Product Manager, Education

Learning Commons; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Volunteer time off

Family-forming benefits funding

Relocation support

Job summary

Learning Commons is seeking a Product Manager for the Knowledge Graph team. This 12-month fixed-term role will turn fragmented educational data into structured, queryable infrastructure and define what the graph covers as it grows.

You will own datasets end to end, collaborate on APIs with developers and partners, shape the roadmap using evidence, and ensure clear acceptance criteria for launches. This role supports remote work with base pay in Redwood City, CA.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of product management experience with a track record of shipping data products, APIs, or developer-facing platforms.
• Experience building products in education or edtech, with understanding of curricula and classrooms.
• Ability to work with deep technical experts and document complex technical decisions clearly.
• Hands-on data fluency: open raw data files, write queries, count, and reason about entities and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own datasets end to end, from acquisition and licensing through modeling, ingestion, and launch, with clear docs for engineering to build and ship.
• Work closely with developers and partners who use the graph to understand needs and shape the API surfaces they build on.
• Use partner evidence to shape the roadmap and plan near-term work with engineering.
• Open source data yourself, run coverage and gap analyses, map new sources to the graph and decide when to reuse or extend models.
• Set clear, testable acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.
• Keep engineering, partnerships, tech writers, and marketing aligned to move launches forward.

Skills

Data fluency

SQL

Cypher

Product sense

Education

Education/EdTech background

Tools

JSONL

CSV

SQL

Cypher

Job description

Learning Commons aims to scale proven teaching and learning practices to benefit every learner by building AI infrastructure that better connects the way students learn to the tools they learn with. It pairs product development with grantmaking, working across technology, research, and philanthropy to bring learning science into the products educators and students use every day. Its current focus includes building open, public-purpose infrastructure - datasets, rubrics, and resources - to raise the standard for educational AI tools.

The role

This is a 12-month fixed-term Product Manager position on the Knowledge Graph team. The Knowledge Graph turns fragmented educational data (scattered across incompatible formats, academic journals, and proprietary systems) into structured, queryable infrastructure that connects what students are expected to learn, the materials they learn from, and the research on how they learn best. As the graph expands into new subjects and kinds of data, you would help decide what it covers and how much developers can rely on it.

What you would do

• Own datasets end to end, taking each from acquisition and licensing through modeling, ingestion, and launch, and writing product docs clear enough for engineering to build and ship without rework.
• Work closely with the developers and build partners who use the graph to understand their needs, identify where they get stuck, and help shape the API surfaces they build on.
• Use partner evidence to shape the roadmap - deciding which data to bring in and how it should grow - and plan near-term work with engineering so the team ships against a clear, current plan.
• Open source data yourself, run coverage and gap analyses, verify what ships against the source, and decide how a new source maps onto the graph, when to reuse the model, and when to extend it.
• Set clear, testable acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.
• Keep engineering, Trust, partnerships, tech writers, and marketing aligned to move each launch forward.

What they are looking for

• 3-5 years of product management experience with a track record of shipping, preferably data products, APIs, or developer-facing platforms.
• Education or edtech grounding: experience building products in education or working in the field, with enough understanding of curricula, academic standards, and classrooms to judge what developers serving schools actually need.
• Ability to work with deep technical experts as a credible peer - asking sharp questions, pressure-testing tradeoffs, and writing up complex technical decisions clearly.
• Hands- on data fluency: you personally open raw data files (JSONL, CSV), write queries (SQL, Cypher, or similar), pull your own counts, reason about entities and relationships, and can tell a data gap from a modeling gap.
• Strong product sense: understanding what the people building on your product are trying to do and where they get stuck, and turning that into priorities.

Working arrangements

The role is based in Redwood City, CA and listed as remote. Pay ranges outside Redwood City are adjusted based on cost of labor in each geographical market.

Pay and benefits

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire is $190,000 - $238,000 per year. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range. Actual placement is based on job-related skills and experience. The position may be eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus. Benefits include a generous employer 401(k) match, paid volunteer time off, funding for select family- forming benefits, and relocation support.