About Prodigy

Prodigy Education, a global leader in game-based learning, is on a mission to make every student in the world love learning. We believe learning should be as fun as playing a video game. This is central to our educational philosophy, because when you love what you do, you do it better. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.

With Prodigy, kids practice standards-aligned skills in Math and English as they play our fun, adaptive learning games. All with teacher and parent tools to support their learning in class and at home.

This role supports teams that are the educational infrastructure at Prodigy. Key surface areas for the Product Manager in this role will be our Question Interface as well as our educational infrastructure that drives reporting and insights for teachers. If you have experience with assessment types in education or you are familiar with how to build out personalized educational experiences we want to hear from you. Or if you relish the opportunity to take a complex legacy product and produce something lean, simple and scalable we also want to hear from you!

Bonus points if you have experience in developing AI enhanced experiences in education.

Your Impact

Collaborate in a cross-functional team with developers, designers, and data scientists, and create a team culture with a vision aligned with our strategy
Curate the product backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority task, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks
Develop a deep understanding of our customers’ needs
Track and analyze metrics at every part of the student and teacher journey so that you can focus in on the highest value opportunities
Effectively scope projects and experiments so that they are lean but also add enough value to validate your hypotheses
Iterate upon successful features to ensure teachers always receive value from our product and students have what they need to be successful
The opportunity to enhance the key educational experience for students - our question interface!
The ability to provide insights to educators to make our experience more effective.
Consistently communicate what your team is working on and releasing to partner teams
Champion the accomplishments of your team to the rest of the company, ensuring that proper recognition is given when appropriate

About You

4+ years of experience in a Product Management role at a SaaS company
A passion for education
Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale and story for product decisions
Experience using user research and metrics to add significant value to a product
A solid understanding of data driven decision making, including the ability to drive and interpret hypothesis-based testing
The ability to scope projects so that every part of them plays a key role in your overall objective
Previous experience collaborating closely with engineers, developers, UX designers, and other team members

Bonus Points

Experience with assessment in education
Experience having built personalized learning experiences
Experience in transforming legacy technologies into more useful and elegant systems
Google Docs
Jira

Working At Prodigy

Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning! At Prodigy Education, your work positively impacts the lives of millions of students and teachers worldwide.
Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members, so you grow as we do. You’ll also work on award-winning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st-8th.
We understand that a thriving team is at the core of our success. So, on top of an inspirational mission and rewarding work, our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial, physical, and mental well-being.
It’s not just about the work though; it's about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: "Prodigy’s secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving.” Check it out here.
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Prodigy Math is used by almost one million teachers a year, and was named the most popular supplemental education platform in classrooms in the United States! Our products have also won numerous consumer awards, including the Mom’s Choice Award, Parent and Teacher Choice Awards, and National Parenting Product Award.

Come as you are. We believe the power of our collective potential will transform education. We are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people from all underrepresented groups, including (but not limited to) people of any gender, age, or religion, members of the LGBTQIA2+ community, BIPOC and other underrepresented races and nationalities, people with disabilities, veterans, and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of Prodigy Education. If you feel like you don’t have all the qualifications for this position and are willing to use your initiative to learn the rest, we’d still love for you to apply!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Prodigy Education will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation, please notify us at jobs@prodigygame.com, and we will work with you to meet your needs.