Who We Are
New Visions for Public Schools is an established 30 year partner to New York City public schools that has continuously worked alongside key leaders to improve K-12 student outcomes in New York City. Over the last decade, New Visions has been at the forefront of building digital products that empower school, agency and city leaders with shared, actionable data views, as well as robust planning and collaboration tools.
Our core product (Portal by New Visions) is a web-based enterprise application, used by educators, city agency staff, and community-based organizations to support students. The Portal consolidates essential student data from multiple cross-agency sources, surfacing key indicators related to student progress and making it easy to take action to plan for student success. Available to all NYC public schools, DHS shelters, and multiple other agencies, the Portal has had a real impact on student outcomes, especially for marginalized populations too often left behind due to gaps in our infrastructure for communication and collaboration.
Our mission is to fill a critical need to build a shared understanding and a common set of tools and processes among school, city and non-profit staff to enable them to better serve the students and families in their care.
The Role
We are looking for a Principal Product Manager of AI who will work closely with our mission-driven, welcoming team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and stakeholders to introduce generative AI features into the Portal with an eye toward accuracy, security and reliability. This is an exciting opportunity to have a far-reaching impact for an established and highly-engaged user base, and establish a product vision and stance on an emergent technology that will ultimately be used to improve student and post-secondary outcomes in NYC and beyond.
As Principal Product Manager, you will join the product team with a high level of established expertise, helping evangelize and establish best practices across the organization. You will partner with our engineering, design and data teams to build best-in-class products, thinking through strategy and approach from idea through rollout and scaling.
What You’ll Do
- Deeply understand our programmatic work and how emergent AI technology can be applied to it; identify user and business problems and opportunities across a wide range of inputs
- Fully own and implement the AI product strategy and roadmap that clearly prioritizes the highest impact work, and align senior stakeholders and cross-agency city leaders around that vision
- Manage competing priorities with consistency and transparency, collaborating with teams throughout the organization to ensure feature adoption and success
- Partner with our design team to conduct user research to surface and distill complex user needs into tangible problems to solve; define and frame those problems for the team
- Collaborate with designers, data analysts, and engineers in solution discovery, testing and validating assumptions through constant iteration
- Manage the entire software development life cycle from idea through product marketing and post-launch strategy, using Agile software development methodologies
- Exemplify and champion best product practices across the organization
Who You Are
- You have brought multiple high-usage 0-1 products to market, iterated on existing features, and have demonstrated success in scaling a product for usage and revenue growth
- You have experience and expertise in the emergent LLM space, and have launched LLM-enabled features or products
- You are able to consult at all organizational levels on considerations for an emergent AI strategy and approach, with a sensitivity and bias for data security, privacy and trust
- You communicate and problem-solve collaboratively in a positive and ego-free environment, and are expert at facilitating conversations to accomplish your product goals across all organizational levels and in cross-agency contexts
- You love working with data, and are passionate about data accuracy, security and stability
- You are excited about our mission, and the prospect of solving problems that are challenging and affect urban schools everywhere
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, education; or training in a technology or business related field
- 7+ years of experience in product management with a track record of building and scaling high-usage products
- Agile product management experience, including knowledge of one or more methodologies (particularly SCRUM or Kanban)
Disclaimer:
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. These statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of a person in this position.
Additional Information:
NYC-based headquarters. Remote options available, ideally working from locations in Eastern Standard Time. Additional details will be shared if selected for an interview
Salary Information
While the majority of new hires’ starting salaries shall be expected to be placed in the first half of the range(s) to allow space to grow in the job, for those who already have significant relevant experience at that level of the job, placement at the higher end of the range(s) is possible.
Pay Range
$135,783—$224,041 USD
Who We Are
For over three decades, New Visions for Public Schools has played a central role in improving the quality of New York City public schools and removing barriers to the success of low-income students and students of color.
New Visions focuses on providing educators with the tools, resources, and support to build and continuously improve strong and responsive systems. These include major investments in student planning tools, free and high-quality curriculum, and innovative career & college preparatory programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of New Visions that all employees and applicants for employment will be treated in all respects on the basis of their merit and qualifications and without regards to their race, color, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, gender, military status, marital status, ancestry, or any other reason prohibited by law.
New Visions believes that our teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all employees. We also recognize that perspectives from communities that have been historically marginalized are critical to the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from individuals living in the communities that we serve or who are members of historically marginalized communities.
New Visions provides a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package in addition to the opportunity to make a significant impact on education reform and in the lives of urban youth.
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What We Do
At New Visions for Public Schools, we work to make great public schools common in New York City. We believe that all of New York City’s students deserve public schools that make successful futures possible, especially Black, Latinx, and low-income students who have historically had inequitable access to a great public education. Since 1989, New Visions has been a driving force behind some of the most significant reforms to public education in New York City. Today, our diverse team of professionals develop and scale innovative tools and approaches that help educators address common challenges.
We operate ten public charter schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and, as a trusted partner of the NYC DOE, we help almost 2,000 public district schools plan for the success of over 1,000,000 students citywide!
Why Work With Us
You’ll be challenged constantly but will always have an amazing team to back you up and push you to succeed. You get to work with thought leaders and innovators in the education section. And you’ll be contributing to changing the landscape of public education in NYC. Plus, we have great medical benefits and fun work perks! Join New Visions today!
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