[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Playlab

Role Description

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape how educators and students build with AI.

Your product work will:

• Expand what's possible: Add new capabilities (e.g., components, agents) that expand how creators craft AI native software for their contexts.
• Deepen the context: Build on our current work on curriculum knowledge graphs and organizational knowledge bases to deepen how creators can leverage their context.
• Set the safety standard: Push the boundaries on what responsible and safe AI in education looks like. This includes advancing our moderation and safety systems; supporting learnability, legibility, and interpretability within the product; collaborating with key ecosystem partners; and open sourcing as much of this work as we can to advance the ecosystem.

You'll work directly with our CTO, engineering team, ML team, designers, and partnerships team. You'll hear directly from educators through our deep partner relationships. And you'll make product decisions that affect how educators and learners across the globe experience AI in education.

This role requires comfort with ambiguity. Playlab is an early-stage product with significant scope, a growing team, and limited existing product process. You'll need to build that process as you go and not wait for someone to hand it to you. If you need a lot of structure to do your best work, this isn't the right fit. If you thrive when you can shape the environment around you, read on.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, including at least one early-stage or high-growth environment where you had to build process, not just follow it.
• Experience leading product development for AI-powered or technically complex products.
• Ability to communicate crisply and explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passion for education, equity, or mission-driven work.

Requirements

• Drive Product Execution: Prioritize ruthlessly, write clear specs, and work with design, engineering, and learning teams to ship.
• De-risk builds by breaking work into meaningful increments that let us learn as we go.
• Make tradeoffs when scope, timeline, and resources collide and communicate those tradeoffs clearly.
• Go Deep on the Details: Write detailed requirements that align design, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
• Understand the technical constraints and possibilities, and work side-by-side with engineering.
• Engage directly with users, and gather user feedback, usage data, and partner insights to inform decisions.
• Build Product Process: Establish rituals, artifacts, and communication patterns that help a growing team stay aligned.
• Create clarity about how product decisions get made, without slowing the team down.
• Document what's working so others can build on it.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with Learning and Partnerships to translate field feedback into clear priorities and simpler designs.
• Coordinate with design to ensure what we build is usable, not just functional.
• Refine Strategy as You Learn: Pressure-test strategic assumptions against what you see in the product and hear from users.
• Surface when priorities should shift, and make the case with evidence.
• Help leadership make better decisions by bringing clarity to ambiguous situations.

Benefits

• Build the Product Function: You'll be Playlab's first PM and will get the chance to shape how product management works here.
• Meaningful Scope: You'll own strategic pillars that directly affect whether educators can build AI tools that transform their classrooms.
• Mission-Aligned Team: Join a small, passionate group committed to equity, creativity, and joyful learning.
• Direct User Connection: Playlab's deep partnerships mean you'll hear directly from educators.
• Flexible Work: Remote-first environment with autonomy and a strong culture of collaboration. Occasional travel for partner meetings and team gatherings.
• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Includes salary, healthcare, retirement, generous time off, and opportunities for professional growth.