Product Manager

Amplify Education • Full-time • Remote (United States) • $90,000 - $125,000 / year • 3w ago

Fast Facts

Amplify is seeking a dedicated Product Manager to enhance their data team's effectiveness by crafting strategic roadmaps, supporting cross-functional alignment, and ensuring data quality and governance standards.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include building a product roadmap, gathering user requirements, delivering data solutions, ensuring agile best practices, and tracking success metrics.

Skills: Required skills include experience in Agile environments, strong analytical abilities, knowledge of data-warehousing concepts, and proficiency with tools such as SQL and Tableau.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in education technology, certification in PMP or Agile Scrum, and familiarity with data governance issues.

Location: This position is fully remote within the United States.

Compensation: $90000 - $125000 / Annually

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.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Product Manager to join our Data team.The Data department works across Amplify to empower teams with accurate, reliable, and governed data and analytic tools to support informed decision-making.

As a Product Manager, you will step into a key leadership role in Amplify’s data organization, responsible for managing and prioritizing a roadmap for our data teams that delivers timely, actionable insights.

Essential Responsibilities:

Craft a strategic roadmap: Work with business leaders, data teams and other key stakeholders to build a product roadmap aligned to company objectives. Ensure priorities support meaningful impact in schools across the country and at Amplify.
Embody user empathy: Gather requirements and uncover user stories behind data needs and requests. Ensure solutions truly address user challenges.
Deliver compelling data solutions: Take responsibility for successful delivery of quarterly projects, including establishing and reinforcing best agile practices.
Support cross-functional alignment: Collaborate regularly with business, data, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of priorities, timelines, and project scope.
Define and track success metrics: Establish clear KPIs for data products and measure performance to inform future prioritization and continuous improvement.
Ensure data quality and governance standards: Partner with data engineering and governance teams to ensure solutions meet Amplify’s data privacy, security, and data-quality standards.
Champion best practices in Agile delivery: Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and cross-team communication to ensure smooth and predictable execution.
Lead team communication: Provide clear, proactive communication on progress, risks, and changes to timelines or scope so stakeholders remain aligned and informed.
Drive documentation and process clarity: Ensure data products, workflows, and decisions are documented to support transparency, scalability, and onboarding.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. business, data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics) or equivalent experience
5+ years of Analyst and/or Product Management experience in Agile environments, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to lead and manage a team, including setting goals and providing guidance and support
Understanding of basic data-warehousing concepts and experience with data and analytic tools including dbt, SQL, Tableau, and Looker
Experience using different project management tools such as Smartsheet and JIRA
Strong attention to detail and proven record of managing complex projects
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working in the education technology field
Experience working with data products
Certification in a related process (PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile Scrum-Master)
Experience working with large and complex datasets, with a strong understanding of data governance and privacy issues

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 $90,000 - $125,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.

If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

Amplify is an E-Verify participant.