Associate Product Manager

About Amplify

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents. For more information, visit Amplify.com.

Job Description:

As an Associate Product Manager (Curriculum), you will be the glue between our instructional vision and the physical/digital products that reach students and teachers. You manage the lifecycle of educational content and oversee the day to day production of science units. You will work closely with writers, editors, learning scientists, interaction developers, and designers to ensure our lessons are engaging, pedagogically sound, and delivered on time; whether they are heading to a printing press or a digital platform.

Responsibilities:

• Own unit production - serve as the product throughline for science unit creation.

• Be the expert in your area - know the market, use case, and capabilities of your product and use those considerations for development.

• Gain market intelligence - research and communicate competitive landscapes, identifying new opportunities and emerging trends.

• Cross-functional leadership - inspire your cross-functional unit team of writers, designers, interaction developers, and others to rally behind a shared vision, understand the business context, and execute against unit production goals. Ensure content being written is compatible with existing software features and advocate for new features when necessary.

• Own the requirements - write clear, concise product briefs that meet user needs and business objectives. Ensure your team understands context, problem to solve, and what success looks like, delivering on deadlines.

• Own the prioritized backlog - manage trade-offs between speed, quality, scope, and feedback so the backlog reflects the most valuable work for your team. Conduct sprint planning and backlog grooming with your team.

• Be the team athlete - act as the "utility player" for your team, focused on unblocking your cross-functional teams and supporting designers in completing deliverables,

• Investigating a reported product concern, triaging an issue, and doing whatever else it takes to deliver your features successfully.

• Understand success metrics - learn how your team measures success. Track and report on feature-level metrics, and develop fluency in how your work contributes to product and business outcomes.

• Deliver requirements-aligned features - develop units, document release notes, communicate with internal stakeholders about feature delivery, and support external communications.

• Embrace AI - learn about AI capabilities. Partner with AI experts and engineers to explore how AI can improve the ways we work and support feature development.

• Continuously improve - collaborate with your team in retros, supporting continuous improvement for both how we work and what we build

How you work…

• You have a learning mindset and child-like curiosity - approaching situations with a fresh perspective rather than accepting "the way things have always been done."

• You communicate with empathy - explaining complex technical concepts to a non-technical person in a way that makes sense.

• You have an entrepreneurial spirit - seeing problems and fixing them without being asked

• You have an analytical mindset - you can look at varying spreadsheets and documentation to see patterns, trends, and contradictions

• You like to learn and try new things - including learning more about AI and ways it could making classroom time more engaging and help teachers be even more effective

• You are not afraid of ambiguity - fearlessly tackling the unknown (brand new areas and challenges)

• You make decisions - prioritizing work for your team and yourself based on value delivered and effort required

• You lead with trust and influence - not relying on direct authority to get work done

• You have a genuine passion for educational equity - believing that technology should empower teachers, not replace them, and that all students deserve access to high quality education and outcomes

Basic Qualifications:

• 0-3 years of experience, with an undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience in an EdTech-adjacent role (e.g., teaching, customer success, product marketing)

• A high degree of empathy for teachers and students

• An keen eye for building delightful experiences

• Great communication and problem-solving skills

• Proven leadership experience

• Evidence of leading projects and influencing others without direct authority

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.

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