The Role
About Kira Learning
We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. It is Kira Learning’s mission to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone.
Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.
About this Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Growth Product Manager to join the Kira team. This is an opportunity to become part of a small product team within a high-growth, high-impact AI company tackling the $32 billion education LMS space. This role will be responsible for leading product-led growth efforts, driving user acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention, while working on core platform features that support sustainable and scalable growth. The ideal candidate is data-driven, curious, and deeply user-focused. They are self-motivated, passionate about education and start-up life, and enthusiastic about leveraging experimentation and insights to unlock product growth. This person must be swift and nimble enough to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, and they must have impeccable written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Own the product-led growth strategy for Kira Learning, identifying opportunities to increase user acquisition, activation, and retention across the user journey
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to build growth loops and frictionless onboarding experiences
- Partner with engineering and design to experiment, ship, and iterate on features that help more users discover value from the product quickly
- Define and analyze key growth metrics and leverage data to inform product decisions and measure the impact of growth initiatives
- Work on foundational platform features (e.g. onboarding flows, usage incentives, in-product messaging) that enable scalable growth
- Conduct market research, user interviews, and A/B tests to deeply understand user behavior and identify opportunities for improvement
- Write clear, detailed product specifications and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery
- Stay informed on the latest trends in growth strategies, PLG tactics, and EdTech engagement patterns
Experiences & Skills
- 4 to 6 years of experience in product management, with at least 2 years focused on growth or product-led growth in a SaaS or consumer product
- Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to use data to drive decisions and growth experiments
- Demonstrated success leading growth initiatives that resulted in measurable increases in activation, engagement, or retention
- Experience with core platform product work that supports scalable growth
- Strong technical fluency and comfort working with engineering teams
- Experience working closely with design, marketing, and customer-facing teams
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; ability to articulate ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A growth mindset, bias toward action, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity and a rapidly changing environment
- Strong desire to work at an early-stage startup on a small team. Nimble, scrappy and adaptable. Can roll with the punches and thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment
- A positive, can-do attitude. You’re not deterred by minor setbacks and are able to swiftly overcome ambiguity
Background Check: Kira Learning will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: At Kira Learning, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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The Company
What We Do
Kira is harnessing transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible for everyone.
We are backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and the AI Fund and are growing fast
