Vice President – Product Development
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Vice President leading curriculum, apps, and product strategy for Springboard Collaborative’s home-school education programs. Driving learning outcomes, team performance, technology delivery, and market adoption.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee curriculum and application development and align product strategy with enterprise goals
- Own the strategic product portfolio and oversee product lifecycle execution
- Drive on-time feature delivery and learning outcomes
- Act as the strategic bridge between Program Development, Curriculum & Instruction, and Technology teams
- Ensure science of learning, instructional design, and rigorous evidence of student outcomes drive product design
- Define and maintain a unified, multi-year product lifecycle roadmap
- Lead and manage product development teams, individual contributors, and departmental resources
- Recruit, mentor, and coach a highly skilled, mission-driven team
- Manage and optimize the annual departmental budget
- Champion an outcome-driven culture focused on student development, retention, and family/educator engagement
- Own the team operating playbook and reinforce product management best practices
- Maintain lightweight agile rituals, artifacts, and communication patterns with the Project Management Office and agile/scrum facilitators
- Oversee development and maintenance of customer-facing technology
- Lead engineering and product owners on architecture decisions, system performance, trade-offs, and build-vs-buy evaluations
- Ensure digital software is architected for institutional deployment
- Enforce student data privacy policies and accessibility standards
- Align product development with go-to-market initiatives and delivery
- Design, experiment with, and deploy strategic pricing and packaging models
- Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success on launches, pilot recruitment, pricing tests, and post-launch enablement
- Drive product efficacy through product discovery, rapid prototyping, and customer feedback loops
- Define, instrument, and track product performance metrics
- Maintain user testing, cohort analyses, and classroom pilots
- Lead market mapping and competitive analysis
- In the first year, adopt the Pillars and Capabilities decision framework, execute improvements from a randomized control trial, integrate Program Services into product development, and ensure Family App and Program Fidelity App readiness
- Supervise the Curriculum and Instruction leader, Product Engineering leader, Program Services leader, and four product owners
- Report to the President and serve on the Senior Leadership Team
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive product management experience in a fast-paced environment
- Proven track record of driving products from initial strategy through successful market delivery
- 5+ years of direct people management experience
- Proven ability to attract top-tier talent, restructure teams, and mentor teams
- Impeccable verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated experience working directly with educational C-suite-level stakeholders
- Experience leading or collaborating with curriculum development and engineering teams
- Ability to balance long-term technical feasibility and scalability with near-term product velocity
- Experience partnering with Go-to-Market stakeholders to support pilots, state adoptions, and sales-led or product-led growth motions
- Deep knowledge of the K-12 educational landscape
- Strong understanding of the science of learning, instructional design, and curriculum development
- Proficiency in Agile, Scrum, and Human-Centered Design frameworks
- Eligible to work and reside in the United States
- Willingness to travel 10–20%
- Fully vaccinated against COVID-19 when working in person at a Springboard facility or participating in in-person programming/events, unless medically or religiously exempt
- Nice to have: Experience with the delivery of educational services
Benefits:
- Medical insurance with a cash stipend for those who waive Springboard coverage; PPO and High Deductible/HSA options
- Fully covered short- and long-term disability coverage
- 403(b) retirement contributions matched up to 6% of salary after the first twelve months
- Four weeks (20 days) annual PTO, available at the start of the calendar year
- 11 federal holidays, two floating holidays, weekdays between December 25th and January 1st, and birthday holiday
- Unlimited sick days
- Parental Leave: 12 weeks after the first 6 months of employment
- Marriage Leave: five days
- Springboard laptop and optional monitor
- Personal and professional development funding of $2,000/year
- Employee Assistance Program supporting stress/anxiety, finance, law, family, substance abuse, grief, and more
- Regular opportunities to discuss individual and organizational development
- Consistent and structured real-time feedback
- Remote work arrangement
- Travel for quarterly leadership team and annual organization-wide retreats
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