Product Manager, School Operations & AI Systems

Primer (Microschools); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity

100% health insurance

Life insurance

Daily lunch

Job summary

Primer is building a new school system in San Francisco, empowering teachers and operators with simple, scalable software. As Product Manager for Operations, you will own the portfolio from strategy to launch, partnering with design, engineering, and school operators to turn the messy reality of running campuses into reliable, human-centered tools.

You’ll spend time in schools, understand how work actually happens, and push for AI-enabled workflows that reduce repetitive tasks while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Experience building products for complex, physical workflows.
• Strong ownership. You can take an ambiguous problem, figure out what matters, make decisions, and drive it through adoption and impact.
• Resourceful and creative. You generate options, learn scrappy ways to progress.
• Comfort working in messy, real-world environments with operators.
• Analytical enough to reason from data, practical enough to trust field insights.
• Strong opinions, loosely held, ready to adjust with new facts.
• Clear writing and structured thinking.
• Excited to work on-site in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Turn the daily reality of running schools into simple, useful products.
• Build systems that help teams understand campus health and surface issues before they escalate.
• Reduce administrative work for educators and help operators scale across a growing network.
• Own the Operations product portfolio from strategy through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Spend time with campus leaders, educators, and central operators to identify bottlenecks and collaborate with Design and Engineering to solve them.
• Aim for simple, intuitive, and joyful experiences for all users and scale products for growth.

Skills

Product management

Complex workflows

Ownership

Resourceful

Operational empathy

Analytical thinking

Clear communication

On-site SF

Job description

Primer is building a new school system in San Francisco, empowering teachers and operators with simple, scalable software. As Product Manager for Operations, you will own the portfolio from strategy to launch, partnering with design, engineering, and school operators to turn the messy reality of running campuses into reliable, human-centered tools.

You’ll spend time in schools, understand how work actually happens, and push for AI-enabled workflows that reduce repetitive tasks while