About The Princeton Review: The Princeton Review/Tutor.com is a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admission services company. Every year, it helps millions of college- and graduate school–bound students achieve their education and career goals through online and in-person courses delivered by a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources, and its more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House. The company’s Tutor.com brand is one of the largest online tutoring services in the U.S. It comprises a community of thousands of tutors who have delivered more than 27 million one-to-one tutoring sessions. The Princeton Review is headquartered in New York, NY. Follow the company on LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.
Summary
The Princeton Review (TPR) is seeking Directors of Product Strategy to set the vision and strategy for two product areas:
- Director of Product Strategy, Pre-Health
- Director of Product Strategy, Pre-College
Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, each Director will be responsible for determining the overall direction of a product suite, serving our customers’ needs and business outcomes in line with our mission to support learners in gaining access to their next opportunity in life. Each Director will play a pivotal role in leading The Princeton Review through its critical next phase of product growth and transformation.
Responsibilities
- Product vision and strategy: Develop and continuously refine the vision and strategy for a portfolio of related products, ensuring alignment with TPR's goals, market dynamics, customer expectations, and technological innovation in the space.
- Understanding and championing customer needs: Through continuous, extensive direct customer engagement as well as collaboration with frontline teams at TPR, develop an evidence-based perspective on customer pain points and use cases that directly informs the core of our strategy.
- Developing innovative solutions: Translate strategy into a clear, compelling roadmap of projects that address customer problems. Support multiple agile technology teams in successfully translating prioritized needs into an executable set of solutions to build agiley, in a way that leverages our existing platform capabilities but that also push us to innovate further, leveraging artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
- Aligned Content strategy: Collaborate with our content development team to incorporate content improvements and additions, as well as improvements in content delivery, into our holistic product roadmap in order to increase customers’ engagement with, and value gained from, our rich content.
- Go-to-market leadership: Partner with other teams to build launch strategies for offerings, helping to communicate solutions via a compelling story for our customers, setting pricing and packaging, and planning rollout
- Stakeholder communication and engagement: Engage team members in other functions and Panorama’s senior leadership, continually sharing our strategy and progress and taking in feedback that helps improve our plans. Serve as an effective evangelist for our product strategy and roadmap.
- Product management functional growth; As a key leader within our Product Management team, play a central role in advancing our product management processes, systems, and way of teaming, partnering withing the rest of the product team and with peers to develop systems for improving the flow of customer and market insights, smoothing our GTM motion, roadmapping, and analyzing product outcomes, and aligning various strategies to one another and an overall platform strategy.
- Thought leadership: Establish yourself as an expert in educational technology and the college or graduate application and preparation market, as well as our customers’ needs. Represent The Princeton Review at industry events, elevating our reputation as a leader and innovator.
Education, Background, Experience & Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, or similar, ideally with experience in B2C
- Strategic thinking and analysis: Demonstrated ability to use both qualitative and quantitative data to develop sound strategy and drive innovation. MBA or equivalent experience is preferred.
- Innovation and AI: Proven ability to drive innovation in product development: Experience staying on top of market trends and designing and executing experiments to test innovative solutions; in particular, experience with launching AI features and products
- Content-centered product experience: Experience working with and developing products that have a strong content component, and partnering with content development teams.
- Education expertise: Understanding of the education landscape, including market trends, opportunities, and challenges, with a specific focus on the needs of learners and students
- Success at launching products: Demonstrated success in bringing ideas from concept to execution, and launching commercially viable products.
- Collaboration and teaming: Experienced in guiding multidisciplinary teams by promoting collective achievement, nurturing leadership qualities within the team, and building cooperative relationships across the organization. Adept at influencing others to drive progress without relying solely on formal authority.
- Exceptional communication skills: Excellent communicator, in writing and verbally, capable of delivering high-impact presentations to a wide range of stakeholders, including team members, senior executives, and board members.”
Salary: $130,000 - $150,000 per year, based on a 40 hour work week.
The Company also provides eligible employees with a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, 401k plan with company match, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
Please note that the above-referenced position can be performed anywhere in the United States except in the following states: Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The Princeton Review is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Princeton Review’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. The Princeton Review also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also The Princeton Review’s policy to comply with all applicable laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.
The Princeton Review is a drug free workplace.
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