Vice President – Product Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development of curriculum and applications while aligning product strategy with enterprise objectives.

• Take ownership of the strategic product portfolio and manage the execution of the product lifecycle.

• Ensure timely delivery of features and achievement of learning outcomes.

• Serve as the strategic link between the Program Development, Curriculum & Instruction, and Technology teams.

• Ensure that the science of learning, instructional design, and robust evidence of student outcomes inform product design.

• Define and uphold a cohesive, multi-year product lifecycle roadmap.

• Lead and manage product development teams, individual contributors, and departmental resources.

• Recruit, mentor, and coach a highly capable, mission-driven team.

• Manage and optimize the annual departmental budget.

• Foster an outcome-driven culture centered on student development, retention, and engagement with families and educators.

• Own the team’s operating playbook and reinforce best practices in product management.

• Maintain streamlined agile rituals, artifacts, and communication methods with the Project Management Office and agile/scrum facilitators.

• Oversee the development and maintenance of customer-facing technology.

• Guide engineering and product owners on architectural choices, system performance, trade-offs, and build-vs-buy evaluations.

• Ensure that digital software is designed for institutional deployment.

• Uphold student data privacy policies and accessibility standards.

• Align product development initiatives with go-to-market strategies and delivery timelines.

• Design, test, and implement strategic pricing and packaging models.

• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams on launches, pilot recruitment, pricing experiments, and post-launch support.

• Enhance product efficacy through discovery, rapid prototyping, and customer feedback loops.

• Define, measure, and monitor product performance metrics.

• Conduct user testing, cohort analyses, and classroom pilots.

• Lead market mapping and competitive analysis efforts.

• Within the first year, adopt the Pillars and Capabilities decision framework, implement enhancements from a randomized control trial, integrate Program Services into product development, and ensure readiness of the Family App and Program Fidelity App.

• Supervise the Curriculum and Instruction leader, Product Engineering leader, Program Services leader, and four product owners.

• Report directly to the President and participate in the Senior Leadership Team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive product management experience in a dynamic environment.

• A proven history of guiding products from initial strategy through to successful market delivery.

• At least 5 years of direct experience in people management.

• Demonstrated capacity to attract top talent, reorganize teams, and mentor personnel.

• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Proven experience collaborating with educational C-suite-level stakeholders.

• Background in leading or working alongside curriculum development and engineering teams.

• Ability to balance long-term technical viability and scalability with immediate product velocity.

• Experience partnering with Go-to-Market stakeholders to support pilots, state adoptions, and growth strategies driven by sales or products.

• Extensive knowledge of the K-12 educational landscape.

• Strong comprehension of the science of learning, instructional design, and curriculum development principles.

• Proficiency in Agile, Scrum, and Human-Centered Design methodologies.

• Eligibility to work and reside in the United States.

• Willingness to travel 10–20% of the time.

• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 when working in-person at a Springboard facility or participating in in-person programming/events, unless a medical or religious exemption applies.

• Nice to have: Experience in delivering educational services.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance with a cash stipend for those opting out of Springboard coverage; includes PPO and High Deductible/HSA options.

• Fully covered short- and long-term disability insurance.

• 403(b) retirement contributions matched up to 6% of salary after the first twelve months.

• Four weeks (20 days) of annual PTO, available from the beginning of the calendar year.

• 11 federal holidays, two floating holidays, weekdays between December 25th and January 1st, and a birthday holiday.

• Unlimited sick leave.

• Parental Leave: 12 weeks after the first 6 months of employment.

• Marriage Leave: five days.

• Springboard laptop and optional monitor provided.

• Personal and professional development funding of $2,000 per year.

• Employee Assistance Program available for support with stress/anxiety, finance, law, family issues, substance abuse, grief, and more.

• Regular opportunities for discussing individual and organizational development.

• Consistent and structured real-time feedback provided.

• Flexibility for remote work arrangements.

• Travel for quarterly leadership team meetings and annual organization-wide retreats.