Vice President, Product Operations

About the role

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere. The Head of Product Operations at PowerSchool is a strategic, operational, and crossfunctional executive responsible for architecting and scaling the systems, processes, analytics, and automations that enable a high-performing product organization. This leader partners closely with the CPO, R&D, Finance, Cloud Operations, and GTM teams to ensure the company delivers high-quality, high-impact products with operational excellence, customer-centricity, and financial discipline. This role owns Product Operations & Strategy end-to-end—driving alignment between product strategy, AI-enabled efficiencies, pricing and packaging, customer insights, segmentation analytics, and the operational rigor required to sustain growth and profitability across a multi-product SaaS platform.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Operating Model
  • Translate Product strategy into a clear operating model that connects priorities, investment, roadmaps, capacity, execution, and outcomes.
  • Lead annual and quarterly planning processes across Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
  • Establish practical operating rhythms, decision rights, and escalation paths that increase accountability and speed.
• Portfolio Governance and Investment
  • Create portfolio visibility for the CPO and executive leadership, including investments, dependencies, risks, and performance.
  • Build consistent frameworks for new investment, acceleration, consolidation, continued investment, and product retirement.
  • Partner with Finance and Product leaders to connect business cases, market opportunity, customer value, and expected returns.
  • Strengthen prioritization across growth, customer commitments, innovation, technical investment, compliance, and strategic needs.
• Monetization and Commercialization
  • Partner across Product, Finance, Sales, and Marketing on pricing, packaging,