K–12 ELA Product Strategy Advisor (MVP)

Type: Contract / Part-time (e.g., 5–15 hrs/week)
Duration: 6–12 weeks to start (extendable)
Location: Remote

You’ll help us shape an MVP for a US K–12 audience by translating deep industry knowledge into practical product decisions. Your focus is: what to build now, what to defer, and why—based on buyer needs, classroom realities, district constraints, and integration/compliance requirements.

• Define the MVP scope: must-have vs. nice-to-have vs. not-now.

• Produce a prioritized feature list with rationale and tradeoffs.

• Provide a lightweight competitive/alternative analysis (what schools already use; where switching costs are high).

• Create a simple plan to validate the MVP quickly:

  • Pilot design ideas (what success looks like in a classroom/district)

  • Metrics to track (activation, weekly active usage by role, teacher retention, outcome proxies)

• 7+ years in US K–12 EdTech product (product management, product strategy, or equivalent)

• Demonstrated ability to define MVP scope and make tradeoffs (not just ideation)

• Strong understanding of how US K–12 actually works:

  • Stakeholders: teachers, principals, curriculum, district IT, procurement

  • Adoption realities and classroom workflows

• Ability to communicate clearly with founders/engineering and turn insight into actionable decisions

• Background across different segments (elementary vs secondary, core instruction vs supplemental)

• Experience with district deployments, pilots, or procurement/RFP processes is a plus

• Weekly working sessions (3-5 hours) + async review of feedback

• Fast iteration: propose → critique → decide

• You’ll have direct access to the founder/product owner and engineering lead