Position: Product Manager for Education Technology Startup
Company: Classtime
Experience required: 2y
Category: Product Manager
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Job Description**
We are looking for a Product Manager who will help us to bring our educational web technology Classtime to the next level. The core mission of the Product Manager is to co-create and manage our product strategy: listening to - and even anticipating - our educators’ and students’ needs and assuring that our product delivers the value they deserve.

Together with our clients, our business development and growth team, our designers, and our software engineers you will help to design and execute product strategies and projects for our early-stage startup. You’re driven and motivated to develop and manage multiple projects of our product roadmap and meet mutually agreed product goals on a consistent basis. You’re excited to work with principals, teachers, and students to develop a keen understanding of their needs in order to provide exceptional solutions to current and prospective customers.

You love working in education and keep up-to-date with ever-changing market trends, gather customer feedback to help improve and enhance product offerings and have a good understanding of web products and technologies.

It is important to you to demonstrate your strong entrepreneurial abilities and you’re excited to work with strong, driven teammates to lastingly improve education.

**Benefits**
- International experience: Classtime’s offices are in Kyiv, Los Angeles, and Zurich, and we are open to remote positions and can also provide access to co-working spaces as needed. With our distributed team setup, you enjoy full flexibility of how and where to work. Our client base is very international. 
- Entrepreneurial environment: we’re a young company in a strongly growing market that allows us to experiment, try new initiatives, and win as a team!
- Impact in Education: finding and providing solutions that really work for student achievement!
- Continued Growth: Exceptional candidates have the opportunity to grow further within our team.
- Exceptional team: work with an energetic team that combines previous startup exit experience and brings experience from top engineering and business teams (Google, McKinsey, previous successful startups).

**Must-Have**
- Proven track record of product development for web technologies.
- Strong sense of responsibility and ownership for our product roadmap, but also for real student achievement and customer success.
- Strong communication skills: Ability to manage and align interests/viewpoints of different stakeholders/team members, ability to find and drive consensus
- Project management skills: the ability to drive and execute product initiatives successfully, ability to prioritize.
- Strategic thinking: ability to identify business opportunities and translate those into a coherent product roadmap
- Listening skills and curiosity: a passion for engaging with customers internationally, listen to their challenges, and suggest solutions; having a passion for research competitors, becoming inspired by their approaches, and translating those into
- Data-driven mindset: ability to develop hypotheses, create user behavior experiments together with the growth team (A/B testing, customer funnels), and derive actionable insights from product analytics (Intercom, GA4, Mixpanel, etc.).
- Ability to work in an environment that promotes frequent releases while maintaining a big-picture vision.
- Good understanding of user experience, usability, and website design.

**Nice-to-have**
- Strong understanding of web-based technologies.
- Experience working with scrum methodology.
- Basic understanding of machine learning.
- Previous education & educational design experience.
- Previous experience within a startup environment.
- Previous experience working with a remote/distributed team.

**Classtime Values**
Curiosity - Always continue to experiment and learn.
We have to focus on our client, the teacher. We question critically, we listen carefully, and experiment creatively with new ideas. If you love to understand the unknown, then continue, because you now know 25% of our values.

Impact - Always focus on generating value for society.
We don't pride ourselves on large employee numbers, but rather on exceptional impact per team member. We expect exceptional ownership and responsibility, not only for your tasks but for our impact on society. Don't go improve the next ad platform, help us in our attempt to shape the future of education. If you can throw a punch with impact, then use both fists, not only 50%.

Perseverance - Always keep pushing yourself.
We are a distributed team, working across several time zones. Just like us, you can live in Los Angeles, Kyiv, Zurich, or anywhere you want. Our home has many names: Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Github, InVision, Slack, etc. We don't excel through pressure but through alignment and discipline. We don't require you to run with us forever but don't expect a half-marathon either. Just keep in mind: pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Persevere. You're already at 75%.

Honor - Act with integrity, always help a friend or rival.
Education is not a battle against each other, but for each other. Technology is already having a great impact on education. Why do we care? Because we believe that creative, curious people will honor future generations and learn to solve the world's biggest challenges for the long-term. This is what Classtime is all about – and we will relentlessly strive for our goals and keep pushing the frontiers of education. With our friends and “co-opetition”. This is 100% Classtime.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

**Get in touch with us now, let's talk!**