Position: Academy Product Manager
Company: Binary Studio
Experience required: 2y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

Binary Studio Academy’s mission is to transform smart and motivated students into capable engineers who are ready to build world-class software. Our vision is to make the Academy international and spread quality, modern and free IT education abroad.

We strive to become a Harvard-like IT education industry standard in Ukraine, an establishment every talented student seeks to be a part of (BTW, the Academy admission rate of 6.7% is quite close to Harvard’s. ;)

**Every year, the Academy changes the lives of dozens of its alumni. To hold and organize Academy, it takes:**

 - A team of at least 60 people (half of the company)
 - 6 months of preparation (to revise the curriculum, record new lectures, define projects and their scope, etc.)
 - Months of PR campaigning to gather over 5000 applicants
 - Partnering with the best tech universities of the country
 - Holding dozens of online events to promote Academy
 - Communication with thousands of applicants, conducting interviews, and giving presentations

**Currently we are looking for an Academy Product Manager — the conductor of our Academy orchestra and the leader of change.**

This is not your typical “Product Manager” vacancy. We’re looking for someone who is dedicated to the idea of helping the IT community by leading an educational program that will straight up change peoples’ lives — no joke. If you are the kind of person with a burning ambition to do something deeply meaningful and worthwhile in the tech sector — read on, because this might just be your dream job. :)

The Product Manager will bring Binary Studio Academy to the international market, transform processes so that Academy can be held quarterly, coordinate all the company’s efforts assisting the team, initiating improvements, promoting and increasing the Academy’s brand awareness — and to do all it takes for Academy to be the first place people think of when they consider top-tier programs transforming the most talented students into world-class engineers.

Making that happen will require readiness to take on many different tasks, which can be divided into 2 categories: coordinating the Academy and implementing its marketing strategy. To give you a rough idea of what you’ll do on the job, here are just a few examples.

**Increase brand awareness of Binary Studio Academy**

 - Conduct market researches (IT education in Ukraine, Belarus and other neighbouring countries) resulting in action plan for the team
 - Plan and implement Marketing campaigns for Binary Studio Academy (in Ukraine and abroad)
 - Establish partnerships with universities
 - Сooperate with universities via sponsorships, job fairs, open lectures etc.
 - Strengthen the online presence of Academy through SMM channels: FB, telegram, Instagram, etc.

**Coordinate Binary Studio Academy**

 - Constantly review and optimize processes so that Binary Studio Academy remains among the leading IT education programs in Ukraine
 - Manage the selection process for Academy (e.g. organize the renewal of questions for the online test, interview applicants, make sure we stick to the timeline, track and ping all people involved on the progress of preparation for different stages of the selection process)
 - Design, develop and Manage the learning management system (LMS) for students together with our tech team
 - Initiate updates for LMS features and manage improvements on the Academy website

In 2021, the JS track of the Academy switched from an annual to a biannual program. Currently, only students from Ukraine and very few students from Belarus are enrolled.

**A good candidate is:**

 - Strong analytical and operational skills. You are going to transform plenty of processes and implement new approaches. It is important to act on the basis of research results and operate data.
 - An implementer. Generating ideas is cool, but you have to be ready to turn them into actions and organize work that needs to be done. What is also important here is a huge attention to details and endless desire to improve processes, operations, and everything around you.
 - A leader of change and team player. You will work with lots of people whom you will need to lead and encourage, and you will require lots of help from them in achieving your work goals. That will require your best communicational and personal skills, maturity and cooperativeness.
 - Driven by big goals and is ready to work hard to achieve them. There can hardly be a task to which you can say “it’s not in my job description”.
It’s ok to feel challenged by such an opportunity, but you have to be 100% certain that you will do whatever it takes to make it happen, and to make Ukrainian IT Harvard happen.

**Nice if you are:**

 - Experienced in marketing and communications
 - Experienced in leading teams, projects
 - Good at networking. You love meeting new people and keeping in touch with them.
 - Worked with uncertainty
 - Lived/worked/studied abroad

We would prefer candidates with at least 2 years of previous experience (regardless of the sphere) and a strong track record in managing and delivering various projects.

**What we offer:**

 - A meaningful purpose at work — you will be leading a unique, free educational project that changes people’s lives.
 - Endless opportunities for professional growth, you will build a very strong T-Shape set of competencies in a wide range of areas (from marketing and project management to design and behavioural psychology).
 - An inspiring and friendly team who does great work and has a lot of fun together
 - A competitive salary