Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager
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Prodigy Education is a global leader in gamebased learning. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning motivating more than 20 million students a year to practice standardsaligned math and English. More than 800000 teachers use Prodigy as a free instructional tool. Fun motivating and researchbased Prodigy is the EdTech platform students actually ask to use. Visit to learn more.
As Prodigy embarks on its productled growth journey we are seeking a Senior Product Manager who thrives in highautonomy highimpact environments. You will help lead the strategy and of our most important PLG initiatives with specific emphasis on our groundbreaking State Challenge Math tournament. You will be responsible for driving scalable acquisition activation and engagement strategies that tap into our massive K8 user base of students teachers and parents.
This is not a role for passive roadmap maintainersyou will own the entire State Challenge PLG lifecycle from ideation to gotomarket you will work crossfunctionally to design viral loops and how to expand our existing freemium strategies. In addition to this you will develop and execute other growth experiments that accelerate our mission to help every student in the world love learning. While this roles primary focus is expanding our State Challenge you will also lend your expertise to our other PLG initiatives through collaborative planning and recommendations from your experience as a PLG practitioner.
Your Impact
Strategy & Ownership
Help define and lead Prodigys PLG roadmap across teacher and classroom growth loops using State Challenges as your primary lever in this space.
Serve as the strategic driver behind PLG initiatives like the State Challenge and how it interacts and grows with our other initiatives like the Lead Teacher program and inproduct referrals.
Design and validate growth loops that increase user acquisition activation retention and monetization.
Build conviction behind the most important investment areas balancing shortterm wins with longterm vision.
Plan a future state where Prodigys various PLG initiatives come together to produce a whole greater than the sum of their individual parts by answering the question how do these initiatives not only fit together but boost each other
& Experimentation
Analyze cohort behavior to find dropoff points and growth opportunities within user funnels.
Incorporate both user insights and data to uncover friction and drive better activation experiences.
Design and launch highvelocity A/B tests and experiments using clear hypotheses and success metrics.
Team Collaboration & Influence
Act as the PLG expert within the company mentoring others and sharing frameworks playbooks and best practices.
Partner closely with Marketing Education and Game to align on gotomarket campaign and engagement tactics.
Collaborate crossfunctionally across Product Engineering Data and Teacher Experience teams.
Help define what great looks like for PLG at Prodigy.
You bring curiosity and a mindset geared toward learning along with the expertise to share your knowledge and a readiness to explore new and trending ideas
Measurement & Impact
Own northstar metrics for your initiatives and clearly articulate their impact on companylevel goals.
Share results learnings and recommendations with senior leadership.
Build and evolve scalable PLG tracking and reporting infrastructure in partnership with Data.
About You
You have 5 years of product management experience with a minimum of 2 years directly focused on productled growth.
You have handson experience leading highimpact PLG programs in B2B2C B2C or EdTech environments.
You think like a scientistyou create hypotheses experiment methodically and embrace what the data tells you.
You know how to design and optimize growth loops not just growth hacks.
You can zoom out to strategy but love rolling up your sleeves to deliver userfacing value.
You understand how to drive growth when your end users arent your buyers (e.g. studentfacing features that benefit teacher acquisition).
You can identify power users and turn them into champions communities or growth levers.
You thrive in ambiguity and have a track record of turning loosely defined opportunities into real impact.
Bonus Points For:
Experience with freemium business models usergenerated virality or user to user referrals.
Familiarity with EdTech ecosystems particularly involving teachers students and parents.
Background in competitive community loyalty or gamification mechanics (e.g. running schoolwide challenges).
Data fluency in tools like Amplitude Mixpanel or SQL for funnel analysis and growth loop measurement.
Why Prodigy
Join a missiondriven company helping millions of kids love learning.
Be a core part of our first and biggest PLG initiatives.
Work with autonomy and influence across a highimpact crossfunctional team.
Help define the future of PLG at a company with tens of millions of users and massive untapped potential.
Success in This Role Means
Driving significant growth in teacher signups student engagement and classroom usage.
Launching successful growth loops that contribute to sustained user and revenue growth.
Becoming the goto expert on PLG strategy at Prodigy informing future investments across product areas.
Working at Prodigy
Be part of a missiondriven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning! At Prodigy Education your work positively impacts the lives of millions of students and teachers worldwide.
Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members so you grow as we do. Youll also work on awardwinning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st8th.
We understand that a thriving team is at the core of our success. So on top of an inspirational mission and rewarding work our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial physical and mental wellbeing.
Its not just about the work though; its about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: Prodigys secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving. Check it outhere.
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Prodigy Math is used by almost one million teachers a year and was named the most popular supplemental education platform in classrooms in the United States! Our products have also won numerous consumer awards including the Moms Choice Award Parent and Teacher Choice Awards and National Parenting Product Award.
Come as you are. We believe the power of our collective potential will transform education. We are building towards a diverse inclusive and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people from all underrepresented groups including (but not limited to) people of any gender age or religion members of the LGBTQIA2 community BIPOC and other underrepresented races and nationalities people with disabilities veterans and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of Prodigy Education. If you feel like you dont have all the qualifications for this position and are willing to use your initiative to learn the rest wed still love for you to apply!
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005 (AODA). Prodigy Education will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation please notify us at and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
