About Kami
Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 50 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!
You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!
The Opportunity
The Product Manager is the enabler for Kami to deliver customer-loved features and functions! You will be a guru at identifying customer pain points, market opportunities, and using data to measure the success and performance of the product.
You’ll be a conduit for all cross-functional team members, facilitating the collaboration between product marketing, UXUI designers, engineers and other team members to enable successful product development and delivery.
This opportunity is based in our fully renovated Auckland office. We have a hybrid arrangement of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in office. Tuesdays and Thursdays are work from home.
What You’ll Do
Define and own the product strategy —
- Have a customer centric mindset, identifying customer pain points, emerging trends, and market opportunities to inform product direction.
- Translate requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and success metrics.
- Balance user needs, technical feasibility, and commercial goals.
- Ensure the product delivers meaningful value to users, differentiates in the market, and contributes to the company’s long-term strategy and success.
Own product delivery and execution —
- Frame the product strategy into delivery, and manage the delivery until the product is released
- Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it reflects that latest business needs and market conditions
- Own the delivery progress and navigate roadblocks and risks effectively to meet timeline milestones
Partner cross-functionally —
- Work closely with product marketing, UXUI designers, and engineers to define problems, scope solutions, and develop detailed requirements for new features and product improvements.
- Establish team delivery cadence and rituals, facilitating these as required
- Communicative effectively with stakeholders on product updates, milestones, and performance metrics
- Provide training and support to sales, marketing, and customer support teams.
Product launch and adoption —
- Plan and execute product launches in collaboration with marketing and sales teams.
- Develop go-to-market strategies and materials including support content.
- Monitor product performance and user feedback, implementing improvements as neede
What You’ll Bring
- Degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Business, Marketing or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager/Owner within a SaaS or edtech environment.
- Strong knowledge of UX, accessibility and driving B2C and B2B product growth
- Proven ability to deliver successful products with product management best practices.
- Customer-centric mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- High level of initiative and self-motivation, and fun to work with!
- Passion to use your talents in an impactful way and a passion for education
Why Kami?
We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have
- A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
- High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
- Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
- A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
- Happy customers: Helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.
- Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.
Skills Required
- Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Business, Marketing, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner within a SaaS or edtech environment
- Strong knowledge of UX and accessibility
- Experience driving B2C and B2B product growth
- Proven ability to deliver successful products using product management best practices
- Customer-centric mindset and passion for exceptional user experiences
- Strategic thinking and methodical execution
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- High initiative and self-motivation
- Passion for education and impactful work
What We Do
We come to work everyday to help foster a positive learning journey for everyone. Kami was developed in Aotearoa, New Zealand by four university friends who decided to make a difference. Ten years later, we’ve grown into a team of over 100 Kami-leons with a shared goal of supporting classroom heroes and leveling the playing field so that all students, no matter their age, grade, or ability, can love learning. We’re proud to have been named one of Time magazine’s most influential companies in 2022 and included in the Deloitte Fast 50 as the fastest growing company and fastest growing exporter in 2021. Our investors include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable things — we’re well on-track to proving it, too. Our company culture embraces diversity, compassion, transformation, and most importantly, fun! With these values, we're working to add a little magic to education so that teachers and students can achieve so much more together. We thrive in an encouraging environment where people can share ideas, generate solutions, and grow. Join us in building the future of education. Get in touch at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!
