New Visions for Public Schools is a long-standing partner to New York City public schools, with over three decades dedicated to continuously improving the quality of K-12 education. We believe in the transformative power of public schools, and work alongside key leaders to address the complex challenges NYC students and families face.
As a Senior Product Manager at New Visions, you'll drive the development of innovative tools and features that empower public schools, especially as we've significantly expanded our digital footprint over the last five years. Our core product, the Webby Anthem Award-winning Portal by New Visions, is a web-based, enterprise school management application that consolidates essential student data into a modern, intuitive interface, surfacing key indicators related to student progress. It highlights critical areas where attention is needed on the student level, and contextualizes that information across an entire school or network, supporting improved student outcomes in attendance, graduation, and postsecondary planning.
The RoleWe're looking for a talented Senior Product Manager to join our mission-driven team. This is an amazing opportunity to profoundly impact a long-established industry in service of helping students thrive in school and career. You will work closely with a passionate, welcoming group of engineers, designers, and data scientists, collaborating with stakeholders across multiple organizations to define our postsecondary strategy and elevate postsecondary features. Your work will be crucial in establishing the Portal as a key operational tool for New York City public schools, universities and beyond. In this role, you'll also help evangelize product-driven best practices across the organization and solve complex problems for our scaling enterprise application.
Who You AreYou're an accomplished Product Manager with a proven track record of successful product launches that delivered meaningful impact. Your expertise spans the entire product lifecycle:
- You have defined and managed multi-project roadmaps, skillfully balancing competing demands.
- You've led end-to-end projects, adeptly translating vague ideas into intuitive, scalable, and delightful products.
- You are deeply user-oriented, with extensive experience in user research and discovery best practices.
- You are meticulous, recognizing how the smallest details can have a significant impact, yet always capable of stepping back to see the big picture.
- You're a natural leader who influences without direct authority and fosters well-running teams.
Above all, you are passionate about public service and the prospect of solving challenging problems that significantly impact urban schools, students, and families.
What You'll DoIn this pivotal role, you will deeply own and implement the product strategy for the postsecondary space, focusing on features and critical relationships with CUNY and the NYC Public Schools (NYCPS) postsecondary team. You'll gain a profound understanding of our programmatic work with schools and partners, identifying key problems and opportunities. Your leadership will be crucial in aligning senior stakeholders across multiple organizations around a clear vision that prioritizes the highest impact work.
You'll work hand-in-hand with designers, data analysts, and engineers in solution discovery, constantly iterating and validating assumptions. You'll own the entire software development lifecycle, utilizing agile methodologies, and play a vital role in evangelizing a product-driven process within our established organization as we scale our digital offering.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of product management experience at technology-driven organizations, demonstrating a clear history of impactful launches and roadmap management
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, education, or training in a technology or business-related field.
- Agile product management expertise
- Proficiency with one or more tools for managing software delivery, roadmapping, whiteboarding, and data analytics (e.g. Jira, Miro, Airtable, Google Sheets, Mixpanel)
- Great product managers come from diverse backgrounds, and New Visions is open-minded to relevant experience and education.
- Knowledge of the NYC public school system and educator pain points and needs
- Prior work in the non-profit, education or other public sectors
Employees receive 100% coverage of comprehensive medical and dental premiums with a considerable cost-share for dependants. New Visions also invests in employee’s future by providing a generous 8% contribution to employee’s 403(b) retirement account after only one year of service and employees benefit from a generous PTO plan that starts at 4 weeks along with 12 annual holidays. Additional benefits include (eligibility requirements vary) gym reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, employee referral awards, back-up childcare, corporate discount programs, and much more!
Hybrid work at our offices in New York City is strongly preferred. New Visions for Public Schools is an established 30 year partner to New York City public schools, who has continuously worked alongside key leaders to improve the quality of K-12 education in New York City.
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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.
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.
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 believes that our teams are most effective when they include representation from the diverse communities we serve as their perspectives are critical to work we do. Further, we believe that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all employees. At NV, Diversity, equity and inclusion doesn't determine who gets hired - that is based on qualifications. It just helps make sure the door is open wide enough so that people who have traditionally had less access to opportunities get the chance to be considered and, if chosen, feel comfortable and supported once they are part of our team.
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 team of professionals develop and scale innovative tools and approaches that help educators address common challenges. 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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