Senior AI Education Product Manager (Remote)

Playlab; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement

Generous time off

Opportunities for professional growth

Remote-first environment

Job summary

Playlab, a tech non-profit focused on AI in education, is seeking its first product manager to shape how educators and students build with AI. You’ll own product strategy, write clear requirements, and collaborate with engineering, ML, design, and partnerships to deliver impactful tools worldwide.

This remote-first role demands 7+ years of PM experience in early-stage or high-growth settings, comfort with ambiguity, and a passion for equity in education.

Qualifications

• Have 7+ years of product management experience, including at least one early-stage or high-growth environment where you had to build process, not just follow it.
• Have led product development for AI-powered or technically complex products—you can work fluently with ML and engineering teams.
• Get energy from the details: you'd rather write a clear spec than a strategy deck.
• Ship fast without cutting corners: you know how to de-risk builds and make incremental progress.
• Thrive in ambiguity and can make good decisions with incomplete information.
• Communicate crisply: you can explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Care about education, equity, or mission-driven work; this isn't just a job, it's a chance to shape how AI shows up in schools.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize ruthlessly, write clear specs, and work with design, engineering, and learning teams to ship
• De-risk builds by breaking work into meaningful increments that let us learn as we go
• Make tradeoffs when scope, timeline, and resources collide and communicate those tradeoffs clearly
• Write detailed requirements that align design, engineering, and go-to-market teams
• Understand the technical constraints and possibilities, and work side-by-side with engineering
• Engage directly with users, and gather user feedback, usage data, and partner insights to inform decisions
• Establish rituals, artifacts, and communication patterns that help a growing team stay aligned
• Create clarity about how product decisions get made, without slowing the team down
• Document what's working so others can build on it
• Work with Learning and Partnerships to translate field feedback into clear priorities and simpler designs
• Coordinate with design to ensure what we build is usable, not just functional
• Pressure-test strategic assumptions against what you see in the product and hear from users
• Surface when priorities should shift, and make the case with evidence
• Help leadership make better decisions by bringing clarity to ambiguous situations

Skills

Product management

AI products

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Requirements writing

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Playlab, a tech non-profit focused on AI in education, is seeking its first product manager to shape how educators and students build with AI. You’ll own product strategy, write clear requirements, and collaborate with engineering, ML, design, and partnerships to deliver impactful tools worldwide.

This remote-first role demands 7+ years of PM experience in early-stage or high-growth settings, comfort with ambiguity, and a passion for equity in education.