Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning - powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed - however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers - whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Product Owner brings exceptional learning experiences to life, leading product execution from initial strategy and analysis through in-field use. Drawing ideas and inspiration from users and stakeholders, they curate a thoughtful and strategic product roadmap that maximizes business value. They lean on their working knowledge as well as the ability to analyze and understand customer needs to help shape the product roadmap, identify innovation opportunities and measure success.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Develop and maintain a product roadmap and backlog, including gathering customer and stakeholder feedback, prioritizing planned and potential efforts 3 months to 3 years out, and regularly communicating opportunities and progress against the plan;
Create clear and achievable product plans and facilitate teams in executing all aspects of the product lifecycle, from strategy and analysis through development and rollout to in-field use monitoring and end of availability decisions;
Product owners work with and provide guidance to a scrum team comprising of scrum master and developers ensuring user stories have clearly written acceptance criteria for grooming and sprint work;
Prepares and participates in Program Increment planning;
Collaborates with the program team and line of business representatives to exchange ideas on necessary product features;
Consistently implement a data-action-outcome improvement cycle: gather customer data and feedback, then define and implement improvements based on that data, and carefully measure and evaluate outcomes of those changes to feed further enhancements;
Define, track, and communicate product success metrics that lead to higher academic success, engagement, satisfaction, and business outcomes;
Document and understand users and their needs, and make sure products meet those needs; informed by hands-on user testing, regular conversations with families and schools, and reviews of customer support calls and messages;
Monitor and evaluate the EdTech marketplace and larger learning ecosystem, identifying opportunities for product improvement, competitive advantages or disadvantages, innovative technologies and techniques, and implications for the product roadmap;
Create product documentation, release notes, and other training collateral that clearly and concisely communicates what products offer and how they can help users realize their goals;
Ability to learn existing product ecosystems quickly to build working knowledge and experience.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree AND
Five (5) years of related product management experience, especially in accessibility, assistive technology, online learning, and digital education OR
Equivalent combination of education and experience
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Demonstrates experience providing strong product execution leadership for complex early stage projects
Experience leading technology-based product management initiatives
Passionate and skilled in gathering and interpreting user perspective so that requirements and design reflect real needs. Experience working with users with a range of functional needs
Experience collaborating with internal and external technology partners as well as non-technical stakeholders
Excellent communication, negotiation, leadership, influence-management, and problem-solving skills.
Previous success working with multiple concurrent Agile software development teams (especially Scrum and/or Kanban)
Experience with Agile and SAFe methodologies and development tools such as JIRA, Confluence
Experience with online collaboration tools such as O365, Google Docs, Aha, Trello, StoriesOnBoard, etc.
Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
Ability to travel 5% of the time
Ability to clear required background check
Desired Qualifications:
Experience in education technology organization
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a home based position. This position is open to residents of, and may be performed remotely from Washington, D.C., and from any state except Colorado.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
