Senior Software Product Manager

About the role

As a Senior Software Product Manager at Bezos Academy, you will help more parents and caregivers create moments that matter by inventing solutions for early childhood education. You will join a founding team that is building solutions to challenges in early childhood education, combining AI technology, mobile apps, and curated learning materials to put a coach in the pocket of every parent. You will drive the product strategy for family impact through our mobile app, leading a product development team from concept through launch and ongoing ownership. Your work will combine digital experiences for caregivers with analog activities for children. You’ll work from a basis of family insights to make hard trade-offs and prioritize what matters most: the children and families we serve. You have a track record of building first-generation products and experiences that customers love. You are a hands-on, mission-driven product leader adept at collaborating with engineers and designers to solve customer problems. You work resourcefully across platforms and constraints, define problems clearly, resolve ambiguity, and iterate your way to success. You know what makes a software product exceptional and impart that standard in others. You thrive in fast-paced startup environments, motivated equally by great products and great impact, inspired by our mission to expand access to early childhood development programs for families of all kinds.

Responsibilities

• Help more parents and caregivers create moments that matter by inventing solutions for early childhood education.
• Join a founding team building solutions to challenges in early childhood education, combining AI technology, mobile apps, and curated learning materials to put a coach in the pocket of every parent.
• Drive the product strategy for family impact through our mobile app, leading a product development team from concept through launch and ongoing ownership.
• Combine digital experiences for caregivers with analog activities for children.
• Work from a basis of family insights to make hard trade-offs and prioritize what matters most: the children and families we serve.
• Build first-generation products and experiences that customers love.
• Collaborate with engineers and designers to solve customer problems.
• Work resourcefully across platforms and constraints, define problems clearly, resolve ambiguity, and iterate to success.
• Know what makes a software product exceptional and impart that standard in others.
• Thrive in fast-paced startup environments, motivated by great products and great impact, inspired by our mission to expand access to early childhood development programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience including five years in software product management or product development of mobile apps, learning software, or ecommerce using Agile / Lean methods.
• Prior experience building mobile apps, AI-driven experiences, or e-commerce businesses.
• Track record of customer obsession, working with data and insights to lead roadmaps, requirements, and execution of first-generation consumer products.
• History of successful collaboration with engineering, design, and marketing counterparts by understanding their roles and working collaboratively and transparently.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Qualifications

• Relentless prioritization and decision-making skills that enable your team to work with urgency in a fast-paced environment.
• Superior communication and analytical skills, including a strong ability to clarify and solve ambiguous problems with strategic direction.
• Direct experience with commerce platforms such as Shopify or Woo Commerce, cloud services such as AWS or Google