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This role will help students build career awareness, exploration, and readiness through engaging digital experiences that connect classroom learning to future opportunities.\nReporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this individual contributor role will translate product strategy into actionable roadmaps and delivery plans for career-focused offerings while partnering closely with engineering, design, curriculum, research, implementation, sales, marketing, and external partners. The ideal candidate brings hands-on product management experience, experience supporting product launches, and an interest in AI-powered experiences and emerging technologies that can accelerate customer value and business growth.\nAs a Product Manager, you will help drive product outcomes, lead customer discovery for assigned work, identify opportunities to improve the experience, and translate customer needs into scalable solutions that support Discovery Education's mission of preparing learners for tomorrow.\nIn This Role You Will:\nProduct Strategy & Roadmap\nSupport the product strategy, roadmap, and desired outcomes for Career Connect and Discovery Education's emerging careers product portfolio.\nPartner with product leadership to prioritize opportunities and make tradeoffs that balance customer impact, technical feasibility, and business value.\nBuild alignment across stakeholders and cross-functional teams to support successful product delivery and adoption.\nEvaluate existing product architecture, content structures, and user experiences to identify opportunities for improvement, efficiency, and growth.\nDevelop and maintain product roadmaps aligned to priorities, customer needs, technical constraints, and business objectives.\nTranslate strategic goals into clearly defined product initiatives, releases, and measurable outcomes.\nAI-Powered Innovation\nIdentify and help evaluate opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance career exploration, personalization, educator workflows, and student engagement.\nPartner with technical teams to help define AI-enabled product experiences that are responsible, scalable, and aligned with educational outcomes.\nMonitor industry trends and competitive innovations to inform product strategy and differentiation.\nNew Product Introduction\nSupport the development and launch of new career-focused products and features from concept through commercialization.\nCoordinate customer research, validation, pilot programs, and launch planning to support successful market introduction.\nPartner with curriculum, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality experiences that meet user needs and business goals.\nDefine success metrics with product leadership and monitor adoption, engagement, implementation success, customer outcomes, partnership impact, and business performance.\nCustomer & Market Insights\nDevelop a strong understanding of educators, administrators, students, and district leaders.\nUse qualitative and quantitative research, market intelligence, customer feedback, and product analytics to inform product decisions.\nRepresent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle and advocate for customer needs across the organization.\nExperience engaging district administrators, curriculum leaders, and implementation stakeholders to inform product decisions.\nEnablement & Implementation Readiness\nPartner closely with implementation, customer success, sales enablement, and marketing teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption.\nDevelop scalable approaches to onboarding, training, and customer activation.\nSupport go-to-market planning and field readiness efforts by translating product priorities into clear customer value propositions.\nProduct Execution\nOwn backlog prioritization and sprint planning activities in partnership with engineering and design teams.\nClearly articulate detailed product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release scope.\nCoordinate release planning and cross-functional activities to support high-quality product launches.\nHelp balance customer needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities when making product tradeoff recommendations.\nMonitor product performance through KPIs and customer outcomes, identifying opportunities for optimization and growth.\nCollaborate across product teams to ensure seamless user experiences across the Discovery Education ecosystem.\nCore Competencies for Success\nCustomer Focus: Builds a strong understanding of educators, administrators, students, and district leaders; represents the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle; and uses research, feedback, and analytics to translate customer needs into scalable career-focused solutions.\nStrategic Mindset: Connects customer needs, market opportunities, technical constraints, and business goals to shape product strategy, roadmaps, initiatives, releases, and measurable outcomes for Career Connect and the emerging careers portfolio.\nBalances Stakeholders: Builds alignment across product leadership, engineering, design, curriculum, research, implementation, sales, marketing, and external partners; makes thoughtful tradeoff recommendations that balance customer impact, feasibility, adoption, and business value.\nCollaborates: Partners effectively across diverse teams and functions to deliver high-quality product experiences, support go-to-market and implementation readiness, and ensure seamless user experiences across the Discovery Education ecosystem.\nDrives Results: Translates strategy into actionable roadmaps, backlog priorities, sprint plans, product requirements, acceptance criteria, release scope, and success metrics; monitors adoption, engagement, customer outcomes, and product performance to identify opportunities for optimization and growth.\nCredentials & Experience\n3+ years of product management experience, including experience with digital products or platforms.\nExperience contributing to 0-to-1 product development and supporting successful product launches.\nExperience contributing to product strategies and roadmaps tied to measurable customer or business outcomes.\nExperience working with AI-enabled products, personalization technologies, or emerging educational technologies preferred.\nStrong preference for experience serving K-8 education markets.\nExperience collaborating with strategic partners or ecosystem integrations preferred.\nExperience supporting go-to-market, implementation, and customer adoption strategies.\nDemonstrated success working with cross-functional teams in agile product environments; experience with Jira and SaFE agile practices preferred.\nBachelor's degree required.\nLegal right to work in the United States.\nThis role is designed to be hybrid in Charlotte, NC. \nThe hiring range for this position is between $124,400 - $138,250 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 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