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Magic EdTech

Product Operations Manager

🇺🇸 Boston, MA

🕑 Contractor

💰 $75K - $120K

💻 Operations

🗓️ February 6th, 2025

SCRUM Smartsheet

Edtech.com's Summary

Magic Edtech is hiring a Product Operations Manager. The role involves leading cross-functional teams to launch a new product platform, ensuring smooth collaboration between client and development teams from ideation to release. The manager will support the Product Manager and Head of Technology in requirement gathering, managing communication workflows with offshore teams, and ensuring effective collaboration across design, client, engineering, and product teams.
 
Highlights 
  • Main responsibility is to support the Product Manager and Head of Technology by handling administrative tasks and facilitating communication.
  • Requires experience with Agile/Scrum teams and tools like JIRA, Yodiz, Slack, and Jira/Yodiz.
  • Salary range: $75K to $120K.
  • A minimum of three years of experience in Technical Product Management required.
  • Ideal candidate should be hyper-organized and skilled in cross-functional collaboration.
  • Familiarity with elementary education is a plus.
  • Contract full-time role, lasting approximately seven months with potential renewal.

Product Operations Manager Full Description

Product Operations Manager

The Product Manager will help lead the team working cross-functionally to bring a new product (platform) to market. He / She will ensure that the Client and development teams work together closely to bring the product from ideation through all phases to release.

Experience Range
  • 8+ years
Salary Range
  • $75K to $120K
Location
  • Boston area
Mode
  • Contract full-time
  • Duration ca. 7 months, but could be renewed
  • Work full-time at the Client’s location

Role/Job Description
  • Primary responsibility is to support Client’s Product Manager and Head of Technology by collecting and transmitting requirements, user stories, documentation, etc., for a major platform project
  • Work with Offshore Agile team located in India to ensure clear communication, good documentation of requirements and user stories being done and placed
  • Create effective communication workflows using standard tools such as Slack, Jira / Yodiz (Agile Project Management tool), etc.
  • Ensure communication and facilitation across design, client, engineering, and product teams
  • Work with multiple vendors on project
  • Support UAT with Acceptance Criteria and reporting back to development team on fixes needed
  • Serve as a key expert to the whole team, and maintain an up-to-date centralized repository of information about the product to drive visibility and alignment
  • Relieve the Client’s Product Manager and Head of Technology of as much of the administrative burden as possible

Qualifications/Experience/Background
  • Minimum three years of experience in Technical Product Management
  • Familiarity with elementary education a plus
  • Skilled at communicating across multiple teams and varying levels of stakeholders
  • Experience with cross functional collaboration and negotiation
  • Hyper-organized and capable of juggling multiple tasks
  • Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams
  • Comfortable in using Planning tools like, MPP, Smartsheet, or similar tools
  • Experience using Agile Project management tools, like, JIRA, Yodiz etc.