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This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll set direction for your domain, make the calls on priorities and tradeoffs, and be accountable for whether our products deliver for institutions, students, and funders. You’ll work closely with educational institutions, Engineering, Data Science, and Implementation, and you’ll help raise the bar for product practice across the team.\nCore Responsibilities\nStrategy and Ownership\nSet the multi-quarter product strategy and roadmap for your domain, and own the tradeoffs: what we build, what we defer, and why. Ground decisions in user evidence, technical dependencies, resourcing, and impact.\nLead user discovery with users and teams to ground priorities in evidence.\nOwn product decisions for your domain with minimal oversight. Escalate only portfolio-level or cross-domain conflicts to the Director.\nShape product direction with Engineering so architecture choices reflect long-term product vision, scalability, and user needs.\nTurn the institutional needs and implementation challenges raised by partners into a coherent strategic product direction, not a backlog of requests.\nProduct Delivery\nDefine what success looks like for each release and partner with the Technical Project Management function.\nParticipate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to keep the team’s work tied to product priorities.\nWork with the Project Management owners to set realistic commitments with partners, and lead conversations with partners and stakeholders when scope or priorities need to change.\nPartner with Design and Engineering to build intuitive experiences for data management and system configuration.\nDefine integration requirements with third-party tools.\nMeasurement and Impact\nDefine success metrics for your domain, covering adoption, usage, and impact on student outcomes, and use them to drive roadmap decisions.\nBuild reporting that shows value to institutional partners, internal leaders, and funders, including grant reporting.\nLeadership and Influence\nContribute to portfolio strategy with the Director, Product Management, including cross-product initiatives and investment decisions.\nRepresent your domain to donors, funders, and partner leadership by presenting progress, impact, and roadmap.\nAlign Data Science, Engineering, Implementation, and Program teams around shared priorities, and resolve competing asks among them.\nCoach and mentor peers, and lead improvements to how the product team runs discovery, prioritization, and decision documentation.\nLead go-to-market readiness for your domain, including documentation, training materials, and partner onboarding.\nQualifications\nRequired\nDeep alignment with DataKind's mission and values, and demonstrated commitment to educational equity and data-driven social impact\n6+ years of product management experience with Agile methodologies, including end-to-end ownership of a product line or domain from discovery through launch and scale for enterprise software\n2+ years of experience with data infrastructure, backend systems, or B2B SaaS platforms, with a solid grasp of data ingestion, ETL, cloud storage, and API design\nExperience in the Edtech or open source space\nWorking proficiency with SQL and Git workflows\nA track record of independently setting product strategy and roadmap, and of making scope and sequencing decisions under ambiguity\nExperience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams without direct authority\nExperience representing a product to external audiences such as partners, customers, or funders\nExperience mentoring other product managers or improving a team’s product practices\nA track record of turning requirements from complex, multi-stakeholder environments into clear specs, and of explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences\nExperience using metrics to drive product decisions and demonstrate impact\nPreferred\nKnowledge of data privacy and security requirements, particularly FERPA compliance and student data protection\nExperience with API product management and developer-facing tools\nBackground in social impact measurement and working with mission-driven organizations\nUnderstanding of AI/ML applications in education and student support systems\nExperience working with nonprofit organizations or grant-funded initiatives\nAbout DataKind\nAt DataKind, we believe in the transformative power of data science and AI to create a more promising future. Since our founding in 2012, we've been at the forefront of designing scalable, data-driven tools that address some of the world's toughest challenges-ranging from frontline health, humanitarian action, climate and environment, economic opportunity, education, and more. As both a product innovator and a movement catalyst, we set new standards in the social sector, empowering organizations to harness the full potential of data science and AI while putting communities first.\nWhy Work with DataKind\nAt DataKind, we believe that people are the most important asset to delivering on our mission. As a people-first remote organization, we offer the following for all our employees:\nFlexibility and time off. Enjoy genuine flexibility that goes beyond adjustable hours. We build in shared time off, organization-wide recharge days, bi-weekly meeting-free days, and flexible PTO (with a minimum of 20 vacation days encouraged annually).\nComprehensive Wellness Support. We care for your total wellbeing with 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees (72% for dependents), a wellness reimbursement program for the activities and purchases that matter to you, and 12 weeks paid parental leave when you need it most.\nA Culture of Growth. Every team member receives professional development funding each year, alongside mentorship and advancement opportunities. We invest in your future with a 401(k) plan with 5% employer matching.\nMeaningful Connection. Despite being distributed across time zones, we value being able to come together in person for conferences, strategic planning, and at our annual staff retreat.\nLiving our Values. 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