Director of Product Management

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

Manages the entire life cycle of our Skills Practice Products and Freckle and promotes it across the organization. Works closely with all parts of the organization, as well as customers, to envision and execute the creation of solutions that meet market and internal demands. Evangelizes offerings internally and helps marketing with go-to-market messaging.  Researches and analyzes market trends, competitors and customer needs to identify opportunities.  Envisions future and creates 3-year roadmap.

 In this role as a Director of Product Management, you will:

• Manage the entire life cycle of Freckle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Manage and grow a team of high-performing product managers
• Ship solutions that dramatically increase student success and support the needs of teachers and administrators
• Ensures the execution of a multi-channel distribution strategy, including product-led-growth principles, as well as top-down distribution strategies
• Specify market requirements for current and future by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers and combining that with the knowledge of market trends, educational research, and other sources
• Drive a solution set across teams (primarily Product, Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, products contract, and overall positioning
• Work closely with an Engineering counterpart to define product release requirements
• Work closely with Marketing to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them to understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customers
• Serve as the internal and external evangelist, working with the sales channel, key customers, and business development partners
• Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market and grow market share plans, working with all departments to execute
• Find innovative solutions for the broader market and define the sales and marketing strategies to successfully launch in the marketplace
• Support areas where product and development operations converge to ensure support and product delivery for international and reseller operations, large customer support and licensing
• Successfully position product with a strong understanding of the market and customer needs
• Successfully identify key buying influences and develop multi-faceted approaches to win sales
• Conduct market analysis, forecasting, and competitive analysis as required

Qualifications

For this role as a Director of Product Management, you should have:

• Minimum 15 years of product manager experience
• Experience hiring and mentoring product managers
• Proven track record of product launches that meet the market needs and business goals

Certificates, Licenses, Registration:

• None required, although may be required by states to register and/or complete background screening necessary for access to schools or state office

Bonus Points: 

• Bachelor’s (BS or BA)
• Proficient with PC applications
• Proficient in MS office applications
• Virtual meeting software proficiency

Additional Information

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

Salary Range: $132,500 to $182,200  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

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