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Join Amplify as an Associate Product Manager for the Literacy Core Curriculum in a contract role, where you will drive product initiatives and enhance educational experiences through extensive market research and user testing.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include user advocacy, market research, cross-functional product leadership, user testing, and ensuring product quality during development and deployment.

Skills: Required skills include strong project management abilities, bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications: Candidates should have at least 1 year of experience in customer support or project management, preferably in education or educational technology.

Location: This is a remote position based in the United States, with no additional travel required.

Compensation: $50 - $55 / Hourly

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for an enthusiastic bilingual product manager to join our team, ready to dive into user and market research, cross-functional product initiatives, and the development of our innovative educational products. Our product managers work with Amplify leadership and other product managers across design, curriculum, engineering, as well as marketing and implementation to realize our vision and build and execute against the roadmap. We are passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students and administrators and seek a product manager who shares that passion.

*This is a contract role expected to end 5/29/26.

Essential Responsibilities:

User Empathy – Be a dedicated advocate for our customers and users, empathizing with their needs. Represent customer perspectives through all phases of product development. Visit Amplify classrooms and synthesize observations and findings. Act as a specialist in our customer feedback, drawing insights from data points and sharing them with the product team to aid product strategy. Explore usage data for insights into how our product is used in classrooms.

Market Research and Analysis - Stay up to date on the education market and prepare briefs to share with leadership and product team. Research the competitive product landscape to inform product, design and development decisions. Use research findings to guide strategy planning and product development.

Product Knowledge – Serve as an expert on our products for marketing, sales, and implementation teammates. Collaborate on customer-facing projects including training materials, pilot support, customer discussion guidelines and sales meetings.

Cross-Functional Product Leadership - Lead product initiatives that span across multiple teams, including content, product, design, engineering, platform, marketing and measurement. Drive the delivery of initiatives and large-scale projects from initial concept and planning, through execution and release.

Product Planning – Conduct research to identify and understand product issues that our users face and support those issues with data. Work with teammates to propose solutions and build out initiatives to overcome challenges. Create and pitch initiatives grounded in research for inclusion in the product roadmap.

Product Design – Collaborate with key partners on design, curriculum, and engineering teams to execute on goals and solution initiatives. Participate in human-centered design workshops. Make informed decisions by analyzing data from product metrics / user behavior and prototyping results.

User Testing - Lead user testing of new product ideas, including running focus groups with teachers, getting feedback on prototypes, and coordinating feature pilots with live classrooms. Design research plans, interview participants, analyze data, and recommend actions based on findings.

Team Leadership– Communicate product goals and objectives regularly to your project team to motivate them. Actively participate in your team’s ceremonies and be readily available to address questions, concerns, and blockers.

Product Development – Partner with the curriculum and design teams to ensure regular coordination of features and product design guidelines throughout the product development phase. Ensure product quality and scope meet Amplify standards.

Product Deployment – Draft internal communications, release notes and training materials for the launch of new features. Review customer-facing information before it is released. Support troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience in customer support, project management, user experience, education or a similar field with a bachelors degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Fluency in Spanish and English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in education and/or education technology
• Client service experience either in consulting or another field
• Professional work experience in the education field
• Outstanding writing skills, including extraordinary attention to details of grammar, punctuation, phrasing, tone, and structure
• Ability to coordinate and effectively communicate between multiple stakeholders at varying levels of an organization

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $50 - $55.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.

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If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

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