Leads the end-to-end product development process, ensuring delivery of high-quality end user apps for educators and parents.
Builds strategic vision for productizing analytics capabilities to drive impact across various use cases.
Supports new use case creation by working with internal and external stakeholders to define new requirements and enable required capabilities.
Understands and interprets stakeholder feedback, analyzes user behavior and prioritizes features based on customer needs and organizational objectives.
Manages the product backlog and makes data-driven decisions to optimize resource allocation and ensure predictable and timely releases.
Drives cross-functional collaboration across hardware engineering, data science, software developers, and user experience to ensure initiatives are prioritized against TMW and wearable device leadership objectives.
Facilitates stakeholder meetings and regular reports with leadership to ensure work streams, timelines, and roadmaps are aligned to achieve product and project goals.
Drives collaboration and alignment across other cross-functional teams.
Assesses scope and timelines, prepares project plans, identifies and resolves risk and mitigation to continuously prioritize execution against wearable device product objectives.
Oversees and manages collaborators responsible for various elements of product development to ensure overall project timeliness, managing tradeoffs and stakeholder awareness.
Trains and coaches individual product managers, as needed, in building systems and processes for efficient operations and provides ongoing feedback to improve project management skills and risk-trade-off decision making.
Develops and refines processes to successfully shape and position wearable device for scaling and measurement in early education settings, ensuring that the wearable device interface integrates on-the-ground feedback and fidelity of implementation learnings.
In collaboration with Leadership and others, helps develop strategy for scaling.
Manages employees by establishing annual performance goals, allocating resources, assessing annual performance, and determining individual merit, incentive and/or promotional increases. Provides technical oversight and develops standards, guidelines, and processes for application systems.
Creates plans to translate business requirements into well-designed applications while balancing user and business needs, technical competencies, industry developments, and time constraints.
Advises decisions on project and infrastructure needs, including the evaluation of server technologies, languages, platforms, and frameworks. Develops timelines and project plans for the team.
Formulates and defines specifications for complex installations, maintenance, and upgrades. Identifies and analyzes performance and capacity issues.
Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred QualificationsÂ
Experience:
Prior experience working in product development and software development. â‹
Preferred Competencies
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Excellent organizational skills, including strong attention to detail.
Technical and/or analytics background.
Proven ability to establish and stick to timelines.
Problem-solving skills, including a strong ability to prioritize.
Initiative and independent judgment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to build diverse relationships and manage professional workload with minimal supervision.
Application Documents
Resume/CV (required)
Cover Letter (required)
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