Group Product Manager, Horizon

Job Responsibilities

• Personally own a core area of the Horizon platform end to end—running discovery, writing requirements, making the prioritization calls, and partnering daily with engineering and design to ship.
• Stay close to the details: dig into the data, prototype and pressure-test ideas, review designs, and validate solutions with real users so the team ships work that is genuinely useful.
• Set the bar for product craft by example, modeling the discovery, writing, and decision-making you expect from the PMs you lead.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of Product Managers responsible for Horizon workstreams, setting clear expectations and helping each PM sharpen their craft.
• Foster a high-agency, outcome-oriented culture where PMs operate with confidence in ambiguity and hold themselves accountable to measurable business results.
• Balance hands-on coaching with real autonomy—giving your PMs ownership of their areas while stepping in directly when a problem needs your attention.

Product Strategy & Execution

• Own the strategy and roadmap for your group’s areas of Horizon, translating NCC’s broader product vision into a sequenced plan that delivers value to institutions and students.
• Identify and build practical applications of AI across your areas of the platform, pushing for experiences that are genuinely useful rather than incrementally better.
• Keep a close eye on the higher education payments landscape, competitive moves, and emerging regulatory requirements, and fold what you learn back into the roadmap.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with sales, marketing, implementation, and client success to plan and execute Horizon launches, making sure each release is market-ready and lands commercially.
• Closely with engineering on architecture and delivery cadence, managing trade-offs transparently to keep both product quality and timelines on track.
• Define success metrics for your areas—spanning adoption, retention, payment completion, and institutional satisfaction—and hold the team accountable to outcomes, not just outputs.
• Collaborate with compliance, security, and risk teams to ensure releases meet PCI Level 1 standards and applicable higher education regulatory requirements.

Annual Compensation

Annual compensation range for this role is $100,000 - $150,000 depending on experience.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK.