[Hiring] Product Manager @Clarity

Role Description

Product managers at Clarity report directly to the CEO, Brennan Stark, who runs the product team. As a product manager, you will be expected to become deeply familiar with the entire Clarity product. You will work on features that touch hundreds of thousands of families, billions of dollars in payments, and thousands of school partners.

This role is for someone who wants to get exceptionally good at building products by doing the work. Product managers at Clarity are expected to be excellent tactical executors. Over time, you’ll develop taste in our domain and a point of view on prioritization. Early on, your job is to learn, execute, and build trust through consistent delivery.

At its core, this is a building role. That includes:

• Doing research and discovery on ideas and potential projects.
• Making decisions with incomplete information and knowing when a fast decision with 70% confidence is better than waiting for 90%.
• Writing clear, thoughtful PRDs and building prototypes for projects we take on.
• Working closely with engineering and design to deliver projects end-to-end.
• Managing 3–4+ projects at a time, often at different stages.
• Leading testing in partnership with the product operations team.
• Owning follow-through by surfacing risks early, keeping work unblocked, and making sure things get finished.

Qualifications

• You think of yourself as a builder first and a product manager second.
• You thrive when context switching and enjoy creating order from chaos.
• You care more about building great products than managing processes.
• You are extremely reliable and take pride in execution.
• You are comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments with imperfect information.
• You have low ego and focus on creating value for others.
• You communicate clearly, both in writing and verbally.
• You enjoy talking to customers and learning directly from them.
• You work well with engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams.
• You pick up new domains quickly.
• You are ambitious, growth-oriented, and excited by high expectations.
• You actively use AI tools to work faster and better, and are excited to keep pushing how they can augment your work.

Requirements

• By 30 days:
  • You have a solid working understanding of the Clarity product and how schools and families use it.
  • You’ve built trust with engineering, design, and product operations through reliability and follow-through.
  • You’ve contributed meaningfully to at least one shipped or actively in development project.
  • You absorb context quickly and ask good questions.
• By 60 days:
  • You are independently driving multiple projects end-to-end.
  • Your PRDs are clear and actionable, with thoughtful tradeoffs.
  • You make good decisions quickly, even when information is incomplete.
  • You surface risks and dependencies before they turn into problems.
  • You’ve spoken directly with customers and incorporated feedback into shipped work.
• By 90 days:
  • You are confidently managing 3–4+ projects at once without things slipping.
  • Engineering and design trust you to run projects with minimal oversight.
  • You’ve shipped meaningful work with real impact for schools and families.
  • You’re developing strong instincts in Clarity’s domain and can articulate opinions on what should be built next.
  • You’re viewed as someone the team can rely on to get important things done.

Benefits

• You’ll work directly with the CEO on product execution and prioritization, with frequent feedback and a high bar for quality.
• You’ll have regular opportunities to work in person with the CEO and other team members, even though Clarity is remote-first.
• You’ll build products that matter to hundreds of thousands of people and see the impact of your work every week.
• You’ll learn how to drive real behavior change in a traditionally change-averse user base.
• You’ll be pushed hard and, if you succeed, will grow quickly.
• You’ll be paid very competitively, including a meaningful stock options grant.
• Clarity has strong product-market fit and industry-leading NPS.
• Clarity is uniquely positioned to change the landscape of education.
• We are fully remote, with team-specific and company-wide on-sites each year.

How to Apply

We don’t use traditional cover letters. If you’re interested in this role, please email Brennan ([email protected]) with a short note answering the following questions:

• Why do you think you would be unusually good at this specific role at Clarity?
• What about this role feels like a stretch for you?

A few guidelines:

• 300–600 words total
• Concrete examples are encouraged
• We value clarity and honesty over polish
• We read every email carefully. If it feels like a strong fit, we’ll follow up to schedule an initial conversation.