Product Manager – Contractor (1099)

9 hours, 1 minute ago
Contract
Senior
Software Development
InStride

InStride

InStride is the premier global provider of strategic workforce education, empowering companies to align talent with business objectives and drive growth through best-in-class education solutions. They partner with top academic institutions to offer lif...

Professional Services
51-250
Founded 2019

Description

  • Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through launch for technical product initiatives.
  • Own a roadmap of features and capabilities that support a scalable, high-quality learner and partner experience.
  • Partner closely with engineering to define scope, sequence work, manage dependencies, and make tradeoffs.
  • Lead product work for technical pods, including internal support tools, eligibility management, core platform/API evolution, and front-end framework migration.
  • Ensure technical initiatives are clearly connected to business outcomes, operational efficiency, or future product capabilities.
  • Collaborate with other departments to triage, review, and prioritize feature and bug requests from internal and external stakeholders.
  • Define, track, and report on key product metrics using data analytics and user research.
  • Support exploration and go-to-market efforts for new business solutions and features.
  • Maintain a strong understanding of working adult learners and employer partners through market and internal data analysis.
  • Translate market and business needs into product solutions and features.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of product management or similar experience, preferably in edtech or HR tech.
  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
  • Experience with agile software development practices, including epics, user stories, backlog management, and roadmap planning.
  • Experience leading or contributing to platform, infrastructure-adjacent, or internal product initiatives such as APIs, internal tools, system integrations, or migrations.
  • Comfort working in deeply technical problem spaces and switching between technical and customer- or partner-facing work.
  • Experience leading technical conversations with less technical internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data or proxy data to inform decisions and prioritization.
  • Strong documentation, knowledge management, and impact measurement skills.
  • Ability to work on ambiguous, open-ended problems and distill large amounts of information into recommendations.
  • Preferred interest in collaborating with corporate and higher education leaders and working across technical product pods.

Benefits

  • Step Forward program with access to 2,800+ online certificate and degree programs.
  • Tuition covered upfront starting on Day 1 for eligible employees.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Paid family leave.
  • Best-in-class health care benefits.
  • Eligible for additional benefits and perks not fully listed in the posting.

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