Product Manager

moderncampus; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Modern Campus is seeking a Product Manager for Lifelong Learning to lead strategy, discovery, and delivery of our higher-ed platform. You’ll partner with Engineering, UX, Customer Success, Services, and GTM to improve learner experience, boost registrations, and drive efficiency across North American institutions.

You’ll own the product backlog, help define KPIs, and explore AI-enabled innovations while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, data-informed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in Product Management or SaaS product development.
• Experience taking products from discovery to launch and optimization.
• Experience in Agile product development.
• Strong customer discovery, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and prioritization.
• Ability to connect customer and market needs to measurable business outcomes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience making strategic trade-offs in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in AI, automation, analytics, and emerging tech.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, roadmap, priorities, and outcomes for assigned product area.
• Translate customer needs and market trends into product opportunities.
• Define backlog, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering and UX to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
• Conduct customer discovery and validate problems with data.
• Monitor KPIs and optimize product performance with feedback.

Skills

Customer discovery

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Prioritization

Communication skills

Cross-functional influence

Agile experience

AI / emerging tech fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

CSPO Certification

Job description

About Modern Campus

Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Our platform spans web content management, curriculum and catalog management, student engagement and lifelong learning — giving more than 1,700 colleges and universities the infrastructure they need to support the entire learner-to-earner lifecycle and deliver personalized, scalable experiences.
We partner with the education community to create new pathways for learning and opportunity, reimagining how institutions serve the modern learner and shape the future of education.
Our purpose — our north star — is to empower institutions to confidently serve and support the modern learner.
This mission and purpose come to life through how we show up every day:

• We exist to create empowerment through education.
• We lead with honesty and empathy.
• We shape the future through innovation.
• We become trusted partners.
• We make the complex feel possible.

Product Manager, Lifelong Learning

Product | Remote (United States) | Remote (Canada)

The Opportunity

Modern Campus is seeking a Product Manager to join our Lifelong Learning product team.

In this role, you will own key areas of our lifelong learning platform, partnering closely with Engineering, UX, Customer Success, Services, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver solutions that improve the learner experience, increase registrations, and drive operational efficiency for higher education institutions.

You will serve as the Product Owner for Agile development teams while also contributing to product strategy, roadmap planning, customer discovery, and commercial outcomes. This position sits at the intersection of customer needs, business objectives, market opportunity, and technical execution.

The ideal candidate is customer-obsessed, data-informed, commercially minded, and excited about applying emerging technologies, including AI, to solve meaningful challenges within higher education.

What You'll Do

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the strategy, roadmap, priorities, and outcomes for an assigned product area.
• Translate customer needs, business objectives, market trends, competitive intelligence, and product insights into product opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer value, product adoption, retention, expansion, revenue growth, and operational efficiency.
• Develop business cases and recommendations that balance customer impact, market opportunity, investment, and delivery complexity.

Product Discovery & Innovation

• Conduct customer discovery through interviews, user research, workflow analysis, experimentation, and data analysis.
• Validate problems and solutions using qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Evaluate and champion opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve customer outcomes.
• Stay informed on industry trends and evolving learner needs within higher education and professional learning.

Product Delivery & Execution

• Define, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Create and manage product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
• Partner closely with Engineering and UX teams to deliver intuitive, scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and support development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Balance competing priorities while making thoughtful, data-informed decisions.

Product Performance & Growth

• Define product goals, KPIs, success metrics, and adoption targets.
• Monitor product performance and continuously optimize based on customer feedback and business results.
• Partner with Customer Success, Services, Support, and Sales teams to identify adoption barriers and improve the end-to-end customer experience.
• Support pricing, packaging, positioning, and go-to-market planning initiatives.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the voice of the customer and subject matter expert for assigned product areas.
• Communicate product direction, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders across the organization.
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership teams.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, experimentation, and accountability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, SaaS product development, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing products, features, or complex capabilities from discovery through launch and ongoing optimization.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.
• Strong customer discovery, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to connect customer and market needs to measurable business outcomes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Experience making strategic trade-off decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated interest in AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in higher education technology, EdTech, enterprise SaaS, or other complex B2B software environments.
• Experience launching, managing, or enhancing AI-powered products and features.
• Knowledge of product analytics tools and experimentation methodologies.
• Experience using customer feedback, market research, and product usage data to guide decision-making.
• Familiarity with product-led growth strategies, customer adoption programs, and customer enablement initiatives.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, accessibility standards, privacy regulations, and data security best practices.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or comparable Agile/Product Management certification.
• Experience supporting lifelong learning, workforce development, continuing education, professional education, or learner engagement solutions.

Core Competencies

• Strategic Thinking and Product Vision
• Customer Obsession and User Advocacy
• Product Discovery and Innovation
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Commercial and Business Acumen
• AI and Emerging Technology Fluency
• Prioritization and Product Judgment
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Communication and Influence
• Change Management and Adaptability
• Ownership and Accountability
• Continuous Learning and Growth Mindset

Why Join Modern Campus?

At Modern Campus, you'll help shape the future of education by building products that support learners throughout their lifelong learning journey. You'll work alongside passionate team members, collaborate with leading institutions across North America, and contribute to meaningful solutions that have a direct impact on learner success and institutional growth.