Product Manager (Learner Experience)

Interplay Learning, the leader in immersive learning for the skilled trades, now includes Industrial Training International (ITI), the global leader in specialized industrial learning solutions.

Leveraging instructor-led training, online simulations, AI, and VR, Interplay helps organizations and educational institutions upskill faster, reduce risk, and increase operational readiness. With nearly 600,000 people trained, Interplay is shaping the future of workforce development, building better careers and better lives. Visit www.interplaylearning.com to learn more.

Awards & Recognition: 

• 2024 Facilitiesnet Readers' Choice Award Winners for Software
• Forbes 2024, America's Best Startup Employers
• 2024 Fast Company Most Innovative Companies
• 2024 AHR Expo Innovation Awards Winners for Software
• Built-In, Best Midsize Places to Work In Austin 2023 & 2024

Position:  Product Manager

Interplay Learning is an innovative impact-driven EdTech company that uses the power of VR and simulations to teach the trades. Our customers range from large enterprises to mom & pop shops, technical high schools and higher education institutions to correctional facilities helping create better opportunities for incarcerated individuals re-entering society.

We truly believe in our motto - Better Careers, Better Lives - for our customers and our employees. We hire intentionally, and responsibly; and we never experienced layoffs as a result. We prioritize being a healthy business, and that means we get scrappy and creative to delight our customers. 

As a Product Manager you will focus on the Learner Experience of our career development platform. You’ll partner with our Engineering Leads and VPs of Engineering, and Product. Together, you will radically improve our assessments and learner experience to drive technician career development and business outcomes for employers. Your role within the group is to analyze the highest ROI opportunities, architect scalable solutions, and manage the development and testing of features.

Why this position: 

• Mature the secret sauce of our product: assessments
• Research and lead our vision on developing simulations that measure hands-on skills
• Autonomy to ideate and implement AI enhancements

What you’ll do:

• Lead the development of assessment and learner experience features to drive technician career development and business outcomes for employers
• Use business and user requirements to make key technical decisions in partnership with engineering leads to support wise trade-offs and timely decisions
• Make tested improvements to features that have aged to the point of frustration or irrelevance for users
• Maintain and take action on a strong feedback loop across employers, learners, and the broad market for assessments
• Evaluate opportunities …