Senior Product Manager - Team Lead

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Frontline Education is hiring a Sr Product Manager/Team Lead D&A – Comparative Analytics, Platform & Data. This role involves leading product strategy for data analytics, managing a team, and influencing platform and data strategies, with a focus on running the Comparative Analytics product roadmap.

Highlights

Main responsibilities include driving product vision and strategy, managing teams, and ensuring successful product delivery.
Requires skills in data product management, preferably with Tableau, and technical product management with platforms.
Accountable for leading the product development team and defining product roadmaps.
Experience needed in building data analytics products and knowledge of K-12 industry data.
Intermediate technical understanding of software and data architecture, with proficiency in Excel and Tableau.
Proven expertise in Agile Methodology and cross-functional team leadership.
Qualifications include 5+ years in product management and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
Benefits include a competitive compensation package, bonus structure, 401k match, and unlimited PTO.

Senior Product Manager - Team Lead Full Description

Sr Product Manager/Team Lead D&A – Comparative Analytics, Platform & Data

Remote

Frontline Education is a pioneer of school administration software purpose-built for K-12 districts. We provide innovative, connected solutions for student and special programs, business operations, and human capital management with powerful data and analytics to empower educators and administrators. We earn the trust of K-12 leaders across the U.S. by serving as a consistently high-performing, forthright partner of school districts through every dimension of the company.

We're a group of unique and talented individuals that love what we do who work with an appreciative and friendly customer base. We work hard to make our customers happy, but we like to have a good time in the process. We are a company that strives to think in terms of “we” instead of “me.” We believe in the philosophy of servant leadership and that it’s all about putting others first. We also value the balance between family and work.

Position Vision/Objectives:

This Senior Product Manager/Team Lead is strong senior product manager managing people in a player and coach role, focusing on the leading product strategy as well as cross-solution, big picture initiatives while overseeing their team.

This Senior Product Manager/Team Lead will have a data product management background building data product, preferably in Tableau and a technical product management background with Platforms. This position will primarily run our Comparative Analytics product roadmap and will influence our platform and data strategy.

Product Management Responsibilities:

Under the leadership of the Director of Product, the Data and Analytics Pillar lead drives product vision, roadmap, and strategy that delights customers and creates buy-in for the product vision.
As Product General Manager mindset, engages with Frontline’s customers, services, and sales teams to understand requirements, and to ensure successful product delivery. Additionally, engage with Finance to ensure strategy aligns with Frontline’s financial targets.
Champions the definition of creative, high quality, simple product roadmaps based on co-developed strategy and vision.
Assumes business outcome and ownership of all direct and tangential product initiatives.
Collaborates with Product Owners and software engineers to turn functional specifications into next-generation business services.
Accountable for leading the product development team to execute on the right features in terms of requirements, definition, quality and metrics for their product. (both software development and data development)
- Define and Prioritize the Product Backlog
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate/write them into user stories, epics, and tasks.
- Represent the customer's perspective within the team by understanding their pain points, goals, and feedback.
- Work closely with development, design, marketing, and other teams to define the scope, ensure alignment, and resolve dependencies.
- Participate actively in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, estimate level of efforts, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure smooth delivery.
- Ensure timely and high-quality product releases, balancing the scope with technical feasibility and timelines.
- Lead team through activities related to Annual Planning Process for owned product

Domain Knowledge and Expertise:

Has prior experience successfully building and launching data and analytics products
Deeply understands analytical products from the both the analyst and executive persona
- Ability to direct both the data and software strategy of analytics products
Knowledge of the K-12 industry with regards to Enrollment Projections, Financial, Salary, Enrollment, Student Performance, Taxes, and Live Birth data
Ability to work around large and complicated data sets
Software Platform experience with backend services, databases, IDMs/SSO, etc.
Intermediate technical individual who understands of the software and data architecture for analytics products
Understand high level database concepts, data systems, data warehouses (Snowflake), and best practices on how these systems work together with highly data focused applications.
Strong working experience with Excel, Tableau, and other data visualization tools

Operational leadership:

Keeps team on track with deliverables and works to address any blockers – for example, supports change management of team adopting a new way of communicating the roadmap
Ensures reporting data is kept up to date for leadership & Stakeholders (Solution leaders, Director, CPO, Product Team) to inform on plans, status, progress of planned roadmap initiatives against KPI’s with both external and internal stakeholders
- examples are roadmaps, release progress, launches, other as needed
Ensures data is uploaded and visualized in a timely manner for Comparative Analytics

Position Requirements:

Proven expertise leading cross-functional teams that together launch on-time and on-budget.
You will be required to showcase excellent leadership, people management, project management, problem solving, and communication to both internal and external colleagues at scale.
A proven performer with strong intracompany relationships and the ability to directly and indirectly lead teams and projects.
Strong understanding of Agile Methodology
Demonstration of ability to effectively perform the Product role, is data driven, process orientation, open to feedback and development “is coach-able”
Coordinate data/development projects and prioritize the ongoing work of those teams.
Evaluate and prioritize customer requirements, leveraging industry best practices and new innovations. Prioritize and manage the backlog for effective release and planning.
5+ years in Product Management designing and delivering world-class software products or equivalent experience.
Bachelor degree in a Business, Computer Science, engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience. Masters degree or MBA is a plus.

Working knowledge of product strategy and key business results (Bookings, Retention, Operational Efficiency), including but not limited to:

Competitive Analysis
Market Analysis & SWOT
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
Win/Loss Analysis
Customer Sat and retention analysis

Frontline embraces diversity, equity, and inclusivity. We are intentionally building a workplace that respects, supports, and values the identities of all our employees. We believe this to be foundational in developing a strong community in our company. Frontline Education is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Frontline offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary, rewarding bonus structure, 401k match, and unlimited PTO! Our company growth has created a promising environment for career advancement and rewarding challenges. We offer a tuition reimbursement program for eligible college credit coursework available to employees depending on their status and length of employment.

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