Group Product Manager, Web Solutions Portfolio (Remote)

Nelnet; Omaha (NE); À distance; USD 115 000 - 165 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nelnet is seeking a Group Product Manager to lead a portfolio of NextGen education software. You will own one or more NextGen solutions end-to-end—running discovery, requirements, and release with engineering and design partners—while developing PMs on the team.

You will shape the strategy across the portfolio, drive a cohesive roadmap, and collaborate with sales, implementation, and client support to ensure successful launches that deliver value for institutions, administrators, students, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience with a strong track record of shipping products yourself, including 1+ years mentoring or directly managing other Product Managers.
• Experience partnering with go-to-market teams to launch complex SaaS or platform products.
• Track record of personally shipping AI-enabled or data-driven software products with measurable business impact.
• Proven ability to align and influence stakeholders across engineering, design, and commercial functions.

Responsabilités

• Personally own one or more NextGen solutions end to end—running discovery, writing requirements, making the prioritization calls, and partnering daily with engineering and design to ship.
• Stay close to the details: dig into the data, prototype and pressure-test ideas, review designs, and validate solutions with the financial aid, student employment, and campus administrators who rely on our products every day.
• Set the bar for product craft by example, modeling the discovery, writing, and decision-making you expect from the PMs you lead.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of Product Managers, setting clear expectations, helping each PM sharpen their craft, and helping recruit the talent that will join the team as it expands.
• Foster a high-agency, outcome-oriented culture—and the lightweight product practices to support it—where PMs operate with confidence in ambiguity and hold themselves accountable to measurable business results.
• Balance hands-on coaching with real autonomy—giving your PMs ownership of their areas while stepping in directly when a problem needs your attention.
• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap across the NextGen portfolio, translating business goals into a sequenced plan that delivers value to institutions and the students they serve.
• Identify opportunities to connect the portfolio—shared workflows, integrations, and data—so that NextGen solutions deliver more value together than they do on their own.
• Identify and build practical applications of AI across the portfolio, pushing for experiences that eliminate manual work for campus staff and simplify the journey for students, rather than ones that are only incrementally better.
• Keep a close eye on the higher education landscape—federal financial aid and student employment policy, competitive moves, and shifting institutional needs—and fold what you learn back into the roadmap.
• Partner with sales, marketing, implementation, and client support to plan and execute launches, making sure each release is market-ready, lands commercially, and is easy for institutions to adopt.
• Work closely with engineering on architecture and delivery cadence, managing trade-offs transparently to keep product quality, reliability, and timelines on track—especially around the time-sensitive cycles of the academic and financial aid year.
• Define success metrics across the portfolio—spanning adoption, retention, workflow completion, time saved for campus staff, and institutional satisfaction—and hold the team accountable to outcomes, not just outputs.
• Collaborate with compliance, security, and risk teams to ensure releases meet our SOC audit standards, FERPA, accessibility requirements, and applicable federal financial aid and student employment regulations.
• Annual compensation range for this role is $115,000 - $165,000 depending on experience.

Connaissances

Product management

Mentoring PMs

AI-enabled software

Stakeholder alignment

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Description du poste

Nelnet is seeking a Group Product Manager to lead a portfolio of NextGen education software. You will own one or more NextGen solutions end-to-end—running discovery, requirements, and release with engineering and design partners—while developing PMs on the team.

You will shape the strategy across the portfolio, drive a cohesive roadmap, and collaborate with sales, implementation, and client support to ensure successful launches that deliver value for institutions, administrators, students, and