Senior Product Manager - School Nutrition Platform

emslinqinc; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LINQ, a fast-growing K-12 software company, is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own a defined set of LINQ School Nutrition modules. You will report to the Sr.

Director of Nutrition and drive strategy, roadmap, customer engagement, and delivery end-to-end for your domain, impacting how districts serve students daily. You will partner with engineering leadership on architecture decisions, build business cases, mentor PMs, and translate user insights into measurable product outcomes in a

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of product management experience on SaaS products.
• Demonstrated experience owning a complex product area with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and real tradeoffs.
• Direct experience partnering with engineering teams at the architecture level - not just execution.
• Strong client-facing experience, including regular customer engagement to understand needs, challenges, and outcomes.
• Experience building and communicating product roadmaps and business cases to senior stakeholders.
• Strong strategic thinking - you can zoom out, see the market, and connect product decisions to business outcomes.
• Sound judgment on what to build and what not to build, with the ability to defend those calls clearly.
• Technically fluent - comfortable with API-based integrations, data architecture, and infrastructure tradeoffs.
• Comfortable making decisions and owning outcomes in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
• Collaborative but direct - you

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a complex product area, including strategy, discovery, delivery, and post-launch measurement.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap that balances near-term customer needs with longer-term platform investments and business goals.
• Lead customer engagement - advisory boards, user research, interviews - and translate insights into strategic direction.
• Assess product capabilities, backlog health, and competitive positioning to set priorities across competing demand.
• Partner with engineering leadership on technical architecture decisions, platform investments, and technical debt tradeoffs.
• Build and communicate business cases for significant investments, with clear framing of alternatives and tradeoffs.
• Identify and champion cross-team dependencies, surfacing risks before they become blockers.
• Operate as the recognized subject-matter expert for your domain, internally and with customers.
• Mentor PMs and APMs, raising the quality of product work across the team.
• Contribute to broader product strategy discussions, bringing data-driven perspectives and a clear point of view.

Skills

Product management

SaaS products

Roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Customer engagement

Architecture collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Strategic thinking

Decision making

Tools

API integrations

Data architecture

Job description

LINQ, a fast-growing K-12 software company, is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own a defined set of LINQ School Nutrition modules. You will report to the Sr.

Director of Nutrition and drive strategy, roadmap, customer engagement, and delivery end-to-end for your domain, impacting how districts serve students daily. You will partner with engineering leadership on architecture decisions, build business cases, mentor PMs, and translate user insights into measurable product outcomes in a