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Art of Problem Solving

Senior Director of Product - Learner Experience

🇺🇸 San Diego, CA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $180K - $210K

💻 Product Development

🗓️ March 25th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Art of Problem Solving is hiring a Senior Director of Product - Learner Experience. The role involves leading a brand refresh project and developing new digital learning experiences, managing a team of product managers, and collaborating with engineering, design, and marketing teams to ensure high-quality execution. This position demands an individual who can foster a "demo culture," create storytelling practices, and push the boundaries of math education with innovative designs and AI tools. 

Highlights
  • Lead development of new live and self-paced classroom products
  • Manage a team of product managers
  • Requires experience in high-velocity product teams and team management
  • Create innovative learning experiences using AI and integration of hardware and software
  • Base salary range of $180k - $210k, with performance-based bonus
  • Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Building an iconic educational brand

Senior Director of Product - Learner Experience Full Description

At AoPS, we are world leaders in teaching advanced mathematics. We train many of the most elite mathematicians in the world, including all members of the US International Math Olympiad team. Despite this impact, AoPS remains relatively unknown to the broader public.

AoPS is unique because it is vertically integrated: it develops its own curriculum, runs its own physical learning centers, employs teachers, and has a robust and capable product, design, and engineering team. Today, our curriculum and academic programs are absolutely world-class, but our digital experiences are dated. Your job will be to reimagine our digital learning experience, and to push the upper bounds of great teaching and learning.

We are hiring for two Senior Director of Product roles. One will be in charge of Learner Experience, the other in charge of Customer Experience. They will work closely with each other and the Chief Product Officer in standing up a new Product Management department of the company and recruiting and managing a team of great product managers.

The Senior Director of Product - Learner Experience will be:
  • Helping lead a major brand refresh project to build an iconic, nationally renowned educational brand
  • Developing new live classroom products used by teachers and students for all AoPS in-person and online course offerings
  • Developing new self-paced and asynchronous learning experiences that leverage AoPS’s world-class curriculum and recent advances in AI
  • Creating radically new learning experiences for pushing the ceiling of great math education, including designs that combine hardware, software, and new AI tools
  • Managing a team of product managers working on different components of the learning journey
  • Fostering a "demo culture" where design ideas are quickly prototyped and tested with real students and teachers
  • Creating a culture of storytelling, a deep understanding of customer journeys, and attention to the details of a quality user experience
  • Collaborating with engineering, design, curriculum developers, and marketing teams to ensure cohesive and high-quality execution

You might be a good fit for this position if...
  • You hold a high bar for great products, have strong opinions, and can evangelize great learning experience across the company
  • You have well-developed opinions about pedagogy and learning experiences
  • You are excited for the future of AI tutoring, but also know that the best tutors sometimes just wait patiently and say nothing
  • You have experience in high-velocity product teams, and can rally teams to fast-paced and high-quality execution
  • You are an experienced manager who has built the loyalty and respect of your teams
  • You're willing to throw away good ideas in pursuit of great ones
  • You enjoy spending time with students and teachers in classrooms and are excited to make things intuitive and obvious for them
  • You're curious about mathematics and are eager to dive into what makes a truly great learning experience

Perks and Benefits:
This is a full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The base salary for this role is 180k - 210k. Compensation includes a performance-based bonus.

Some benefits of the position include:
  • Impact: The opportunity to help more students discover the joy of mathematical problem-solving
  • Culture: Work in an environment of world-class engineers and designers, who love creating interesting problems…and solving them
  • Creativity: Freedom to experiment, test, and refine products that make both learning and teaching mathematics more engaging
  • Benefits: Competitive compensation package including medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401K with company match
  • Ease of Transition: This can be your era of sunshine, palm trees, and beaches. Relocation assistance is available if currently located outside of San Diego

Background Check: Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

About AoPS:
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.

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