A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves over eleven million students in all 50 states.
We're seeking a hard-working Product Manager to join our burgeoning Interoperability team, ready to build our innovative educational products, ensure they work exceptionally well in classrooms, and be a champion for Amplify's interoperability initiatives both within Amplify and more broadly in the educational space. Our product managers partner with engineering, design, curriculum, marketing, and implementation to align our vision and execute against the roadmap. The ideal candidate is passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students, and administrators and is excited to lead cross-functional agile teams.
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Responsibilities of the Product Manager:
Be an agile team leader.

• Motivate and empower your team to prioritize the highest impact work.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, scrum, etc.) and track completed work.
• Prioritize your backlog, translate features into user stories, and elaborate on those stories for your agile team.

Communicate across the organization.

• Proactively connect with key partners and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product vision and execution.
• Track progress toward successful delivery. Raise issues, risks, and dependencies, and collaborate to resolve them.
• Deeply understand your product's features, content, user experience, and relationship to the broader product ecosystem, so you can effectively communicate about your component with a broad range of team members.
• Draft release notes, announcements, and training materials to support the launch of new features and products.

Develop exceptional products.

• Empathize with our customers' and users' needs as a passionate advocate for customer perspectives through all phases of product development.
• Conduct user testing interviews to identify problems and validate improvements.
• Research the competitive product landscape and education market.
• Synthesize data, observations, and other research into insights to help advise product strategy.

Represent Amplify in the Edtech space

• Work with Amplify stakeholders to aggregate and document Amplify interoperability needs and strategies.
• Research commonly used ed tech standards and their use across the popular market.
• Attend IMS Global meetings to represent Amplify and advocate for improvements to existing standards.

Basic Qualifications of the Product Manager:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• Organizational skills attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Strong project management skills

Preferred Qualifications of the Product Manager:

• Experience as an educator
• Background in technology, design, user research, curriculum development

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.