Lead Product Manager

March 7

🌾 Iowa – Remote

Although this job is listed in Iowa, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $150k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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ACT is a leading organization focused on education and assessment, providing a range of testing and educational services designed to aid students and educators. Known primarily for its college admissions test, the ACT offers resources and tools that help students navigate their educational and career journeys. The organization also supports K-12 educators, higher education institutions, and workforce readiness initiatives, emphasizing fairness and accessibility in education.

College and Career Readiness • Workforce Readiness • Research • Education

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1959

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $30k Grant on 2022-01

📋 Description

• Serve as the leader for your product - driving its vision, strategy, roadmap, development, activation, and success. • Engage with internal and external stakeholders, customers, and influencers to explore, identify, and assess their needs, opportunities, and problems to solve that will provide them with maximum value and positive impact. • Collaborate across the enterprise to develop and evaluate business plans for your product that align to strategic goals and investment priorities, to market demands and opportunities, and to technical and financial resources. • Stay ahead of industry trends and leverage emerging technologies for competitive advantage. • Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and execute feature and functionality ideas, growth experiments, and long-term strategic plans. • Collaboratively lead dedicated cross-functional matrixed teams to prepare and implement initiatives, features, and requirements from the product’s strategic roadmap to enter the active development and release cycle. • Build relationships and trust through clear communication and alignment across internal and external teams and stakeholders to inform and deliver on product roadmaps. • Collaborate with marketing, sales, and relationship management teams on the creation and execution of successful market development and go-to-market plans for new features, iterations, and products. • Develop and deliver internal and external product presentations and demos. • Partner closely with other product managers to coordinate on building and rolling out functionality across multiple platforms and markets. • Build the company public profile through networking, conferences, and speaking engagements. • Provide strategic updates and proposals upwards through the product operating model to senior leadership. • Mentor and coach other product managers on the product team to collaborate and deliver on enterprise goals.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of progressively responsible product management experience with proven track record of leading and launching products at scale. • Experience executing within software and/or technology product development life cycles. • Experience in education or the education technology industry. • Demonstrated success leading teams, setting product design standards, and facilitating collaboration across cross-functional teams. • Ability to balance business, user, and technical needs to create effective roadmaps and prioritize product improvements. • Experience working with internal and external senior leadership and with board level reporting. • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to effectively articulate ideas and build consensus within the teams to ensure alignment, and influence stakeholders at all levels. • Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to think strategically, and lead and work effectively in cross-functional teams and drive consensus in decision-making. • Strong analytical mindset and problem solving skills, with ability to use data and user feedback to refine product direction and drive continuous improvement. • Adept at balancing long-term vision with short-term execution and effectively manage timelines, priorities, and resources to deliver successful outcomes. • Manages change and navigates positively in an environment experiencing change at a fast pace.