Product Manager, Assessment - Amplify

About Amplify

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents.

Job Description

As a Product Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams of engineers, writers, designers, interaction developers, learning scientists, and marketers to dream up, design, and deliver transformative classroom experiences. This role includes ownership of both user-facing features and the backend services and APIs that support them.

Responsibilities

• Own a product area — Take full accountability for a specific area of the product, defining a 6-12 month roadmap that balances new feature development, user requests, technical debt, and content debt.
• Champion your customers — Represent your users in all phases of product development, drawing on insights from customer discovery work to pinpoint gaps in quality, and proactively address issues to enhance user satisfaction and engagement.
• Be the expert in your area — Know the market, use case, and capabilities of your product, and monitor performance in the field.
• Gain market intelligence — Research and communicate competitive programs, identifying gaps, new opportunities, and emerging trends to inform initiative ideation and design.
• Translate strategy into actionable plans — Take the "north star" vision from leadership and break it down into actionable initiatives. Conduct initiative research, develop initiative concepts and plans to deliver product goals. Create detailed release/execution quarterly plans with feature/task estimates in partnership with cross-functional team.
• Deliver results — Set quarterly OKRs in collaboration with your team and GPM/Director. Own feature-level key results, establish and monitor performance metrics—including technical health indicators—for your features and track progress against them.
• Cross-functional leadership — Develop a deep partnership with your engineering and design leads to navigate technical/pedagogical/physical constraints and UX challenges, ensuring the team delivers solutions that are valuable, delightful, and feasible.
• Own end-to-end product delivery — Lead your team to deliver initiatives, from ideation and requirement gathering to launch and post-launch iteration. Own requirements and the prioritized backlog, making timely trade-off decisions.
• Lead product execution — Lead and participate in product development practices for your team, and ensure all blockers are resolved within specified SLAs.
• Implement AI solutions — Identify specific workflows where AI can enhance teacher effectiveness, increase student engagement, or improve team efficiency, partnering with engineers to bring these features to life.
• Communicate with precision — Serve as the primary point of contact for your product area, providing clear updates to stakeholders across the organization regarding progress, trade-offs, and timelines.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in product management, ideally within EdTech, SaaS, consumer tech, or a complex B2B2C environment.
• Experience with technically complex products involving backend services, APIs, or platform infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required or combination of education and direct experience (advanced degree preferred).
• A proven track record of shipping features from concept to launch and iterating based on post-launch feedback.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience in an Agile environment, with a deep understanding of sprint cycles, user story mapping, and discovery techniques.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Empathy-first mindset with a deep respect for the challenges facing educators.