Senior Director, Product Management

Overview:

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.

This position, under the general guidance of the Chief Product Officer and Vice President, is responsible for driving and executing the direction, coordination, quality and output of the Product Management team.  This position will be responsible for definition of high-value extensions and enhancements to PowerSchool’s Administration product portfolio. This position will ensure that employees apply incremental delivery principles to working practices, driving the delivery of value through your teams; communicating progress, eliciting feedback and enabling stakeholder reviews for validation in the process. Additionally, this position will provide leadership and guidance to create a multi-functional team of top level, high-performing product leaders. 

The Product Management team is critical in full lifecycle product planning, delivery, and marketing with the end user in mind.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Monitors and drives all performance goals. 
• Coaches and develops employees. 
• Works to increase team efficiency and effectiveness in order to achieve long term goals. 
• Participates in hiring of new team members. 
• Performs any HR related tasks. 
• Drives improvements to organization performance on delivering products by managing the cross functional development scope with Product Managers, Product Owners and Scrum teams. 
• Rapidly scales our product line.  
• Rapidly iterates and constantly improves the platform. 
• Ensures effective rollout of new products across the platform; package and position ideas and products in ways that uniquely appeal to consumers. 
• Manages ongoing feedback loops with learners, partners, enterprises, employees and industry influencers to deliver consumer insights and improve our learner experience and platform services as rapidly and efficiently as possible. 
• Provides strong leadership to the product team through intelligent, clear and inspirational communication and a hands-on, passionate approach to the job. 
• Delivers weekly reports on project status to Senior Management. 
• All other duties as assigned. 

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of prior experience in a product owner, product manager, or senior business analyst role 
• 7+ years of experience in a managerial role 
• Excellent understanding of Agile Values and Scrum Methodology 
• Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment 
• Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments 
• Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions  
• Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment 
• Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) 
• Excellent attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented 
• Excellent knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology practices 
• Excellent problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills. 
• Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering 
• Ability to mentor and coach fellow employees 
• Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science, or equivalent work experience 

PowerSchool offers the following benefits:

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Comprehensive 401(k) plan
• Generous Parental Leave
• Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
• Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $139,600 - $253,700 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; specific geographic location; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accomodations@powerschool.com.