Senior Director Product Management -Platform

Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom.

Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

As the Senior Director Product Management, you'll lead an amazing team of product managers and owners to define and deliver the vision and strategic roadmap for our platform, which supports key product verticals like Assessment, Practice, and Journeys. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Chief Product Officer and other Product Managers to ensure alignment of platform strategies with overall company objectives. 

Your primary customers will be Renaissance product teams who work directly with schools. You’ll develop deep understanding of the complex challenges these teams are facing and lead your team in building systems that tackle those challenges. 

We believe interoperability work should be lean and human-centered, just like any other software development work. You & your team will use practices like Lean, User-Centered Design, and CI/CD to move quickly and stay focused on what matters. 

As a Senior Director Product Management you will:  

• Lead and Mentor a team of product managers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability. 
• Develop and articulate a clear vision and roadmap for the platform, ensuring it supports a range of product verticals including Assessment, Practice, and end-to-end experiences like Journeys. 
• Collaborate with the CTO and interface with the CPO, Product leaders , and Engineering leaders to align platform development with the broader product strategy and company goals. 
• Drive the development and implementation of core services such as Identity, Rostering, Provisioning, and Licensing to create a seamless and integrated user experience across our platform. 
• Utilize data-driven insights to inform decision-making and prioritize platform enhancements that deliver business value. 
• Act as a key spokesperson for the platform, articulating the value proposition to internal stakeholders and external partners. 
• Stay connected to industry trends, technological advancements such as AI, leveraging this knowledge to maintain our competitive edge. 

Qualifications

For this role as Senior Director Product Management, you must have:  

• 10+ years of progressively accountable product strategy, product lifecycle, product commercial management experience, with demonstrated results of success  
• Experience leading Product Management professionals to achieve high degrees of customer satisfaction, and attaining commercial product goals  
• Ability to prioritize work, make tradeoffs, drive deadlines, and deliver projects on time, on budget  
• Demonstrated experience nurturing a culture that celebrates diversity of thought, risk-taking, openness to new ideas, and a fail-fast mentality  

Bonus Points:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Operations, Marketing, or equivalent; or a Bachelor’s degree in another discipline plus substantial Product Management experience, training and/or certification; MBA a plus 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $160,300 to $220,400 This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits for eligible employees include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

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