Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HMH is a learning technology company that provides K–12 curriculum, assessment, intervention, and professional learning solutions. The Director of Product Management for MAP Growth Literacy will lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, commercial performance, and execution of NWEA’s literacy assessment solutions while managing a product team and collaborating across research, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the product vision, strategy and roadmap for MAP Growth literacy solutions by leveraging customer insights, market demand, industry trends, competitive dynamics and organization objectives
- Identify portfolio investment opportunities across the suite of NWEA and HMH solutions in support of enterprise integration strategies
- Make clear, data-informed tradeoff decisions across features, investments, and timelines to ensure focus on measurable literacy outcomes
- Own revenue growth, margin performance, and portfolio health ensuring strong alignment between product investments and business outcomes
- Partner with Product, Sales, Finance, and Product Marketing on pricing and growth strategies
- Develop business cases and monitor commercial performance metrics
- Establish clear standards for product discovery, prioritization, and delivery to ensure work is focused on the highest-impact opportunities
- Drive disciplined roadmap execution with measurable outcomes, balancing innovation, usability, and psychometric rigor in partnership with Research and Engineering
- Ensure product decisions are grounded in data, user insights, and clear success metrics
- Lead, hire, mentor and inspire the product team supporting their success as individuals and as a collective high performing team
- Set clear objectives and foster a collaborative environment to ensure the team’s success in delivering high-quality products
- Nurture robust relationships with stakeholders with the ability to influence cross-functionally and align teams around priorities and tradeoff decisions
- Collaborate with Product Marketing on go-to-market strategy and launch activities
- Collaborate with Product leaders across HMH and NWEA to ensure alignment and integration across the broader assessment ecosystem
- Serve as product SME internally and externally
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree
- * 7–10 years product management experience
- * 3+ years leading a product team
- * Strong commercial orientation with proven ability to successfully manage product line financial outcomes
- * Proven ability to define, communicate, and deliver product roadmaps through cross-functional teams while managing competing priorities
- * Experience in the education assessment sector with demonstrated depth in literacy assessment and/or literacy instruction
- * Ability to anticipate and make timely decisions that result in effective products, programs, scalable processes, and business outcomes
- * Adept in professionally partnering with customers, colleagues, and industry experts to develop and maintain long-term supportive relationships
- * Demonstrates clear, concise, and compelling communication ability, combined with a proven track record of negotiating favorable outcomes among stakeholders to complex problems and scenarios
- * Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing)
- * Constantly operate a computer
- * Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings
- * Ability to travel for work purposes up to 20%
- * Pragmatic product marketing certification, or similar
- * Experience leading product migration or product integration projects
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