Product Manager

Outschool; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Retirement plans

Health insurance

Hybrid & remote-friendly

Professional development budgets

Job summary

Outschool is hiring a Product Manager to shape products for millions of learners, families, and educators. You’ll work across consumer marketplace and ESA initiatives, partnering with engineering, design, data, marketing, and operations to identify opportunities and turn ideas into simple, impactful experiences.

The role spans learner, parent, educator, and marketplace experiences, with responsibility from discovery to iteration and a focus on measurable impact and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Professional product management experience across consumer marketplace products.
• Experience partnering with engineering, design, data, marketing, and operations.
• Ability to own end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to iteration.

Responsibilities

• Identify key near- and long-term product opportunities and translate into roadmaps.
• Own products end-to-end from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Develop deep understanding of customers and marketplace via research and data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into scalable solutions.
• Define success metrics, run experiments, and base decisions on insights.
• Build alignment around product vision and drive meaningful outcomes.
• Understand Outschool’s position and differentiate our products in the market.
• Foster a culture of customer empathy, experimentation, and measurable impact.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Lifecycle ownership

Analytical thinking

Data-driven decisions

Experimentation

Clear communication

Strategic thinking

Job description

The Company:

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1.5M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.

Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

The Role

As a Product Manager at Outschool, you’ll build products that shape how millions of learners, families, and educators experience education. You’ll tackle complex, high-impact problems across our consumer marketplace and our growing ESA (Education Savings Account) business, where we’re helping families use education funds to access high-quality learning opportunities.

You’ll work closely with engineering, design, data, marketing, operations, and other teams to identify the biggest opportunities, set product strategy, and turn ideas into simple, impactful experiences.

We’re hiring across levels - from early-career PMs through product leaders - and will scope the role based on your experience, strengths, and the problems where you can have the greatest impact.

Your work might span the learner, parent, educator, or marketplace experience, from helping families discover the right classes, to building tools that enable educators to thrive, to creating new experiences for ESA families and strengthening the systems that power our marketplace.

Core Responsibilities:

• Identify the most important near- and long-term product opportunities and translate them into clear strategies, roadmaps, and priorities.

• Own products end-to-end—from discovery and strategy through execution, launch, experimentation, and iteration.

• Develop a deep understanding of our customers and marketplace through research, data, and direct customer insight.

• Partner with engineering, design, data, and cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into elegant, scalable solutions.

• Define success metrics, design experiments, analyze results, and use quantitative and qualitative insights to drive decisions.

• Build alignment around product vision, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and keep teams moving toward meaningful outcomes.

• Understand Outschool’s strategic and competitive position and build products that differentiate us in the market.

• Help foster a product culture grounded in customer empathy, experimentation, learning, and measurable impact.

Desired Experience & Skills:

• Professional product management experience; level will be determined based on experience and scope.

• Experience working closely with engineering, design, data, and other cross-functional partners and having a track record of taking ownership, navigating ambiguity, and delivering meaningful outcomes.

• Experience owning the full product lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and defining strategy to launch and iteration.

• Strong product sense and the ability to identify the problems that matter most.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking, with the ability to use data to inform decisions and measure impact.

• Strong quantitative skills, including the ability to define experiments and analyze results

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clarity and alignment across teams.

• For more senior candidates, we’ll also look for experience setting product strategy, influencing across an organization, mentoring other PMs, and driving impact through complex, highly ambiguous problems.

Other Considerations:

• Experience in EdTech or building products for learners, educators, or families

• Familiarity with search, discovery, personalization, AI, tooling, data insights, and/or payment products

• Background in marketplace technologies

• Experience at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company

Compensation:

Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for equity and benefits. Additional details are provided during the interview process. For Canadian-based candidates, compensation range for this role is $100,000 - $229,500 CAD annually.

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

US Tiers

US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Seattle Metro

US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro

US Tier 3: All other cities and states

US Pay Zones

US Tier 1: $117,000 - $270,000

US Tier 2: $99,450 - $229,500

US Tier 3: $87,750 - $202,500

Benefits & Culture:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and retirement plans.

• Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.

• Wellness: Annual wellness stipend, access to coaching & therapy, and pet wellness plans.

• PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies.

• Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and an office in San Francisco. Bay Area-based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup and internet to stay connected no matter where you are.

• Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes.

• Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].

Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.

Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise.

Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all). If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.