Product Manager

🇺🇸Remote$90K–$120K/yr2h ago

K-12 Product Product Management Search Discovery Recommendation Systems Personalization Content Optimization

Summary

Product Manager at Epic, a leading digital reading platform for kids, supporting the development and optimization of product experiences across the platform. This early-career PM role focuses on building user-centered digital products in a mission-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities: Support planning, execution, and iteration of product initiatives while partnering with engineering, design, and data teams to define requirements and deliver high-quality user experiences. Analyze product performance, optimize key user journeys like discovery and recommendations, and translate user feedback and data insights into actionable product ideas.

Skills & Tools: Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making abilities, cross-functional collaboration skills, and experience with product optimization and experimentation. Passion for user-centered design, particularly in search, recommendations, discovery, and engagement optimization for digital products.

Qualifications: Early-career product management experience or demonstrated readiness to transition into a PM role with a strong understanding of user-centered product development. Interest in education technology, children's digital products, or content discovery platforms is beneficial.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $90K–$120K/yr

Job Description

About Epic
Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids, used by millions of children, families, and educators around the world. With a vast library of high-quality books and learning resources, we empower K–12 students to explore their interests, build literacy skills, and develop a lifelong love of reading.
As we look to the future, Epic is reimagining what reading can be—more personalized, more interactive, and more accessible than ever before. By combining technology, storytelling, and education, we are building the next generation of reading experiences for kids.

About the Role
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our growing product team. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career product manager who is passionate about building user-centered digital products and eager to learn in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
Reporting to the product leadership team, this role will support the development and optimization of product experiences across Epic’s platform. You will work closely with cross-functional partners in engineering, design, data, content, and marketing to help define features, improve user journeys, and drive measurable impact.
This role is especially well-suited for someone with an interest in search, recommendations, discovery, and product optimization, and who is excited about using data and experimentation to improve the user experience for children, families, and educators.

Key Responsibilities
• Support the planning, execution, and iteration of product initiatives across Epic’s platform
• Partner with engineering, design, and data teams to define product requirements and deliver high-quality user experiences
• Analyze product performance and user behavior to identify opportunities for improvement
• Help optimize key user journeys such as content discovery, search, recommendations, onboarding, and engagement
• Translate user feedback, business needs, and data insights into clear product ideas and actionable next steps
• Contribute to product documentation, roadmaps, experiment design, and launch planning
• Monitor feature performance after launch and recommend improvements based on results
• Collaborate with stakeholders across teams to keep projects aligned and moving forward

Qualifications
• 1–3 years of experience in product management, product operations, strategy, analytics, consulting, or a related field
• Strong interest in digital consumer products, education technology, or personalization systems
• Preferred experience working on or closely supporting search, recommendation, discovery, ranking, or content optimization features
• Understanding of basic product optimization methods, such as A/B testing, funnel analysis, KPI tracking, and hypothesis-driven iteration
• Strong analytical thinking and comfort working with product and business metrics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote, cross-functional environment
• Professional fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese
• Passion for Epic’s mission to inspire kids to read and learn

Nice to Have
• Experience working with recommendation systems, search relevance, personalization, or content platforms
• Familiarity with SQL, analytics tools, or experimentation platforms
• Experience in consumer, marketplace, media, edtech, or other education-related products
• Experience working in a startup or fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Experience working with cross-functional global teams

Why Join Epic
• Be part of a mission-driven company shaping how millions of children read and learn
• Work on a product with meaningful impact, global reach, and strong growth potential
• Learn from a collaborative, thoughtful, and fast-moving product organization
• Help build experiences that are more personalized, engaging, and effective for young readers
• Enjoy the flexibility of a remote-friendly work environment

Compensation: Total compensation ranges from $90,000 to $120,000 annually (including base salary and performance-based bonus), flexible depending on experience and fit.