Senior Product Manager, Data & Instructional Insights

Summit K12 is dedicated to enhancing student learning through tailored educational programs, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of data and instructional reporting tools. This role involves strategic ownership of product lifecycles, cross-functional collaboration, and driving product strategy to improve educational outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple Summit K12 products or major product areas
• Drive product strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, release, and iterative improvement across owned products
• Ensure products align with company goals, instructional priorities, customer needs, and platform standards
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term product sustainability and scalability
• Translate business objectives, customer feedback, and instructional goals into actionable product plans and product decisions
• Lead discovery efforts to identify opportunities for product improvements, workflow optimization, and feature innovation
• Prioritize initiatives based on user impact, business value, technical feasibility, and operational constraints
• Maintain clear ownership and accountability for product execution across planning, development, release, and maintenance activities
• Collaborate directly with executive leadership on strategic product direction, prioritization, and organizational product initiatives
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Product Design, Curriculum, QA, Product Operations, and Customer Success teams
• Serve as the primary Product Manager and decision-maker for owned products during planning, development, and release execution
• Coordinate effectively across teams to improve communication, reduce ambiguity, and maintain delivery momentum
• Ensure alignment between user experience goals, instructional integrity, and technical implementation
• Influence cross-functional decision-making and product direction across teams without direct management authority
• Partner closely with organizational leadership to support high-priority product initiatives and long-term product evolution
• Partner closely with Product Design and Engineering teams to shape cohesive, intuitive, and scalable product experiences
• Identify opportunities for reusable workflows, shared product structures, and operational efficiencies across products
• Contribute to improved product consistency, maintainability, and scalability across the broader platform ecosystem
• Promote thoughtful product decisions grounded in both user experience and long-term product sustainability
• Contribute to broader organizational product improvements through scalable workflows, reusable patterns, and cross-product operational alignment
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and maintainability across product ecosystems
• Author and maintain Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), workflows, acceptance criteria, release documentation, and feature specifications
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and product reviews
• Ensure product releases are thoroughly validated, high quality, and aligned with customer expectations
• Monitor post-release product performance and drive continuous improvements based on feedback and usage insights
• Gather and synthesize customer feedback, educator insights, usage patterns, and internal stakeholder input
• Ensure products support authentic educator and student workflows while maintaining instructional effectiveness
• Partner with Curriculum and Academic teams to align product functionality with instructional goals and standards requirements
• Represent the voice of the user in cross-functional planning and prioritization discussions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Education, Business, Technology, UX, or a related field
• 5–8 years of experience in product management, UX/product strategy, SaaS products, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated success owning products through multiple release cycles
• Experience managing multiple complex products or workflows simultaneously
• Strong product judgment and independent decision-making capability
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through delivery
• Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills
• Strong understanding of workflow design, user experience, and scalable product systems
• A history of contributing to K–12 educational technology or instructional products
• Understanding of the specific workflows, daily challenges, and strategic priorities of teachers, school administrators, and district leaders
• Experience working within workflow-heavy SaaS platforms or multi-product ecosystems
• Background in UX, interaction design, or product systems thinking
• Familiarity with Agile product development environments
• Experience balancing rapid execution with long-term product sustainability
• Familiarity with psychometric concepts, such as Item Response Theory (IRT) or Knowledge Space Theory is a plus, as we explore future directions for student mastery modeling
• Interested in the impact of generative AI on EdTech and experience with generative AI tools