Senior Product Manager, Student Success

Panorama Education • Boston, Massachusetts, United States • 1m ago

About the Role:

As Senior Product Manager, you will lead our Student Success product line, which empowers educators to continuously assess, diagnose, and take action using whole child data to improve student outcomes. You will own the product line’s vision and roadmap, and be accountable to delivering both exceptional customer and business impact, aligned to Panorama’s strategic goals. In close collaboration with cross-functional teams (e.g. Revenue, Client Experience), you’ll spearhead strategic initiatives that maximize product line performance, and ensure optimal prioritization and tight focus for your team. In this highly analytical and technical role, you’ll live and breathe data every day. You will become an expert in the data the platform uses for our insight-to-action tools, and define and act on meaningful KPIs to ensure strong outcomes. This role reports to the Senior Director of Product and is pivotal in supporting Panorama’s growth and delivering measurable outcomes for educators and students alike.

Responsibilities:

Product Vision & Roadmapping: Shape a compelling vision and roadmap for Student Success, in partnership with Product Leadership, that best serves overall product and business strategies and maximizes your team’s resources
Business Outcome ownership: Own cross-functional strategic initiatives within the product area, identifying and executing on product line learnings and levers beyond the roadmap to expand business and customer impact
Cross-Product, Platform Approach: Take a holistic approach, in collaboration with other Product Managers, to identify and support cross-product line opportunities, with a focus on platform scalability and extensibility (a 1+1=3 approach)
Impactful Product Execution: Lead your team to effectively execute on the vision and roadmap, ensuring continuous delivery of customer value through a lean development approach. Ruthlessly prioritize for strong focus and reliable delivery from your squad
Client Engagement & Complex Problem Solving: Unpack, prioritize, and solve client-specific escalations and needs, delivering results that balance immediate value for strategic partners with long-term objectives
Deep Reporting & Analytics Expertise: Leverage your reporting expertise to enhance our in-platform reporting suite, bring our insight-to-action promise to life for end users Deeply understand the key user needs and questions educators ask of data, to develop the most actionable insights that support data-driven decision-making cycles in schools
Exceptional Cross-Functional Collaboration: Continuously partner with Engineering, Design, Applied Research & Data Science, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and others in Product to execute and iterate on the roadmap. Facilitate alignment and clear communication across stakeholders, ensuring product health and growth
Strong Fluency with Data and KPIs: Set, track, and evaluate the most meaningful product line KPIs to ensure your team is delivering intended outcomes. Lead by example, regularly using data to evaluate feature success and inform iterations and make tough prioritization decisions

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

Over 5 years of product management experience, ideally with a focus on data, reporting, or analytic products
A proven track record in leading strategic product initiatives and delivering successful outcomes for a product line, with an emphasis on driving KPI-focused growth
A strong foundation in talking to customers and gathering insights, with the ability to understand, empathize with, and communicate user needs to your team. You manage escalations effectively and turn client-specific needs into actionable strategies
Experience in edtech and/or education (a plus) and a solid grasp of diverse client needs in educational settings, understanding the nuances between technical and adaptive challenges
A self-starter with exceptional skills in tackling complex problems and turning ambiguity into actionable solutions. You drive cross-team execution autonomously while proactively sharing updates, surfacing risks, and communicating key decisions effectively
A collaborative spirit, excelling at cross-functional work with teams in Engineering, Research, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and Design, and adept at fostering teamwork and achieving shared goals
A deep analytical mindset and reporting expertise, leveraging data to make strategic product decisions
Strong communication skills, with a history of effectively engaging stakeholders and articulating product priorities, particularly in complex or nuanced areas
Experience in managing or mentoring other Product Managers, with a desire for future people management responsibilities as part of your growth trajectory