Senior Product Manager, Mobile App

Learning Care Group; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Childcare discount

Corporate partner discounts

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Learning Care Group is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the SproutAbout mobile app on iOS and Android. You will own the product vision, roadmap, and analytics, partnering with UX, IT, Marketing, and field operations to drive growth in teacher communication activity and app engagement.

You will manage releases, instrumentation, and store presence, while aligning with stakeholders and leadership on progress. This role offers strong benefits and career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5–8 years of product management, including 5 years owning native mobile apps on iOS and Android.
• Experience improving engagement and retention in a mobile app, including push notifications.
• Hands-on experience with Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Firebase and defining event taxonomy.
• Experience with mobile release management, app store review cycles, feature flags, and crash/perf monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the SproutAbout mobile app on iOS and Android.
• Drive measurable improvements in teacher communication activity, MAU, and NPS through prioritized work.
• Define and maintain the backlog in Azure DevOps with sized epics, features, and stories.
• Establish analytics/instrumentation and guide roadmap with data and user research.
• Manage release planning, app health, and store submissions with release cadence and phased rollout.
• Lead intake and tradeoffs with stakeholders across operations, Marketing, IT, and UX.
• Own App Store presence and collaborate with Marketing on listings and ratings.
• Communicate roadmap and performance updates to leadership and field audiences.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Product management

Mobile app ownership

Analytics mindset

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Dynatrace

Figma

Microsoft Teams

Amplitude

Mixpanel

Firebase

Job description

Join a strong community where all we do is care-for the children and families we serve every day, as well as for our dedicated team members. Our people are our best asset. We listen and we know what you're looking for:

• You want benefits. We support you with a minimum 50% childcare discount, immediate access to benefits, innovative health programs, 401(k) company match, and much more.
• You want balance. We offer flexible schedules that work for you, no nights or weekends, the ability to bring your children to work with you, and paid time off.
• You want opportunity. We invest in your future with ongoing training, tuition reimbursement, credential assistance, and our unique Master Teacher Program.
• You want recognition. We provide a positive, fun workplace where employees are appreciated.

The Senior Product Manager, Mobile App owns the SproutAbout mobile experience used by the families and school team members we serve, including product strategy, roadmap, release planning, and backlog across iOS and Android. This role is accountable for growth in teacher communication activity, monthly active users, and app NPS, and for establishing the measurement needed to prove that growth. The Senior Product Manager partners with UX, IT, vendor engineering teams, Marketing, and school field operations to turn requests from the field into sized, prioritized, and measurable product work.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the SproutAbout mobile app on iOS and Android, serving both family and school team audiences.
2. Drive measurable improvement in teacher communication activity, monthly active users, and NPS through prioritized, hypothesis-driven product work.
3. Define and maintain the product backlog in Azure DevOps, translating opportunities into sized, engineering-ready epics, features, and stories with clear acceptance criteria.
4. Establish and own the product analytics and instrumentation approach for the app, and use behavioral data, customer feedback, and user research to guide roadmap decisions.
5. Manage release planning and application health in partnership with engineering, including release cadence, feature flag and phased rollout decisions, app store submissions, and crash and performance monitoring.
6. Lead intake, prioritization, and tradeoff discussions with stakeholders across school field operations, Marketing, IT, and UX.
7. Own the company presence in the Apple App Store and Google Play, partnering with Marketing on store listing content, app store optimization, and ratings and review management.
8. Communicate roadmap, release, and product performance updates to leadership and field audiences at the appropriate level of detail.
9. Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. A bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, design, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.
2. 5-8 years of product management experience is required, including at least 5 years owning native mobile applications on both iOS and Android.
3. Demonstrated experience improving engagement and retention in a mobile application is required, including push notification strategy, lifecycle or re‑engagement features, and personalization.
4. Hands‑on experience with product analytics tooling such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Firebase is required, including defining event taxonomy and building funnel and cohort retention analyses.
5. Experience with mobile release management is required, including app store review cycles, feature flags, phased rollout, and crash and performance monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. 7 or more years of product management experience, with a documented record of moving mobile engagement or retention metrics, is preferred.
2. Experience with React Native, or another framework where iOS, Android, and web share a codebase, is preferred.
3. Experience in early childhood education, K-12, healthcare, or another industry where users are on their feet and sharing devices is preferred.
4. Experience with messaging or communication products, including platform migrations, is preferred.
5. Experience establishing product analytics or product operations practices where none previously existed is preferred.
6. A Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute, or comparable product certification is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Ability to frame product work as a testable hypothesis tied to a business metric, and to make decisions from evidence rather than opinion.
2. Working knowledge of iOS and Android platform capabilities and design standards, including Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design.
3. Ability to balance the needs of two distinct user groups, families and school team members, and to recognize when a change benefits one at the expense of the other.
4. Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Dynatrace, Figma, and Microsoft Teams, or comparable tools.
5. Ability to influence and build consensus across UX, engineering, vendor partners, Marketing, and field operations without direct authority.
6. Written communication that leads with the recommendation and supports it with concise context.
7. Excellent customer service skills with both internal and external customers.
8. Capable of working with frequent interruptions and changing priorities.
9. Effective communication skills, written, verbal and interpersonal.
10. Proficient time management, organizational skills and ability to meet established deadlines.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Compensation based on position, education and experience. Bi-weekly paid.
• Base salary range: $140-150k.
• This position is eligible for our Support Central bonus program which is based on annual achievement of company performance.

Health and Wellness Benefits:

• Employees are eligible for a variety of health and welfare benefits based on their Full-time or Part-time status on their date of hire, which include medical, dental, vision, healthcare & dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs), life insurance, disability, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, pre-paid legal, pet insurance and identity theft protection.
• Employees are eligible to participate in our 401(k) retirement plan after 30 days of employment. Participating employees are also eligible to receive a company provided match on their elective deferrals once they reach 1 year of employment with the company.

Employee perks/discounts:

• Education assistance including tuition reimbursement
• Childcare discount available to all employees
• Corporate partner Discounts
• This position is eligible for paid time off. All Corporate employees are enrolled in our Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) plan. This plan allows for flexibility and discretion between employees and managers in taking time off - with no set accrual for vacation or sick time. Employees can use Flexible PTO for any reason and is compliant with the Colorado Healthy Families Work Act.
• Applications accepted through 10/23/2026.

Learning Care is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.