Product Manager, Licensing

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Job Description: 

We’re seeking a hard-working Product Manager to join our Licensing team who is ready to build our innovative educational products and be a champion for both Administrators who are implementing and using our products in districts as well as internal teams who maintain implementations and relationships with our customers. Our product managers partner with engineering, design, curriculum, marketing, and implementation to align our vision and execute against the roadmap. The ideal candidate is passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students, and administrators and is excited to lead cross-functional agile teams.

Essential Responsibilities:

Be an agile team leader.

• Motivate and empower your team to prioritize the highest impact work.

• Develop feature and solution ideas and ensure context is effectively communicated to design and engineering teammates

• Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, scrum, etc.) and track completed work.

• Prioritize your backlog, translate features into user stories, and elaborate on those stories for your agile team.

Communicate across the organization.

• Proactively connect with key partners and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product vision and execution.

• Track progress toward successful delivery. Raise issues, risks, and dependencies, and collaborate to resolve them.

• Deeply understand your product’s features, content, user experience, and relationship to the broader product ecosystem, so you can effectively communicate about your component with a broad range of team members.

• Draft release notes, announcements, and training materials to support the launch of new features and products.

• Partner with design to create intuitive and powerful features.

Develop exceptional products.

• Empathize with our customers’ and users’ needs as a passionate advocate for their perspectives through all phases of product development, taking into account various user roles and user journeys

• Initiate and evaluate user testing interviews conducted by User Testing Group to identify problems and validate improvements.

• Research the competitive product landscape and education market.

• Synthesize data, observations, and other research into insights to help advise product strategy.

• Plan out and execute on a roadmap aligned to company and department level initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience

• 2+ years of experience in product development or a related field

• Proven organizational skills and great attention to detail

• Demonstrated proficiency of project management skills

• Mastery of Agile SCRUM software development methodology and practices 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in technology, design, user research, and/or curriculum development

• Experience as an educator

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $115,000 - $125,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

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