{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bc4fde8780206158366d398e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bc4fde8780206158366d398e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bc4fde8780206158366d398e","title":"Director of Product Management","description":"About ImpacterImpacter is transforming how K–12 school districts use data, professional learning, and non-academic measurement to improve educational outcomes.We build AI-enabled SaaS solutions designed for real school environments, helping district and state education leaders turn complex student voice, durable skills, behavioral health, and school-culture data into actionable strategies that strengthen student belonging, readiness, wellness, and academic success.Impacter is entering an important stage of growth, supported by significant state and national momentum.National Assessment Leadership — ETS PartnershipAs a primary skills-measurement partner for Educational Testing Service (ETS), Impacter supports durable skills and Portrait of a Graduate (PoG) assessment initiatives, including work connected to CAASPP in California and state frameworks in North Carolina, Washington, Missouri, and beyond.Statewide Behavioral Health — $9M BHPM InitiativeIn partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education and supported by a $9 million California Behavioral Health Commission grant, Impacter is helping co-develop California's K–12 Behavioral Health Performance Management system to measure student wellness, belonging, and related outcomes at scale.As we continue to grow, we are seeking a Director of Product Management to build the leadership layer necessary to turn our expanding product portfolio, AI capabilities, partnerships, and market opportunities into a cohesive product strategy.The OpportunityThis is a newly created leadership role with responsibility for bringing together Impacter's product portfolio, people, priorities, and roadmap under a unified product-management discipline.The Director of Product Management will lead and develop a team of Product Managers and product professionals while working closely with executive leadership, engineering, AI development, design, customer-facing teams, and education partners.We are looking for someone who has moved beyond managing an individual product or feature set and has experience answering the larger questions:What should we build? Why should we build it? How do our products work together? How do we prioritize investment? And how do we translate that strategy into disciplined execution and measurable business and customer outcomes?The successful candidate will combine portfolio-level strategic thinking, strong people leadership, technical fluency, and execution discipline.What You Will OwnProduct Portfolio Strategy & RoadmapOwn and evolve a cohesive multi-product strategy and product roadmap aligned with Impacter's company objectives, customer needs, partnerships, and growth prioritiesConnect individual products, capabilities, data assets, and AI initiatives into an integrated product portfolio rather than a collection of independent featuresTranslate company strategy into clear product priorities, investment decisions, sequencing, and measurable outcomesEstablish frameworks for evaluating customer needs, market opportunities, technical feasibility, competitive differentiation, and commercial impactPartner with executive leadership to determine where Impacter should invest, accelerate, simplify, integrate, or discontinue product initiativesMaintain alignment between long-term product vision and near-term deliveryProduct Leadership & Team DevelopmentLead, mentor, and develop a growing team of mid-to-senior Product Managers and product professionalsCreate clear ownership, accountability, decision rights, expectations, and career development across the product organizationRecruit and onboard additional product talent as the organization scalesEstablish a high-accountability product culture built around clarity, collaboration, customer impact, measurable results, and continuous improvementImplement consistent product-management operating rhythms, including planning, prioritization, roadmap reviews, product reviews, and retrospectivesBuild clear KPIs and product performance metrics that allow leadership to understand product adoption, engagement, outcomes, and business impactAI Product Strategy & Technical FluencyHelp shape Impacter's strategy for incorporating AI, LLMs, intelligent workflows, and agentic capabilities into its productsTranslate business and customer opportunities into practical requirements that engineering and AI teams can architect and executeWork comfortably with AI engineers, technical architects, developers, and external technical partnersUnderstand the fundamentals of LLM integration, APIs, data workflows, prompt and model orchestration, agentic workflows, evaluation, reliability, and responsible AI deploymentBalance innovation and speed with product quality, data privacy, security, reliability, and responsible use—particularly within K–12 environmentsEvaluate emerging AI capabilities and determine where they create meaningful customer value rather than introducing technology for technology's sakeExecution & Cross-Functional LeadershipTurn product strategy into clear, executable roadmaps and operating plansPartner closely with engineering and technical leaders to balance scope, resources, timelines, dependencies, and technical constraintsCreate stronger coordination across Product, Engineering, AI, Sales, Customer Success, Implementation, and executive leadershipImprove visibility into product priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and decisionsEstablish disciplined processes for product discovery, requirements, prioritization, development, release, measurement, and iterationRepresent the product organization in executive-level strategic discussions and major customer or partner conversationsWhat We're Looking ForWe are seeking an experienced product leader who has successfully transitioned from owning products to leading product organizations and portfolios.Required Experience8+ years of progressive product-management experience, including meaningful leadership responsibilityExperience within K–12 education, EdTech, assessment, education data, learning platforms, student measurement, or adjacent education technology marketsDemonstrated experience leading multiple products, product lines, or a complex SaaS product portfolioExperience developing portfolio-level product strategy and translating that strategy into executable roadmapsProven success hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing Product ManagersExperience creating product operating systems, KPIs, accountability structures, prioritization frameworks, and roadmap processesStrong SaaS product-management background with experience bringing complex technology products from concept through launch, adoption, and ongoing optimizationDemonstrated ability to work closely with engineering and technical teams on technically sophisticated productsStrong understanding of modern AI technologies, including LLMs, AI-enabled workflows, integrations, and emerging agentic architecturesAbility to communicate effectively with technical teams while translating technical capabilities into customer and business valueStrong executive communication, decision-making, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skillsExperience building AI-enabled SaaS products using sensitive or complex datasetsHighly ValuedFamiliarity with education assessment, Portrait of a Graduate, durable skills, student voice, behavioral health, or whole-child measurementExperience operating in a growth-stage organization where processes and structures are still being builtExperience balancing enterprise customer requirements with the need to maintain a scalable product platformUnderstanding of responsible AI, data privacy, security, and governance within education or other regulated environmentsThe Leadership ProfileTechnical and product-management credentials are important, but this role also requires a particular kind of leader.What Success Looks LikeDuring the first year, the Director of Product Management will be expected to:Establish a clear, cohesive product portfolio strategy tied to Impacter's business objectivesCreate an integrated roadmap across Impacter's major products and initiativesEstablish clear ownership and accountability across the product organizationImplement measurable product KPIs and a consistent product operating cadenceStrengthen collaboration among Product, Engineering, AI, Customer Success, Sales, and leadershipDevelop and mentor the existing product team while identifying future organizational needsEstablish a disciplined approach for evaluating and deploying AI capabilities across the platformImprove the organization's ability to move from market insight → product decision → development → launch → measurable customer outcomeWhat We OfferCompetitive base salary of $180,000 – $220,000Comprehensive 401(k), health, dental, and vision benefitsFlexible remote work environmentSignificant opportunity to shape the product organization and influence company strategyThe opportunity to work at the intersection of education, data, assessment, behavioral health, and artificial intelligenceA high-impact role helping build technology designed to meaningfully improve outcomes for students and school communitiesWhy ImpacterThis is an opportunity to join Impacter at a consequential point in its growth.The foundation is already being built: major education partnerships, statewide initiatives, meaningful customer problems, proprietary capabilities, and an expanding AI-enabled technology platform.The next challenge is bringing those pieces together.The Director of Product Management will have the opportunity to architect the product-management organization, unify the portfolio, develop the team, and help determine what Impacter becomes next.","company":"Impacter Pathway","rawCompany":"impacter pathway","city":"Springfield","state":"MA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-06T04:34:41.519Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9032.00","title":"Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary","slug":"education-administrators-kindergarten-through-secondary"},{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"},{"code":"11-3051.00","title":"Industrial 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And how do we translate that strategy into disciplined execution and measurable business and customer outcomes?The successful candidate will combine portfolio-level strategic thinking, strong people leadership, technical fluency, and execution discipline.What You Will OwnProduct Portfolio Strategy & RoadmapOwn and evolve a cohesive multi-product strategy and product roadmap aligned with Impacter's company objectives, customer needs, partnerships, and growth prioritiesConnect individual products, capabilities, data assets, and AI initiatives into an integrated product portfolio rather than a collection of independent featuresTranslate company strategy into clear product priorities, investment decisions, sequencing, and measurable outcomesEstablish frameworks for evaluating customer needs, market opportunities, technical feasibility, competitive differentiation, and commercial impactPartner with executive leadership to determine where Impacter should invest, accelerate, simplify, 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SaaS product portfolioExperience developing portfolio-level product strategy and translating that strategy into executable roadmapsProven success hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing Product ManagersExperience creating product operating systems, KPIs, accountability structures, prioritization frameworks, and roadmap processesStrong SaaS product-management background with experience bringing complex technology products from concept through launch, adoption, and ongoing optimizationDemonstrated ability to work closely with engineering and technical teams on technically sophisticated productsStrong understanding of modern AI technologies, including LLMs, AI-enabled workflows, integrations, and emerging agentic architecturesAbility to communicate effectively with technical teams while translating technical capabilities into customer and business valueStrong executive communication, decision-making, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skillsExperience building AI-enabled 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