Vice President of Product

Vice President of Product

The VP of Product is responsible for managing and guiding the product roadmap overseeing institutional operations and development and providing management to support the product division. This role supports the Product and Software Engineering departments to achieve mission-critical goals ensuring that all functions are aligned to support the companys strategic objectives.

Structured as a fully-remote salaried exempt position. This position will report to the President and CEO.

We have been a 100% remote company since the beginning!This position is eligible to remote work from the following locations: USA.

Who We Are

AOE is a teachers partner for life. We provide art-specific professional development engaging curriculum relevant resources and rigorous masters degree programs.

MISSION: We grow amazing teachers by providing rigorous relevant and engaging learning at every stage of their career.

Position Details

Product Vision & Strategy

• Inform and lead high-level product vision in collaboration with leadership.
• Conduct an extensive needs assessment with both internal and external stakeholders to determine and develop a short and long-term product roadmap.
• Work collaboratively with other departments to build cross-departmental relationships to further expand on sales training and development of the institutions products and services

Institutional Key Performance Indicators

• Ensures organizational plans procedures and controls are employed to execute and attain goals
• Meets annually with Senior Leaders to create analyze and adjust KPIs

Process and Product Management

• Oversee the product life cycle from ideation to release.
• Plan and prioritize what (and when) the product teams will deliver.
• Collaborate with engineering and product design teams to ensure product delivery.
• Build and monitor plans around the ongoing performance of current product offerings.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Supports and encourages the continuous training of team members

Collaboration

• Oversee and direct those involved in the design modification and evaluation of all phases of a specific product or group of products.
• Engage with all internal stakeholders to assess and prioritize their product needs.
• Ensure engagement with the sales marketing and customers to gather and promote the most relevant ideas into features.
• Go-to-market: Lead in engaging cross-functional teams to deliver a complete product experience.

Leadership

• Trains supports and develops the Product and Software Engineering teams
• Leads with a Product mindset and serves as a role model for attracting top talent.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with the various stakeholders internal and external
• Decisive management skills exemplified by a record of courage in the face of adversity and with limited resources
• Proven transparency and commitment to the collaborative process in decision-making that allows for multiple perspectives
• Ability to identify opportunities and transform challenges into innovative solutions and programs that will advance the future of the institution
• Experience with leading the development and use of digital platforms and technology products.
• Ability to create a vision and also execute on the day-to-day implementation.
• Experience working on an Agile development team.
• Ability to concisely break down and communicate complex ideas.
• Sophisticated communication (written and verbal) negotiation problem-solving and collaboration skills to effectively work with other leaders customers and stakeholders to evolve AOEs products.
• Experience with key evaluation metrics that drive prioritization and continued investment decisions within the organization.
• Track record in developing and taking new innovative products to market.
• Ability to identify own and solve problems independently or as part of a team.

Position Requirements

While we have identified specific requirements for this role we acknowledge that not all candidates may possess every requirement listed. We encourage applicants who believe they possess the necessary skills and experience to apply for consideration regardless of whether they meet each requirement to the fullest extent.

Experience

• Product management experience in a SaaS or Cloud-based company.
• 10 years of experience leading digital products across multiple lines of business.
• In-depth knowledge of web systems and architecture design and development.
• Hands-on experience with complex project management and knowledge of various Agile frameworks.
• Experience working in or within K-12 and or Higher Education industry.
• Experience in data analysis and data-driven product design.
• Experience working in a remote capacity is strongly preferred.
• Travel up to 25% is required for this position.
• Ability to view computer screens for significant periods of time use a laptop keyboard with accuracy hear at normal levels and through electronic devices such as laptops earbuds phones and the like.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

• Health dental and vision plans with 100% premium coverage employer HSA contribution and no waiting period (effective 1st month after hire)
• 401K plan with 4% match no waiting or vesting period
• Self-managed PTO (15 days/year encouraged)
• All federal holidays off an end-of-year holiday shutdown
• Monthly mobile stipend
• Home office equipment stipend
• Fully remote flexible schedule
• 8 weeks paid parental leave
• Dependent Care FSA
• General Spending FSA
• Life insurance
• Lifelong Learning Fund for professional development and educational reimbursement
• Free product access (1 FLEX/PRO license to use or gift plus free AOEU grad courses)

For additional information surrounding our offered benefits visit our website.

Compensation

Compensation is commensurate with experience and market. We encourage you to discuss your compensation requirements early in the process.

We look forward to reviewing your application! Thank you for your interest in opportunities with AOE.

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