Product Manager

Time for Phonics; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Job summary

Discovery Education is seeking a thoughtful and collaborative Product Manager to support the strategy and execution of our Career Connect and Discovery Education's emerging careers product portfolio. This role will help students build career awareness, exploration, and readiness through engaging digital experiences that connect classroom learning to future opportunities.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this individual contributor role will translate product strategy into

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience in digital products.
• Experience contributing to 0-to-1 product development and launches.
• Experience with AI-enabled products or emerging educational technologies preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; strong preference for K-8 education market experience.

Responsibilities

• Support product strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes for Career Connect and emerging careers portfolio.
• Translate customer needs into scalable product initiatives and measurable outcomes.
• Lead backlog prioritization and collaboration with engineering and design teams.
• Define success metrics and monitor adoption, engagement, and business impact.
• Partner with curriculum, research, and implementation teams to ensure market readiness.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

SAFe Agile

Job description

Discovery Education is seeking a thoughtful and collaborative Product Manager to support the strategy and execution of our Discovery Careers portfolio, including Career Connect and a new Careers product. This role will help students build career awareness, exploration, and readiness through engaging digital experiences that connect classroom learning to future opportunities.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this individual contributor role will translate product strategy into actionable roadmaps and delivery plans for career-focused offerings while partnering closely with engineering, design, curriculum, research, implementation, sales, marketing, and external partners. The ideal candidate brings hands‑on product management experience, experience supporting product launches, and an interest in AI-powered experiences and emerging technologies that can accelerate customer value and business growth.

As a Product Manager, you will help drive product outcomes, lead customer discovery for assigned work, identify opportunities to improve the experience, and translate customer needs into scalable solutions that support Discovery Education's mission of preparing learners for tomorrow.

In This Role You Will:

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Support the product strategy, roadmap, and desired outcomes for Career Connect and Discovery Education's emerging careers product portfolio.
• Partner with product leadership to prioritize opportunities and make tradeoffs that balance customer impact, technical feasibility, and business value.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and cross‑functional teams to support successful product delivery and adoption.
• Evaluate existing product architecture, content structures, and user experiences to identify opportunities for improvement, efficiency, and growth.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned to priorities, customer needs, technical constraints, and business objectives.
• Translate strategic goals into clearly defined product initiatives, releases, and measurable outcomes.

AI-Powered Innovation

• Identify and help evaluate opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance career exploration, personalization, educator workflows, and student engagement.
• Partner with technical teams to help define AI‑enabled product experiences that are responsible, scalable, and aligned with educational outcomes.
• Monitor industry trends and competitive innovations to inform product strategy and differentiation.

New Product Introduction

• Support the development and launch of new career-focused products and features from concept through commercialization.
• Coordinate customer research, validation, pilot programs, and launch planning to support successful market introduction.
• Partner with curriculum, design, and engineering teams to deliver high‑quality experiences that meet user needs and business goals.
• Define success metrics with product leadership and monitor adoption, engagement, implementation success, customer outcomes, partnership impact, and business performance.

Customer & Market Insights

• Develop a strong understanding of educators, administrators, students, and district leaders.
• Use qualitative and quantitative research, market intelligence, customer feedback, and product analytics to inform product decisions.
• Represent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle and advocate for customer needs across the organization.
• Experience engaging district administrators, curriculum leaders, and implementation stakeholders to inform product decisions.

Enablement & Implementation Readiness

• Partner closely with implementation, customer success, sales enablement, and marketing teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption.
• Develop scalable approaches to onboarding, training, and customer activation.
• Support go‑to‑market planning and field readiness efforts by translating product priorities into clear customer value propositions.

Product Execution

• Own backlog prioritization and sprint planning activities in partnership with engineering and design teams.
• Clearly articulate detailed product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release scope.
• Coordinate release planning and cross‑functional activities to support high‑quality product launches.
• Help balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities when making product tradeoff recommendations.
• Monitor product performance through KPIs and customer outcomes, identifying opportunities for optimization and growth.
• Collaborate across product teams to ensure seamless user experiences across the Discovery Education ecosystem.

Core Competencies for Success

• Customer Focus: Builds a strong understanding of educators, administrators, students, and district leaders; represents the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle; and uses research, feedback, and analytics to translate customer needs into scalable career‑focused solutions.
• Strategic Mindset: Connects customer needs, market opportunities, technical constraints, and business goals to shape product strategy, roadmaps, initiatives, releases, and measurable outcomes for Career Connect and the emerging careers portfolio.
• Balances Stakeholders: Builds alignment across product leadership, engineering, design, curriculum, research, implementation, sales, marketing, and external partners; makes thoughtful tradeoff recommendations that balance customer impact, feasibility, adoption, and business value.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively across diverse teams and functions to deliver high‑quality product experiences, support go‑to‑market and implementation readiness, and ensure seamless user experiences across the Discovery Education ecosystem.
• Drives Results: Translates strategy into actionable roadmaps, backlog priorities, sprint plans, product requirements, acceptance criteria, release scope, and success metrics; monitors adoption, engagement, customer outcomes, and product performance to identify opportunities for optimization and growth.

Credentials & Experience

• 3+ years of product management experience, including experience with digital products or platforms.
• Experience contributing to 0-to-1 product development and supporting successful product launches.
• Experience contributing to product strategies and roadmaps tied to measurable customer or business outcomes.
• Experience working with AI‑enabled products, personalization technologies, or emerging educational technologies preferred.
• Strong preference for experience serving K-8 education markets.
• Experience collaborating with strategic partners or ecosystem integrations preferred.
• Experience supporting go‑to‑market, implementation, and customer adoption strategies.
• Demonstrated success working with cross‑functional teams in agile product environments; experience with Jira and SaFE agile practices preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Legal right to work in the United States.

This role is designed to be hybrid in Charlotte, NC.

The hiring range for this position is between $124,400 - $138,250 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, this position is eligible for an Annual Bonus.