feedback, customer calls, and addressing pain points

• Draft and share Product Requirements Documents

• Work with founders and leadership to draft the product roadmap

• Ensure company-wide understanding of the product roadmap

• Ensure adherence to the roadmap

 

Manage Full Product Development Cycle:

• Scope out issues with functional and UI/UX requirements for engineering

• Communicate product requirements to engineering and ensure accurate effort estimation

• Communicate asynchronously and meet with engineers as needed to ensure they understand the feature's purpose and full requirements before starting

• Test product features and ensure issues are fixed prior to release

• Monitor student and admin metrics, SMS conversations, identify issues, and collaborate with AI and Engineering teams to solve them

 

Communicate & Support Different Teams:

• Communicate and train our internal team on any user-facing product releases prior to deployment

• Collaborate with partner success and marketing to keep all customers updated and engaged with new product releases, leading communication strategies

• Conduct 1:1s with team leaders to identify departmental inefficiencies and improvement areas

• Answer all internal product questions, clarify direction and features, and join client and sales meetings as needed

 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management, preferably in a B2B Series B+ company

• Bachelor's degree

• Proven track record of leading product strategy, roadmap development, and managing the entire product lifecycle

• Experience in conducting product discovery and translating insights into product features

• Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with internal teams and customers

• An adaptable and dynamic approach keen to working in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving startup environment

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Submit your resume at hello@edsights.io