Director, Product Strategy - Learning Hub

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Stride, Inc.

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education • curriculum development • virtual school • online education • online school

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2000

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Description

• The Director, Product Strategy is responsible for setting and driving a strategy to provide a seamless multi-product experience for Stride’s consumer and enterprise applications. • Collaborate closely with colleagues in IT/Engineering, User Experience, Research, Curriculum, and Go-to-Market teams to ensure a delightful end-to-end experience from discovery, activation, and retention for learners, educators, and families. • Success in this role requires a deep understanding of the education sector with a strong ability to center the voice of customer throughout the product lifecycle to quickly deliver and iterate on new offerings that add significant value to learners, educators, and the organization. • Drive the go-to-market teams to define, test, execute, and refine a product-led strategy for growth, adoption, and monetization that considers the enterprise and consumer contexts. • Owns the roadmap informed by in-depth customer discovery, competitive insights, and a strong grasp of the technical requirements. • Collaborate with partners in UX Research, UX Design, Curriculum, Marketing, and Engineering/IT to understand customer needs and translate them into jobs to be done. • Work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to adoption and take ownership of the outcome. • Lead the line of business through ideation, scoping and proof of concept to test product hypotheses and reduce product risk. • Lead the business through the creation of business cases for product investment with the objective being to get them approved by the Stride SVP Steering Committee. • Integrate existing and new Stride learning products into an intuitive and sticky multi-product experience for a growing audience of consumer and enterprise users including school districts and homeschool families. • Establish and scale best practices for Product Management and Continuous Product Discovery, including high quality frameworks for documentation and communication.

Requirements

• Ten (10) years of experience in Product Management and/or Product Leadership • Five (5) years of experience in Education Technology • Experience managing a multi-product or portfolio experience • Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities with a demonstrated track record of successful outcomes in situations where leading through influence was necessary • Experience with B2B and B2C product contexts • Knowledge of modern tech stack of cloud applications. • Extensive firsthand experience with design, development, and implementation of Tech products • A total cost of ownership mindset and understand product profitability and value • Laser focus on the customer • Demonstrated knowledge of budgeting, financial planning, and business operations. • Strong leadership and team building skills. • Ability to quickly drill down to solve problems and take ownership of the resolution. • Demonstrated ability to think strategically. • Ability to partner cross functionally to drive complex strategic projects • Excellent management skills with the ability to work to deadlines and successfully lead multiple initiatives. • Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio); Web proficiency. • Ability to travel 10% of the time • Ability to clear required background check