Director Product Strategy, Learning Hub (Virtual)
Stride, Inc.

Job Description
The Director, Product Strategy is responsible for setting and driving a strategy to provide a seamless multi-product experience for Stride's consumer and enterprise applications. Reporting to the COO, the Director, Product Strategy will collaborate closely with colleagues in IT/Engineering, User Experience, Research, Curriculum, and Go-to-Market teams to ensure a delightful end-to-end experience from discovery, activation, and retention for learners, educators, and families. Success in this role requires a deep understanding of the education sector with a strong ability to center the voice of customer throughout the product lifecycle to quickly deliver and iterate on new offerings that add significant value to learners, educators, and the organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Drive the go-to-market teams to define, test, execute, and refine a product-led strategy for growth, adoption, and monetization that considers the enterprise and consumer contexts
• Owns the roadmap informed by in-depth customer discovery, competitive insights, and a strong grasp of the technical requirements.
• Collaborate with partners in UX Research, UX Design, Curriculum, Marketing, and Engineering/IT to understand customer needs and translate them into jobs to be done
• Work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to adoption and take ownership of the outcome.
• Lead the line of business through ideation, scoping and proof of concept to test product hypotheses and reduce product risk.
• Lead the business through the creation of business cases for product investment with the objective being to get them approved by the Stride SVP Steering Committee.
• Integrate existing and new Stride learning products into an intuitive and sticky multi-product experience for a growing audience of consumer and enterprise users including school districts and homeschool families.
• Establish and scale best practices for Product Management and Continuous Product Discovery, including high quality frameworks for documentation and communication.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITES: Directly supervises 1 - 3 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ten (10) years of experience in Product Management and/or Product Leadership
• Five (5) years of experience in Education Technology
• Experience managing a multi-product or portfolio experience

Certificates and Licenses: None

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities with a demonstrated track record of successful outcomes in situations where leading through influence was necessary
• Experience with B2B and B2C product contexts
• Knowledge of modern tech stack of cloud applications.
• Extensive firsthand experience with design, development, and implementation of Tech products
• A total cost of ownership mindset and understand product profitability and value
• Laser focus on the customer
• Demonstrated knowledge of budgeting, financial planning, and business operations.
• Strong leadership and team building skills.
• Ability to quickly drill down to solve problems and take ownership of the resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically.
• Ability to partner cross functionally to drive complex strategic projects
• Excellent management skills with the ability to work to deadlines and successfully lead multiple initiatives.
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio); Web proficiency.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/BA in business, technology, computer science or relevant field.
• MBA preferred

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Job Type
Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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