[Hiring] Product Manager @Wayfinder

Role Description

At Wayfinder, we believe every student deserves to develop belonging, purpose, and future-ready skills. Our web platform supports students, educators, and school communities through durable skill development, college and career readiness, and MTSS. We're looking for a Product Manager to help us build it with clarity, care, and momentum.

• You’ll be the person who keeps our roadmap moving.
• Handle both product management and project management: shaping what we build and why, and managing the projects, tickets, and timelines that turn our plans into shipped features.
• Ensure product, engineering, and product marketing are working from the same picture.
• Dig deep to understand the problem by talking with educators, reviewing prototypes with stakeholders, and asking questions that surface edge cases and key insights early.
• This role is for someone who loves bringing people together around a shared plan, is comfortable in both technical conversations and classroom ones, and is excited about building AI-enabled products that make a real difference for students.
• Report to our VP of Product, and work closely with design, engineering, curriculum, and marketing.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects across the product roadmap, owning timelines and progress from planning through release.
• Facilitate sprint planning with engineering and design, keeping the backlog groomed and priorities clear for each cycle.
• Write and maintain clear specs, user stories, and tickets, including acceptance criteria, so engineering can build with confidence.
• Manage task creation and movement in Jira, keeping tickets organized, up to date, and moving through each stage of development.
• Partner closely with engineering to understand technical constraints, make smart tradeoffs, and keep work moving.
• Support QA and acceptance testing to confirm that what we ship matches the spec, and triage incoming bugs so the most important issues get fixed first.
• Coordinate and facilitate discovery alongside design: identify stakeholders, schedule review sessions, synthesize feedback, and help ensure we're building the right things in the right ways.
• Dig into the details of the problems we're solving, asking questions that uncover edge cases, dependencies, and unmet needs before they become surprises.
• Coordinate feature launches from start to finish, set release timing, collaborate on support materials and announcements, and ensure product marketing and enablement, and support resources are ready before anything goes live.
• Be the go-to source of product information for product marketing, enablement, and sales, answering questions, supporting RFP responses, and providing what teams need to communicate clearly with current and new partners.
• Help keep in-product language clear and educator-friendly, reviewing copy on new features and suggesting edits that follow our product language guidelines.
• Build consensus across teams, bringing different perspectives together and helping everyone align on priorities and decisions.
• Define success metrics for features, track product analytics, and use data to guide decisions and measure impact.
• Review incoming feedback from educators, partners, and internal teams throughout the year, and decide what to act on.
• Bring recommendations to roadmap planning based on what you're learning from feedback, data, and the market.
• Stay current on the PreK-12 edtech landscape, including competitors, trends, and what districts are asking for, and share what you learn with the team.
• Help shape and deliver AI-enabled features that make work easier for educators and learning more meaningful for students.
• Communicate roadmap status, changes, and decisions clearly and proactively to stakeholders across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, project management, or a closely related role on a software product.
• Experience working on PreK-12 edtech products, ideally in areas like durable skill development, college and career readiness, or MTSS.
• Strong technical understanding to work closely with engineers, discuss tradeoffs, and translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• A track record of managing complex projects, timelines, and backlogs, and of shipping on schedule.
• Experience with Jira or similar task management software.
• Strong skills in writing specs, user stories, and tickets that are clear, thorough, and easy to act on.
• Experience working directly with internal and external stakeholders to review prototypes, gather feedback, and turn it into clear decisions.
• Comfort with data: defining usage goals and success metrics, working with product analytics, and using evidence to make decisions.
• A talent for building consensus and keeping teams aligned, even when priorities compete.
• A habit of using AI tools to work faster and smarter.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a knack for explaining product details clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• A detail-oriented mindset and genuine curiosity about how people use products.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building or managing AI-enabled products or features.
• Familiarity with design thinking, user research, or usability testing.
• Experience working in a startup or other fast-moving environment.
• Experience working with product marketing or enablement teams on launches and messaging.
• An undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in a related field.

Benefits

• Competitive package based on location and experience.
• 403b: We care about your ability to save for your future.
• Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies + a monthly wellness stipend.
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations.
• Learning: Learning & Development Opportunities to grow your skills and career.
• Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
• Flexible culture: We are results-focused and entirely remote.
• And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work.