Director of Product Management

Knewton is the world’s most powerful adaptive learning engine. Knewton figures out what each student knows and how each student learns best, to pinpoint the type of content, level of difficulty, and which media format each student needs. Its technology can take any free open content, algorithmically calibrate it, and bundle it into a uniquely personalized lesson for each student at any moment.

Are you a visionary product leader who wants to shape the future of education? Knewton is looking for a seasoned, high functioning superstar Director of Product. As part of our leadership team, you will lead Knewton’s consumer product strategy and execution. This is a lynchpin role, and requires consideration for long-term product quality, customer and end user satisfaction, and calls for a highly detail oriented individual with serious entrepreneurial drive and extraordinary flexibility to meet the demands at a high-energy start-up.

* Own the consumer product roadmap, define the requirements, manage new product and feature developments, and roll out our consumer platform * Collaborate across technical, marketing, and BD teams to deliver products that leverage cutting edge analytical techniques to optimize educational content delivery in complex business and technical environments * Prioritize projects among competing opportunities, balance user needs with business priorities, and articulate rationale behind decisions * Glean user insights through data and direct contact with end users * Competitively position our products in our target markets * Define, analyze, track and improve key product metrics and progress against them

* 10+ years of experience building successful large scale consumer products * Demonstrated success delivering complex products in an agile development environment * Strong analytical capability, and experience improving key financial and business metrics * Gracious team player capable of navigating the organization with skill and charm * Entrepreneurial spirit