Senior Product Manager

Location: Redwood City, CA
Position Title: Senior Product Manager
Duration: Full Time

The Product Manager will own product requirements and execution of consumer facing features. The role will also include the management and execution of new and on-going projects. You will report directly to the VP of Marketing, and will be a key hire for the product and marketing team.

Responsibilities:

• Define the right feature set and product road map to drive user engagement
• Define product requirements for key features, working with our in-house web designers and UX team
• Work with engineering, business development and content teams to execute the product road map
• Define new products
• Assess market size and landscape for new products
• Perform new product cost benefit analysis and calculate ROI
• Define and drive the new product introduction process
• Define and enforce standards in product definition and NPI process
• Define and enforce project management standards and process
• Prioritize development investments across all departments
• Facilitate cross-department projects
• Research competition

Skills:

• Able to systematically assess market value of new product ideas
• Expert-level in defining and using web analytics
• Experience with both SEM and SEO best practices
• Consensus building skills
• Ability to engage and interact with technical teams
• Ability to engage and interact with editors, marketers and management teams
• Domain knowledge of online publishing business
• High comfort level to web technology
• Well versed in A/B testing and experimental design
• Can write concise product requirements and specifications
• Ability to work autonomously

Experience:

Five or more years of experience working as a Product Manager in the following areas:

• For-profit web companies
• Web-based content sites
• Experience and comfort using various social networking platforms and tools
• Managing both large and small scale projects

About Education.com:

Parents come to Education.com to get the information they need to support their children’s unique educational and developmental needs. Whether their kids are typical, have special needs, or are gifted, parents have quick and easy access to the answers they need and the support they want – plus activities and printables that help bring learning to life. From kindergarten readiness to college prep, Education.com is the leading destination for involved parents. Having launched the site in 2007, Education.com now welcomes more than 1.5 million parents each month.

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Have free access to thousands of articles. In addition to creating our own content, we’ve teamed up with the world’s leading universities, publishers, non-profits, research organizations, teachers, psychologists, and physicians to offer highly credible information on hundreds of topics that is current, well organized, and easy to understand.

• Can explore over a thousand hands-on activities or print hundreds of worksheets, games, and coloring pages – all sorted by grade level and topic – to help make learning at home more fun.
• Have the ability to share advice with Education.com’s community of thousands of parents and our panel of experts using our Q&A resource JustAsk.
• Can use our SchoolFinder tool to learn more about their current schools or research new ones.
• Have access to best-of-breed academic services including online math, reading, writing, and world language programs, educational CD’s, and educational games.

Our office is conveniently located directly across from the Redwood City CalTrain Station. 

Please submit a resume and a cover letter to jobs@education.com, Attn: Todd Schwartz.