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Over the last decade since our company’s founding, our team has seen first-hand the power of giving students intentionally designed spaces in their learning experience to be autonomous and curious. We have also seen the incredible benefits of using AI technology to shorten feedback loops and help students revise their work before they submit.\nPackback is a pedagogy partner that uses technology as a “means to an end” to shorten feedback loops for students and instructors, improve writing and critical thinking skills, and cultivate student-centered, trust-based educational learning environments.\nAbout the Role\nPackback sits at the intersection of AI and education, and we are hiring a Senior Product Manager to help decide what we build next. You will lead discovery and delivery across several product opportunities at once and bring AI-assisted prototyping and disciplined experimentation into how our product team works.\nAI has made building fast. The harder question is whether we are building the right thing. You will help us test ideas quickly, read results honestly, and change course when users tell us something is not working.\nYou will join a small, empowered product and design team who work side by side with engineers to shape problems and own solutions together. You will have real ownership of what gets built, from first prototype to user adoption. Current work spans AI-integrated assignments, writing, discussions, and data insights, where real instructor and student feedback shapes what we build. Everything we ship exists to help students think critically, write with purpose, and learn more deeply.\nWhat you will do\nDiscovery and delivery\nLead discovery and delivery for multiple opportunities at once, from early research through release and user adoption\nShape what we work on next: bring a clear business case for where time should go, and prioritize and de-prioritize to keep projects on track. \nDefine the problem, success criteria and constraints clearly, then sequence work into releasable phases, and plan releases and timelines \nUser and market research\nTalk with instructors and students regularly, and tell real demand from polite interest\nTrack customer and market shifts, including competitors, and bring concise cases for adding or changing roadmap projects\nAI prototyping and evaluation\nBuild working prototypes with AI tools to test ideas before committing engineering time\nEvaluate our AI features: spot output that is inconsistent, generic, or wrong for the learning context, and explain how to fix it\nExperimentation and outcomes\nDesign experiments with a clear hypothesis, success and stop criteria agreed before work starts, and a plan for how you will read the results.\nDefine outcome metrics up front, and check impact after release\nShare what works so the whole team gets better at testing ideas and measuring results\nCollaboration\nOwn what we build and why, and work with engineers who own more of the final call on how. \nAlign stakeholders across engineering, design, and the business around product goals, and make sure everyone working on a project understands the \"why\"\nPartner with sales, customer success, and marketing so they can tell a compelling story about what we ship, and track adoption after launch\nWhat success looks like\nYou continually explore and shape new opportunities with real input from users and signals from the market, so we decide what to build next based on current evidence\nYou ship small, finished slices of work that bring users value, on a predictable timeline\nYou can measure and report on how our work influenced user behavior and business outcomes\nEvery project ends with an honest readout, including when the evidence says to stop or change course\nSales, customer success, and marketing are ready to tell a compelling story about what you ship\nYou help teammates adopt prototyping and experimentation habits\nRequirements\nRequired Experience\n4+ years of product management at a SaaS company\nA track record of taking features or significant enhancements from research to user adoption, with evidence that you planned for adoption and did not stop at launch\nExperience in higher education or education more broadly (EdTech, institutions, or instruction), and an understanding of what motivates students to do the work\nUser and market research\nUser research skills: you have run interviews or built surveys, and you can tell real demand from polite interest\nAI prototyping and evaluation\nHands-on AI prototyping experience. You can walk us through a prototype you built with AI tools: the problem you were solving, what you learned from it, and what you did with the result. \nAI literacy and judgment: you can spot weak AI behavior, explain the gap, and propose an effective fix\nExperimentation and outcomes\nExperience designing and running experiments, and enough statistical fluency to know when a result is real \nData fluency: comfortable with SQL or BigQuery-style analysis, or AI-assisted analysis, to read results yourself\nIntellectual honesty: you stay attached to outcomes, not to your original idea. You end projects the evidence does not support and report negative results fully.\nTechnical acumen and tools\nTechnical acumen: you understand how software is built and shipped, ask engineers good questions, and stay curious about how our systems and data work\nExperience with an issue tracker (Jira, Linear, or Azure DevOps) and an AI assistant (Claude or similar). We use Jira and Claude, and we will teach you our tools.\nCollaboration\nClear written and verbal communication, and a collaborative approach with engineers and designers\nNice to haves\nDirect EdTech experience\nExperience building, tuning, or evaluating a shipped AI-powered feature, including ongoing evaluation\nAn understanding of how institutional buying differs from instructor adoption\nAdditional Information:\nSponsorship: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S without the need for sponsorship. Packback does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.\nLocation: Currently we are only able to hire from these states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA, WI\nSalary: $130,000-$150,000 annually, with an annual bonus target of 15%\nBenefits\nWhy work at Packback?\nBuild a meaningful career while building the future of education as a part of a company culture that fosters the growth, safety, and creativity of its employees.\nIntentional Culture\nPackback knows that the single most important part of any company is its people. We take building and maintaining a conscious and intentional culture of open communication, curiosity, and leadership extremely seriously. 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