Technical Product Manager

Vista Higher Learning is a company dedicated to developing culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. The Technical Product Manager will play a crucial role in the digital product management team, responsible for executing product vision, conducting market research, and overseeing product development to ensure high-quality digital products that meet user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with members of the product team, UX design, and engineering to execute the product vision and strategy
• Research market opportunities and trends to enhance the competitiveness and profitability of the products in your ownership
• Develop a deep understanding of user behaviors and product usage to share insight and drive improvements
• Define, track, implement, and monitor KPIs for digital products, including feature usage, customer satisfaction, and learning efficacy
• Collaborate with product development teams (UX design, engineering, QA), ensuring effective communication and collaboration
• Oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, ensuring products meet quality standards, are delivered on time, and align with budget constraints
• Conduct market research, including user interviews and analysis of competitors that contribute to product enhancements and innovations
• Develop clear requirements for new product features and tools, ensuring engineers understand direction and can effectively develop based on them
• Execute product roadmaps aligned to the product vision and strategic organizational goals
• Report on product roadmap milestones and goals
• Apply frameworks to prioritize features based on sound estimations of business value and complexity
• Run hypothesis-driven experiments to drive sound product decisions
• Oversee product development across agile teams, including feature backlog, bug management, and task assignment
• Analyze user data and make sound inferences to answer questions and support decision-making
• Develop fluency in the underlying architecture, codebase, and technologies of the product platform
• Partner with UX/UI design to implement intuitive and user-friendly designs, incorporating feedback from user research and usability testing
• Coordinate and champion user research and visual user workflows to provide clarity of product goals
• Support and embrace a diverse team of product managers; remain open to learning from everyone on the team
• Develop impactful relationships across the organization to effectively bring others into the work happening in the product space
• Support oversight of third-party vendors associated with the product portfolio
• Work closely with cross-functional partners, including sales, marketing, and customer support, to ensure effective product launches and ongoing support
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to gather feedback and insights, translating them into actionable product improvements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an industry-relevant field: Computer Science, Software engineering, Education, Business Administration, etc
• 3-5 years of experience in product management, or related role
• Demonstrated ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to cross-functional teams in the business
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to lead and document market research and data analysis
• Adaptability to a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
• Ability to quickly learn new technical product domains
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies is a plus
• Experience working in educational technology (edtech) or with similar products strongly preferred