Product Manager, Digital

Open Up Resources is a publisher of high-quality open educational resources in core content areas, with a vision of providing teachers with the tools to engage students in liberating educational experiences. 

Open Up Resources’ portfolio seeks to include the highest-quality PK-12 curricula, with Green ratings by EdReports, validation from other respected entities, embedded supports for English Learners and Students with Disabilities, culturally relevant pedagogy, and effective professional learning. 

Open Up Resources is leading a transformation in the instructional materials market by becoming an anti-racist organization and infusing every program, partnership, and practice with this intentionality so that our curriculum can catalyze anti-racist norms, structures, practices, and policies in education and society.

We are seeking a forward thinking Digital Product Manager to help bring a growing number of superb, openly licensed Math and ELA curricula to K–12 schools across the country. This role will focus on translating our curricula courses to digital environments and platforms, focusing on maximizing the features available while retaining the integrity of the content. You will work with our Product and Academics, Equity, and Social Justice teams to achieve these results. 

Our organization is driven by our social justice mission to put high-quality curricula in front of as many students and teachers as possible. 

Requirements

• Work with stakeholders and the Director of Product to implement a comprehensive digital platform strategy to include partnerships and proprietary options.
• Conduct market research to identify emerging trends, competitive landscape, and potential opportunities for collaboration in the education technology space.
• Evaluate potential vendor partners on their value to users and alignment with company mission, vision and objectives.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key external partners and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain expert knowledge and documentation of our curricula in digital environments.
• Work closely with the product management and engineering teams to integrate digital offerings and Open Up Resources’ print products.
• Identify, define and prioritize new and existing digital  features based on value and partner capabilities.
• Communicate with stakeholders about the value, progress and challenges of deliverables.
• Participate in acceptance testing, and onsite visits to ensure products are valuable and usable.
• Analyze feedback, metrics and market conditions to inform product development and prioritizations.
• Communicate with sales, marketing and professional learning teams about messaging and positioning to ensure successful product launch.
• Partner with Math and ELA Product Managers to develop best practices on key work streams associated with digital and print regarding content sync across platforms and mediums. 

Ethics and Integrity: Behave in a fair and ethical manner toward peers, partners, and customers; instill mutual trust and confidence; acts with honesty and integrity.

Planning, Organizing and Goal Setting: Demonstrates the ability to organize people and tasks; develops realistic action plans while being sensitive to time constraints and resource availability; defines realistic, specific goals and objectives; prioritizes objectives.

Diversity: Understands that each individual is unique and celebrates individual differences including race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, veteran status, education, training, position, level of authority, seniority, full-time or part-time status.

Collaboration: Cultivates a positive partner and customer service relationship, and fosters two-way communication; delivers products that exceed or meet customer expectations.

Continuous Improvement: Continuously seeks opportunities for innovative approaches to address organizational opportunities.

Solution Oriented: Able to take action in solving problems, using reason and a systematic approach.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with a virtual environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent demonstrated experience.

• 3-5 years of experience with content or learning management systems.
• Background in education or educational technology required.  

• Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing relevant stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to foster a positive remote team environment. 

Benefits

• At Open Up Resources, we believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
• We are seeking candidates who have lived experience related to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• We are a virtual organization with headquarters in the California Bay Area. 
• This is a benefited, full-time, exempt position with a salary range of $90k - $120k annually. 

Our mission is to increase equity in education by making excellent, top-rated curricula freely available to districts.

We provide our superb curricula to districts at no cost by publishing them as Open Educational Resources.

When schools and districts adopt our free curricula, we provide opportunities to reinvest the savings in essential supports, from professional development to printed materials.

We believe we cannot successfully achieve our mission and help as many children and teachers as possible in this country if we do not intentionally strive to incorporate these values into everything we do:

- Kindness

- Candor

- Physical, Mental and Emotional Well-being

- Learning and Growth

- Achieving Our Mission

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