Manager, Product Management
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.
Overview
About PowerSchoolAt PowerSchool, we power education for students around the world. As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software, we support the full education ecosystem-from the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators, students, and families.
Team Overview
Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool's product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.
This position, under the general guidance of the VP, is responsible for driving and executing the direction, coordination, quality and output of the PMO team. This position will be responsible for definition of high-value extensions and enhancements to PowerSchool’s Administration product portfolio. This position will ensure that employeesapply incremental delivery principles to working practices, driving the delivery of value through your teams; communicating progress, eliciting feedback and enabling stakeholder reviews for validation in the process. Additionally, this position will provide leadership and guidance to create a multi-functional team of top level, high-performing product leaders.
Responsibilities
Description
The Product Management team is critical in full lifecycle product planning, delivery, and marketing with the end user in mind.
Your day-to-day job will consist of:
- Monitoring and driving all performance goals
- Coaching and developing employees
- Working to increase team efficiency and effectiveness in order to achieve long term goals
- Participating in hiring of new team members and any HR related tasks
- Improving organization's performance on delivering products by managing the cross functional development scope
- Ensuring effective rollout of new products across the platform; package and position ideas and products in ways that uniquely appeal to consumers
- Managing ongoing feedback loops with learners, partners, enterprises, employees and industry influencers to deliver consumer insights and improve our learner experience and platform services as rapidly and efficiently as possible
- Providing strong leadership to the product team through intelligent, clear and inspirational communication and a hands-on, passionate approach to the job
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 to 8 years of relevant and related work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Travel occasionally, up to 10-15%, for key moments such as team summits, training, customer meetings, company events, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands.
- This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed.
- Experience managing small to midsized teams or functional areas.
- Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environmen
- Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Excellent problem solving, conflict resolution, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Ability to mentor and coach fellow employees
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent attention to accuracy and detail, while still results oriented
- Experience with business analysis, documenting use cases or requirements gathering
- Excellent ability to work in a changing, dynamic environment
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation & Benefits
PowerSchool offers the following benefits:
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
- Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $99,100 - $168,400 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.
EEO Commitment
EEO Commitment
PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing [email protected].