Senior Product Manager

At Contour were reshaping education one student at a time.

Since 2020 over 10000 students have trusted Contour to guide their academic journey and weve grown to over 400 team members. Weve produced hundreds of 99 ATARs tutored the World-Record UCAT scorer and placed more students into medical school than any school in Australia.

Our growth is a testament to the simple philosophy: Put the student first always. Everything we design from our world-class tutor-training programs to our purpose-built campuses exists to help students master content faster perform with confidence and even rekindle the joy of learning.

Contour is a group of three brands united by one goal: to give every student the best chance to achieve their full potential:

• Contour Education: Reshaping how students master their high school subjects with small-group tutoring structured resources and 1-on-1 support across Maths Science and English.
• Contour Medprep: Reshaping medical preparation with a proven step-by-step pathway through the UCAT interviews and admissions led by a team of 100 medical students.
• Contour TestPrep: Reshaping test preparation starting with the selective entry exam through rigorous tutoring mock exams and data-driven feedback to give students a decisive advantage.

This is Contour. Built by students for students.

As our first Senior Product Manager you will own the product practice and partner with engineering to build what comes next.

• Own the Vision & Roadmap: Set where the product goes over the next one to three years turn it into a sequenced roadmap across the learning portal apps enrolment and tutor tools and decide what gets built what waits and what gets killed. You own the direction and the result accountable for what we build why and whether it moved the needle for students.
• Be the Eyes & Ears: Get close to students parents and tutors and know the wider EdTech landscape just as well. Run the research sit in on sessions read the support tickets and understand what students could get elsewhere and where the technology is heading. Dont outsource understanding the user.
• Define & Prioritise the Work: Turn the roadmap into specs the team can build from user stories acceptance criteria edge cases and make the hard prioritisation calls with engineering. You bring the user and business case; they bring the technical reality; the trade-offs get made in the open.
• Partner with Engineering to Build: Work hand-in-glove with the Engineering Lead owning scope sequencing and launch readiness together: two people one outcome. You can prototype an idea on your own then use AI to move faster with real opinions on where AI deepens the student experience and where its just theatre.
• Design the Experience: Own design end-to-end until we hire a dedicated designer so strong design instincts arent optional. Care about how it feels not just whether it works.
• Ship Measure & Iterate: Ship small and often get a real version in front of students read the data and iterate rather than polishing v1 for six months. Define what success looks like instrument it and own the launch handoff with marketing and customer experience so what ships actually lands.
• Align the Organisation: Tell the story of where the product is going and keep everyone pulling the same way founders academics marketing sales and campus ops. Be straight when the answer is no.

Set the Bar & Build the Function: Establish what great product looks like at Contour and as we scale build out a product team and practice from the ground up.

• A Proven Senior PM: You have 5 years in product management with a track record of owning real products end-to-end in a high-growth B2C or consumer environment. Youve shipped things people actually use.
• An Owner Not an Executor: You have a full-ownership mentality. Youre just as comfortable setting product strategy as you are writing the spec prototyping the flow and chasing the bug. You dont wait to be told whats broken.
• A True Partner to Engineering: You know how to earn an engineers trust. You understand enough of the technical reality to scope well prototype with AI and make trade-offs you can both defend. You see the Engineering Lead as a partner in product not just a build resource.
• A Discovery-Driven Builder: Youre obsessed with the user. You talk to them watch them and let what you learn change your mind. You can tell the difference between what people say they want and what theyll actually use.
• Data-Fluent: Youre highly analytical and comfortable defining metrics reading product analytics and turning numbers into decisions. You know the difference between engagement that flatters and outcomes that matter.
• AI-Native With Judgment: Youre fluent in the craft tools a PM builds with Figma and the rest and just as fluent with AI on top of them. But you know the tools are the easy part. You read AI output critically instead of taking it at face value and you build with probabilistic systems evals and guardrails rather than just prompting them.
• You Have Taste: In a world where anyone can generate a passable feature in an afternoon taste is the moat. You feel the difference between something thats fine and something thats right and you sweat the details that make a product feel considered rather than churned out. Youre allergic to AI slop and youd rather ship one thing students love than ten they tolerate.
• A Strong Communicator: You can write a crisp spec tell a compelling product story to the leadership team and bring a sceptical room along with you. You influence without authority.
• Ambitious & Hands-On: You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a significant impact and youd rather ship and iterate than write documentation for months.

Bonus Points: An engineering or technical background is a nice-to-have (you dont need to code day-to-day but being able to read it and talk credibly with engineers helps). Experience in education EdTech LMS or consumer-app products or scaling a product function as a first PM hire.

• High Impact: This isnt a keep the lights on role. You will be the architect of the product thousands of students use to learn with your work directly impacting their results and their relationship with learning.
• Ownership & Autonomy: Youll have the freedom and trust to build the product function your way in direct collaboration with the co-founders the Engineering Lead and the leadership team.
• Clear Path for Growth: This is a pivotal foundational role with significant growth opportunities. As the organisation scales nationally and our product function grows this position is designed to evolve toward senior product leadership with the potential to become a Head of Product in the future.
• Competitive Package: We offer a competitive salary for top-tier talent and a flexible hybrid environment where we value output not hours at a desk. Our supportive benefits include an EAP birthday/loyalty leave and lifestyle allowances.
• A Vision to Believe In: Were ambitious passionate and on a mission to reshape education in Australia (and beyond). Our goal is for Contour to become the most trusted name in tutoring nationwide.

The product you build should feel like Contour the moment a student opens it. Thats the bar.

If this challenge sparks something in you your drive to build a product that changes outcomes and to take your career to the next level this is the role for you! Feel free to reach out directly to if you have any questions :)

Ready to make a real impact Here is our application process:

1. Submit your application.
2. Shortlisted candidates will complete a video interview and a case study-based assessment.
3. Suitable candidates will then be invited for a panel interview.

Required Experience:

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