Product Engineer

About the role

WorldStrides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning. Founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C., the company now serves more than half a million students annually in over 100 countries, offering programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service‑learning, study abroad, and sports.

A hybrid builder who finds the highest‑leverage problems across WorldStrides, prototypes working solutions with AI‑assisted development, and hands them off to engineering for enterprise scale. Product Engineers are part product manager, part developer, and part solutions architect. They embed with teams across the business — operations, sales, marketing, finance, customer support, academics, and beyond — find where the company can create value, and then build it. That value might be a brand‑new customer experience, a new digital capability, a smarter platform feature, or a redesigned internal process. They own the outcome, not the ticket. Product Engineers deploy wherever the leverage is. The work is the same wherever it lands: get close to the real problem, find the leverage, build the proof, and graduate it to production with engineering.

Discovery — find the leverage. Embed with stakeholders across lines of business to understand how work actually gets done and where the real opportunity is — whether that's an unmet customer need, a missing capability, or a broken workflow. Identify and frame opportunities, then qualify them: is the problem worth solving — material, real, measurable, and feasible to build? Build the case for the work — quantify the prize, whether that's revenue or growth, a better customer experience, or hard savings, cost avoidance