We are looking for an entrepreneurial senior product manager capable of wearing many hats and partnering with other PMs, product designers, engineers, and QA testers to build a suite of products designed to make education more equitable and accessible.
Responsibilities
- Lead an agile approach to defining and building the product: Lead product-market exploration, including the pilots, school/district interviews and both primary and secondary research. Lead design sprints to prototype. Identify product and market requirements (PRD/MRD). Codify a high level product strategy and roadmap (epics/themes). Design product specs, including user stories, tasks, feature definitions, and mockups.
- Support engineering to build and ship products: Thinking through features in detail, including corner cases, and preemptively answering engineer questions. Providing data/analysis and customer research where needed. Partnering with engineering lead to develop an agile approach to product development. Project managing (SCRUM Master) agile sprints.
- Support sales, marketing, and pilot efforts: Lead product marketing (initially), including developing collateral, blog posts, demo videos, product overviews. Lead sales demos and technical sales conversations. Enable sales and marketing with product or technical training, demo scripts, etc.
Role Qualifications
- Expertise in product management methodologies, processes, etc.
- 4+ years as a product manager
- Demonstrated passion for in education, equity, or social impact
- Customer-centric mindset and passion for education, equity, or social impact
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive, extraordinary comfort with ambiguity, enjoyment wearing many hats
- Among the best at what you do with a growth mindset and desire to constantly improve
- Preferred: Education experience or deep understanding of K12 or higher education
Compensation, Seniority, and Reporting
- Reports to Cathy Huang, Product Lead
- Level: P4 (Senior) - P6 (Principal) [Senior Individual Contributor (IC)]
- Salary: $110,000 - $160,000
- Equity: 20,000 - 100,000
- Note: As a seed-stage education startup, our salaries are lower across the board, but equity is high to align incentives and share in the upside. Successful candidates will be given 3 offers to choose from, either offsetting levels of salary/cash and equity/stock compensation.
Tech Stack
Experience with our specific technologies is not required, and our stack is constantly evolving. Here's what we're using now:
Front-end:
- React + TypeScript
- Chakra UI with focus on a11y
- Jest + React Testing Library for unit tests
- Playwright for end-to-end tests
Back-end + Database:
- GraphQL with Hasura
- AWS Lambda with NodeJS / TypeScript and Go.
- AWS Serverless Services: Fargate, Aurora, S3, SNS
- AWS RDS with PostgreSQL
DevOps:
- AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
- AWS CodeBuild and AWS Codepipeline
- AWS Amplify for Front-End
Company
Avela is a Nobel Prize-winning edtech startup building the first universal application for PK-12 education, daycare, and enrichment programs, promoting equity and access to education.
For students and families, this simplifies the process of finding and applying to educational programming. For schools and districts, this streamlines operations and helps increase enrollment (and hence, revenue).
We sell our application and enrollment platform directly to school districts, charter networks, other educational providers, cities, and states. We work with school districts and charter networks across the country, including in Oakland, Seattle, Hartford, Tulsa, New Orleans, Newark, and Jersey City. We also work with a range of nonprofits and NGOs, including Teach for America and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the US Military.
Our platform has four parts to cover each stage of the application journey, from exploring options to applying and final selection and admission:
Avela Explore - Mobile-optimized school finder and opportunity navigator
Avela Apply - Streamlined application management system and tracking
Avela Match - Research-based admission and student assignment lottery system.
We also offer a range of consulting services to help districts implement enrollment reforms and advance equity in educational programs.
Learn more at avela.org.
Team
Avela was founded by a renowned team of visionaries, including Nobel Laureate Joshua Angrist, Clark Medalist Parag Pathak, and social entrepreneur Greg Bybee. We have a passionate team of entrepreneurs, engineers, economists, and data scientists - get to know us at https://avela.org/team.
Location
We are a flexible, fully remote company. We just ask that everyone work continental US hours to facilitate collaboration. #LI-Remote
Benefits
We love our team and care about their wellness. We strive to offer the best benefits of our peers, including:
- Significant equity
- Flexible work policies
- Unlimited vacation
- Home office stipend or WeWork membership
- 401(k) program
- Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
- Dependent Care Saving Plan (DCFSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- Life Insurance by Guardian (covered 100%)
- Platinum Medical Plan by UnitedHealthcare (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
- Platinum Dental Plan by Guardian Health (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
- Platinum Vision Plan by Guardian Health (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
Learn more at avela.org/careers.
We Encourage You To Apply
Avela is a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We strongly encourage you to apply if you are from a marginalized or underrepresented group, even if you don't meet all of the job requirements. If you believe this is a role that you’ll be excited to work in every day, want to be a part of a culture like ours, and will be relentless about pushing boundaries to succeed, please apply.
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