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Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning – powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed – however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers – whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Product Owner for Student Experience performs a vital role in the product management and engineering process at Stride. The product owner works with the Head of Product and product managers to translate customer vision into a roadmap of executable milestones easily understood by the platform engineering teams for implementation. This individual is the primary liaison between Engineering and the lines of business. They work with the product team to define the business requirements and translate them into technical requirements across backend, front-end and data services. This role plays a critical part in the complete development lifecycle including requirements definition, design, testing, user acceptance and ongoing enhancements/support. This role is particularly exciting as it supports all the product work to modernize Stride Student and community engagement and foster collaboration through avenues such as synchronous learning, school in the metaverse, Stride communities and the K12 mobile app.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Partner with Product Managers and the Business Organizations to capture business requirements and voice of the customer.
- Partner with the Engineering teams to translate the business requirements into technical requirements including documenting user stories and user acceptance test cases.
- Partner with the Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to prioritize the technical requirements for delivery, including making trade offs and reprioritizing as the business and product landscape changes.
- Be the subject matter expert on how your product functions, what it is capable of and how it can be further leveraged or expanded to support future growth,
- Partner with engineering teams to estimate the work and technology solutions required for new capabilities.
- Partner with the customer experience and design team on the wireframes and design prototypes, to make sure the function of each box, click, button, link, etc., is defined including data, processing, and outputs.
- Provide 4th tier support when there are questions about how a product is supposed to function in production versus the behavior users are experiencing.
- Develop release notes and communication on product releases.
- Develop documentation and diagrams for product requirements.
- Partner with marketing and the Director of G2M on go-to-market activities as needed.
- Understand and document the data and reporting requirements associated with the product.
- Capture and analyze critical product data regarding (1) delivery and quality of the product; (2) usage of the product.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management in a Product owner role
- 8+ years of experience in technology, building and delivering, digital products or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Outstanding knowledge of modern tech stack of cloud applications.
- Extensive firsthand experience with design, development, and implementation of IT systems.
- Analytical mind and great critical thinking skills.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities and history of success collaborating with executives across an organization.
- Strong leadership and team building skills.
- Work towards results with a passion for technology and continuous delivery.
- 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.
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS/BA in technology business management, computer science or relevant field
- Pragmatic Product Management certification
- Experience with Amazon’s Working Backwards methodology.
- Demonstrated knowledge of budgeting, financial planning, and business operations.
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, D.C.
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $72,000 to $125,000. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
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.
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)