Fast Facts
PowerSchool is seeking a Senior Product Manager specializing in Education Finance to lead the modernization of financial systems used by K-12 schools. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance product offerings, ensuring they meet the financial needs of educational institutions.
Responsibilities: The Senior Product Manager will define the product vision and roadmap for cash and fund accounting capabilities, conduct user discovery with educational finance professionals, and ensure feature compliance with internal controls and audit requirements.
Skills: Candidates should have a CPA or CMA designation, experience with cash and fund accounting, and strong product management skills including roadmap planning and data analysis.
Qualifications: Experience in K-12 education finance or public sector accounting is preferred, with familiarity in GASB reporting and internal control frameworks.
Location: This position is located in the United States without any specified travel requirements.
Compensation: $114900 - $187700 / Annually
Overview
At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.
Team Overview
Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.
Responsibilities
About the Role
Imagine leading the transformation of financial systems that power thousands of schools across the country. As our Principal Product Manager, Education Finance, you won’t just manage features—you’ll help drive modernization across two mission-critical products, ensuring educators and administrators have the tools they need to focus on what matters most: students.
We’re looking for a Financial Product Manager with deep knowledge of cash accounting and fund accounting to lead the development of financial features for school districts and charter networks. This role is ideal for a CPA or CMA who understands the complexities of GASB reporting, student activity funds, encumbrances, and grant compliance, and wants to shape technology that simplifies district finance operations.
You will own discovery, prioritization, and delivery for features that support cash-basis workflows, fund-level reporting, fund balance controls, encumbrances, grants, and multi-entity structures. Partner closely with customers, design, engineering, and go-to-market teams to translate complex accounting requirements into intuitive, compliant, and scalable product experiences.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Define and maintain the product vision and multi-quarter roadmap for cash and fund accounting capabilities (e.g., cash receipts, disbursements, bank reconciliation, fund balance tracking).
- Prioritize initiatives using data, customer insights, compliance requirements, and financial impact; manage trade-offs across scope, schedule, and quality.
Customer & Domain Discovery
- Partner with and conduct deep-dive discovery with CFOs, controllers, grant managers, treasurers, and fund administrators to capture end-to-end workflows (from cash transaction origination to fund reporting).
- Translate user pain points into clear problem statements, epics, and acceptance criteria
Execution & Delivery
- Write detailed requirements that reflect the solution to the root cause of the problem you are solving and partner with engineering and QA to refine
- Ensure features support internal controls (segregation of duties, approvals), audit trails, and compliant reporting
- Ensure documentation and training materials are accurate and accessible
- Equip Sales, CS, and Marketing with positioning, demos, and other go-to-market activities as required
- Define success metrics and drive adoption through feature instrumentation, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- CPA, CMA, or equivalent designation.
- Hands-on experience with cash accounting (cash receipts/disbursements, bank reconciliation, cash controls).
- Expertise in fund accounting for K‑12: fund structures, encumbrances, interfund transfers, grant compliance.
- Familiarity with GASB reporting and K‑12 audit cycles.
- Experience with financial systems or ERP modules (GL, AP/AR, Banking, Grants).
- Strong product management skills: roadmap planning, discovery, backlog management.
- Analytical and data fluency: able to define metrics, perform root-cause analysis,
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in school district finance or public sector accounting.
- Knowledge of student activity fund controls, grant drawdowns, and encumbrance workflows.
- Exposure to audit requirements and internal control frameworks.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation & Benefits
PowerSchool offers the following benefits:
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
- Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $114,900 - $187,700 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; specific geographic location; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.
EEO Commitment
EEO Commitment
PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accommodations@powerschool.com.
