Principal Product Manager

BrainPOP • Full-time • Remote (Hybrid in New York, New York, United States) • 1m ago

Fast Facts

The Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Systems at BrainPOP leads the development of internal technology tools to enhance content creation, management, and distribution workflows, ensuring efficient operations across teams.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include optimizing content development processes, managing a product roadmap, establishing product KPIs, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving cross-functional team alignment.

Skills: Required skills include extensive product management experience in EdTech, understanding of Agile methodologies, data analysis, and proficiency in tools like Jira and Tableau.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 8+ years of product management experience, expertise in AI workflows, and knowledge of educational standards and curricula.

Location: Hybrid work environment with flexibility for remote work in the USA, especially from the Eastern time zone.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $130,000 - $180,000.

About the Role

The Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Systems drives BrainPOP’s internal technology ecosystem — leading the squad responsible for building and optimizing the platforms and tools that power our content creation, management, and distribution workflows. This includes our assessment item generator, content management, and authoring systems, as well as other integrated internal tools that promote efficiency, scalability, and quality across BrainPOP’s teams.

By translating company-wide strategy and operational needs into scalable system capabilities, this role ensures that BrainPOP’s infrastructure supports our evolving product portfolio and empowers cross-functional teams (Learning Design, Engineering, Product, and Creative) to deliver exceptional learning experiences faster and with higher quality. The Principal Product Manager serves as a bridge between technical delivery and business enablement, aligning system investments with measurable business outcomes, such as faster time to create and publish content, higher content accuracy, and improved cross-tool data integration.

This role will be based at our HQ in NYC or remote in the US (Eastern time zone preferred).

What You'll Do

Relentlessly pursue efficiency improvements to our content development processes to enable BrainPOP to create more of our key differentiator - our engaging content.
Lead your squad to discover, develop, and deliver user value through cross-functional collaboration
Translate insights from internal users into product requirements and feature concepts
Manage a clear and actionable product roadmap, prioritizing effectively across short-term wins and long-term goals
Establish and monitor product KPIs, using data to inform decisions and optimize outcomes
Collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g., Learning designers, creative team, product managers) to ensure adoption, alignment, and business impact
Design and execute lightweight experiments and MVPs to test assumptions and validate new approaches to develop the most engaging and impactful education content available.
Synthesize market, behavioral, and qualitative research into product insights and recommendations
Stay close to your stakeholders—ensuring your product direction is deeply informed by user needs
Contribute to and elevate squad rituals, Agile practices, and cross-team collaboration
Track, analyze, and report on project health, delivery progress, and squad KPIs, translating complex information into clear and concise insights for stakeholders at all levels.
Navigate and proactively manage dependencies across squads and teams, aligning all contributors toward shared goals.
Identify risks and proactively remove obstacles to ensure delivery success.

You Are

Visionary Product Strategist: You craft a clear long-term vision for your product area and inspire your team to execute on it
Compelling Storyteller: You connect product goals with user needs and business outcomes, building alignment and stakeholder buy-in through narrative
Decisive Prioritizer: You balance competing needs, make trade-offs confidently, and keep the roadmap focused
Data-Informed Thinker: You design experiments, interrogate data, and sense when insights don’t match observed behavior
Skilled Collaborator: You build trust and momentum across Engineering, Content, Design, Data, and business teams
Curious and Analytical: You dig deep into problems and connect the dots across qualitative and quantitative sources
Bias Toward Action: You move work forward, turning ambiguity into clarity and clarity into momentum
Deeply Empathetic: You advocate fiercely for your users and hold empathy for your teammates and stakeholders
Domain Explorer: You love learning about your discipline, the education space, and your users’ world
Agile Practitioner: Comfortable leading squads through discovery, delivery, iteration, and reflection

On Your Resume

8+ years of product management experience in the EdTech industry, with a focus on content authoring systems, AI generative frameworks, and publishing industries
Experience as a project lead, driving the delivery and timeline for architecture projects and deliverables from start to finish
Experience building AI workflows that drive efficiency and velocity for content creators
Understanding of state standard frameworks, core curricula, and alignment of content to those standards
Experience in leveraging the Agile framework of SCRUM for software delivery
Knowledge of and experience using tools including: Jira, Confluence, Mixpanel, Tableau

Location

The BrainPOP team operates in a hybrid work environment: Each role has remote flexibility and an in-person component at our New York headquarters or other meeting locations. Based on the requirements of a specific role, we may prioritize hiring within a commutable distance of our New York headquarters or in another region relevant to that role.

We are able to employ remotely out of the following approved hiring states: