Senior Technical Product Manager

The Position: 

As a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Savvas Learning Company, you’ll be working with a highly-capable team of product leaders, architects, UX designers, engineers and testers focused on building efficacious learning experiences on Savvas’ flagship learning management system, Savvas Realize. Your primary responsibility will be to define, own, prioritize and deliver on a backlog of features that are all ultimately in support of improving teaching and learning. 

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with designers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance to translate high-level business objectives into project charters and functional requirements.

• Use quantitative and qualitative methods to balance business and technical needs

• Perform acceptance and ad-hoc functional testing of new features

• Effectively manage trade-offs between cost/schedule versus business benefit

• Manage projects, drive delivery, plan/organize work, manage risks, communicate effectively and adapt to inevitable challenges

• Manage and coordinate technical integrations across multiple lines of business

• Coach and mentor junior technical product managers and business analysts

What you’ll need:

• Technical degree and 5+ years in a technical product management role

• 3+ years experience leading small to medium-sized teams

• Familiarity with web-based and mobile product development and understanding of typical technology architecture for web and mobile applications

• Experience managing, translating, and distilling requirements across multiple products into common capabilities / reusable services

• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Self-starter, accustomed to working in a changing environment, who takes pride and ownership of their products

• Excellent communicator, comfortable having technical discussions with both internal and external developers, as well as discussing high-level concepts with both internal and external customers.

• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams to drive the implementation of new features as well as resolve operational issues

• Strong preference for candidates with experience in K-12 education

• Ability to facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders
  #LI-TALR
  #LI-REMOTE