Director of Product

ParentSquare • Full-time • Remote (Remote from Santa Barbara, California, United States) • $160,000 - $210,000 / year • 1m ago

Fast Facts

ParentSquare is seeking a passionate and results-driven Director of Product to lead product initiatives and enhance family engagement in schools. This remote position focuses on customer-centric leadership and strategic product management in a growing EdTech environment.

Responsibilities: Oversee product strategy, engage with customers for insights, mentor your team, and collaborate on go-to-market strategies.

Skills: 7+ years in product leadership, strong SaaS and EdTech experience, excellent organizational and communication skills, capability in managing cross-functional teams.

Qualifications: Experience managing products throughout their lifecycle, people management skills, and technical background in software development are preferred.

Location: This is a fully remote position, but the company is based in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Compensation: $160000 - $210000 / Annually

Director of Product

Remote • Full-Time

Who We Are

ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sound simple? We strive to keep it that way! Our mission is to give schools the power to incredibly enhance family engagement for all students. ParentSquare and RemindHub, our flagship products, serve over 18 million students and drive our mission by providing unified communications tools -forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, direct messaging, language translations, chat and more. Remind Chat, our free product, reaches over 80% of K-12 students, providing a safe and easy-to-use platform for direct communication between teachers and families. And our latest innovation, SmartSites, offers state-of-the-art websites for school districts, enhancing their online presence and accessibility.

We are not just creating a product; we are creating empowered educators and engaged parents to improve the lives of all students. We are passionate advocates for our customers and for our employees and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Who We’re Looking for

At ParentSquare, we’re passionate about improving the lives of students and that passion translates into how we think about our product and about our customers. We are seeking a results-driven and customer-focused Director of Product to own key product initiatives and help drive our go-to-market success. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this role emphasizes hands-on execution, cross-functional collaboration, and driving measurable results. The Director will work closely with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to shape messaging, positioning, and marketing strategies that resonate with our target audience.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer-Centric Leadership

Champion a customer-first mindset to ensure market insights drive product decisions.
Engage customers to gather insights, validate hypotheses, and address pain points.

Product Strategy & Roadmap

Identify opportunities through market research, feedback, and competitor analysis.
Define and prioritize initiatives aligned with business goals.
Develop and maintain a roadmap that supports short- and long-term objectives.

Team Leadership

Mentor and develop the product team, fostering innovation and collaboration.
Ensure alignment across product, engineering, and design teams.

Go-to-Market & Launches

Collaborate with marketing and sales to develop go-to-market strategies.
Drive product positioning, messaging, and user adoption post-launch.

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

7+ years of experience working as a product leader in high performing SaaS environment, EdTech experience a strong plus
A proven track record of managing products through the full lifecycle: strategy, development, launch, optimization and sun-setting
People management experience, strong team motivational skills and ability to influence without authority
Strategic and tactical thinking; identifying and prioritizing opportunities in strategic and tactical contexts.
Excellent organizational skills, capacity to manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously and communicate with all levels of management
Working in a collaborative environment revising and iterating strategy and roadmaps
Working with distributed teams across multiple offices and time zones
Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders from development, customer success, sales, marketing and leadership
Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done

The perks of working for us are great!

You’ll be joining a rapidly growing company and have the unique opportunity to truly impact our growth and our product. We’re big believers in work-life balance and provide:

Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage) with an employer HSA contribution
An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
Paid Parental Leave
Stock options
Health + wellness reimbursements
PTO that increases each year
16 paid holidays, including your birthday!

As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The compensation range for this role will be $160,000 to $210,000 DOE.