Sr. Technical Product Manager

Interplay Learning sits at the intersection of EdTech, Virtual Reality, and Enterprise Software as it modernizes Learning Management & Content Systems throughout the skilled trade industries.

Since 2016, Austin-based Interplay Learning has been building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees.

Our award-winning online and VR training for the essential skilled trades, including HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Solar, Multi-Family Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance workforces, is scalable and more effective than traditional training methods. By leveraging immersive learning technology, Interplay’s customers are able to train and practice hands-on learning from a desktop, phone, tablet, or in virtual reality. The result is a highly trained employee who is job-ready in weeks, not years. 

Our digital experiential learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with its short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, coaching, community, and connectivity. 

Awards & Recognition: 

• September 2024, Interplay Learning Closes Growth Investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Acquires Industrial Training International
• Built-In, Best Midsize Places to Work In Austin 2023 & 2024
• Forbes 2024, America's Best Startup Employers
• Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards in the Education, General Excellence, and On the Rise categories

Position:   Senior Technical Product Manager

You’ll partner with our Engineering Leads and VPs of Engineering, Production, and Product. Together, you will radically improve our proprietary authoring tools to make them more usable and cost-efficient for skilled trades content development. Your role within the group is to analyze the highest ROI opportunities, architect scalable solutions, and manage the development and testing of tooling features.

Why this position: 

• Mature the secret sauce of our product: content tooling
• Dive into VR and 3D design
• Autonomy to ideate and implement AI enhancements

What you’ll do:  

• Lead the development of tools and features that our content production team uses to achieve their content output goals
• Use business and user requirements to make key technical decisions in partnership with engineering leads to support wise trade-offs and timely decisions
• Make tested improvements to tools that have aged to the point of slowing us down as a team
• Maintain and take action on a strong feedback loop across the content production and authoring tools teams
• Evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and new tools to step-change our authoring efficiency
• Conduct user testing and QA
• Actively look for inspiration from other Content Authoring, Gaming, 3D and VR brands
• Ensure a successful content authoring experience

Who you are:  

• Strong technical skills with a proven ability to work in partnership with engineering and technical leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to successfully facilitate decisions around complex ideas and technical trade-offs
• Good emotional intelligence, enabling effective collaboration and relationship building
• Strategic thinker with a keen ability to identify patterns and find systematic solutions
• Problem-solving mindset with a focus on scale and pragmatic innovation
• Passionate about technology, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Strong empathy and user-centric focus, understanding the impact of product decisions on content authoring stakeholders

Requirements:

• 3+ years of technical product management experience
• Demonstrated success driving a technical roadmap forward