At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.
Team OverviewOur Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.
Job Purpose
The Senior Director of Product Management is responsible for guiding the overall roadmap for the Product portfolio of PowerSchool. The Senior Director is responsible to leading and managing the business analysis, roadmap development and guiding all product activities for the Product portfolio.
ResponsibilitiesDescriptionThe Product Management team is critical in full lifecycle product planning, delivery, and marketing with the end user in mind.
Your day-to-day job will consist of:
- Lead the development and implementation of the roadmap.
- Manage a team of product management professionals.
- Assess needs and opportunities for products through research and feasibility analysis.
- Manage, gather, and analyze competitive intelligence data for product lines.
- Participate in product modification, support cost reduction, margin analysis, forecasting, product positioning and pricing strategies.
- Ensure roadmap plans are aligned with portfolio vision, business objectives, market needs, and competitive environment.
- Senior product expert positioned as a key resource with Clients, prospects and partners.
- Work with Sales and Project Management to gather/document business requirements.
- Lead the writing and curation of clear, detailed business requirements for product and project initiatives.
- Work effectively within and across data operations and engineering teams to execute projects and roadmap items.
- Assist in creating go to market strategies.
- Stay abreast of changing industry regulations affecting product development.
- Minimum of 12+ years of relevant and related work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Travel occasionally, up to 15-20%, for key moments such as team summits, training, customer meetings, company events, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands.
- This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed.
- Experience managing and leading teams and managers.
- Specialized knowledge
- Minimum 5-8 years of management of other professionals (performance reviews/evaluations)
- Minimum 5-7 year of product management experience with progressive growth in management and leadership responsibility
- Understanding of K12 District needs for the classroom
- Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills
- Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle models
- Skills
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Exhibit intelligent decisiveness
- Manage multiple projects/products simultaneously
- Excellent customer-facing skills
- Abilities
- Manage and lead others effectively, growing the skill set and capabilities of the team holistically and for each individual contributor
- Able to coach others
- Able to cope with strict time management requirements
- Able to work cohesively with a team and show leadership through influence, not power
- Follow and complete directives in a timely manner
- Excellent ability to listen for both what is and is not being said - seek to understand before being understood
- Able to operate within a structured environment, but willing to foresee and/or solve problems when they arise
PowerSchool offers the following benefits:
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
- Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $144,900 - $241,100 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.
EEO Commitment EEO CommitmentPowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing [email protected].
Skills Required
- Minimum 12 years of relevant and related work experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
- Ability to travel occasionally, up to 15–20%
- Availability to work outside normal business hours under on-call policies
- Experience managing and leading teams and managers
- 5–8 years managing other professionals, including performance reviews and evaluations
- 5–7 years of product management experience with progressive management and leadership responsibility
- Understanding of K–12 district classroom needs
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Understanding of software development lifecycle models
- Strong leadership, management, organizational, customer-facing, and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects or products simultaneously
- Ability to coach and develop team members
Powerschool Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Powerschool and has not been reviewed or approved by Powerschool.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with an HSA option and company HSA match, plus life insurance and short/long‑term disability. Wellness resources such as an Employee Assistance Program and ClassPass are also part of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is offered and highlighted across company materials and job postings. Vesting on the match is described as not immediate.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Discretionary Time Off (unlimited PTO) for many U.S. roles and paid holidays are emphasized, with recent postings confirming the DTO approach. Paid parental leave is also cited in company materials.
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What We Do
PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to empower educators, administrators, and families to ensure personalized education for every student journey. PowerSchool offers end-to-end product clouds that connect the central office to the classroom to the home with award-winning products including Schoology Learning and Naviance CCLR, so school districts can securely manage student data, enrollment, attendance, grades, instruction, assessments, human resources, talent, professional development, special education, data analytics and insights, communications, and college and career readiness. PowerSchool supports over 60 million students in more than 90 countries and over 18,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States.
