Senior Product Manager, Platform
United States
About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company focused on helping students achieve academic success and well-being. More than 2,000 K-12 school districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted Panorama to understand and support students across academics, attendance, behavior, and life skills development. School districts turn to Panorama's student support platform, research-backed surveys, and professional development to track progress toward strategic goals and improve student outcomes.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States, in-person from our Boston office, or a hybrid option.
About the Role:
As Senior Product Manager, you will lead our Platform squad, driving the development of foundational components and shared solutions that unlock the full power of our platform. You will focus on ensuring that Panorama’s products work seamlessly together, empowering educators with insights and capabilities that span across data domains and workflows. Your work will enable scalable, efficient, and consistent solutions that amplify the value that each product has on its own. You will own the Platform roadmap, working closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., Design, Engineering, Client Experience) to identify and prioritize opportunities that strengthen the platform’s core capabilities and deliver exceptional user experiences. By deeply understanding the data and workflows within Panorama’s ecosystem, you will define strategic initiatives that support data-driven decision making in schools and solve real problems for educators and students. As a highly analytical and technical leader, you will define and track meaningful KPIs to measure the impact of platform solutions on product performance and user outcomes. This role reports to the Director of Product and plays a pivotal role in fulfilling Panorama’s vision of a truly integrated platform that transforms educational insights into action.
Responsibilities:
- Product Vision & Roadmapping: Shape a compelling vision and roadmap for Panorama’s platform, in partnership with Product Leadership, that best serves overall product and business strategies and maximizes your team’s resources
- Cross-Product, Platform Approach: Take a holistic approach, in collaboration with other Product Managers, to identify and support cross-product line opportunities, with a focus on platform scalability and extensibility (a 1+1=3 approach)
- Impactful Product Execution: Lead your team to effectively execute on the vision and roadmap, ensuring continuous delivery of customer value through a lean development approach. Ruthlessly prioritize for strong focus and reliable delivery from your squad
- Client Engagement & Complex Problem Solving: Unpack, prioritize, and solve client-specific escalations and needs, delivering results that balance immediate value for strategic partners with long-term objectives
- Deep Reporting & Analytics Expertise: Leverage your reporting expertise to enhance our in-platform reporting suite, bring our insight-to-action promise to life for end users Deeply understand the key user needs and questions educators ask of data, to develop the most actionable insights that support data-driven decision-making cycles in schools
- Exceptional Cross-Functional Collaboration: Continuously partner with Engineering, Design, Applied Research & Data Science, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and others in Product to execute and iterate on the roadmap. Facilitate alignment and clear communication across stakeholders, ensuring product health and growth
- Strong Fluency with Data and KPIs: Set, track, and evaluate the most meaningful product line KPIs to ensure your team is delivering intended outcomes. Lead by example, regularly using data to evaluate feature success and inform iterations and make tough prioritization decisions
Our Ideal Candidate Has:
- Over 5 years of product management experience, ideally with a focus on platform, data, reporting, or analytic products. Previous experience developing software platforms, BI tools, or insights-related products is a plus.
- A proven track record in leading strategic product initiatives and delivering successful outcomes for a product or platform area, with an emphasis on driving KPI-focused growth
- A strong foundation in talking to customers and gathering insights, with the ability to understand, empathize with, and communicate user needs to your team. You manage escalations effectively and turn client-specific needs into actionable strategies
- Experience in edtech and/or education (a plus) and a solid grasp of diverse client needs in educational settings, understanding the nuances between technical and adaptive challenges
- A self-starter with exceptional skills in tackling complex problems and turning ambiguity into actionable solutions. You drive cross-team execution autonomously while proactively sharing updates, surfacing risks, and communicating key decisions effectively
- A collaborative spirit, excelling at cross-functional work with teams in Engineering, Client Experience, Revenue, Marketing, and Design, and adept at fostering teamwork and achieving shared goals
- A deep analytical mindset and reporting expertise, leveraging data to make strategic product decisions
- Strong communication skills, with a history of effectively engaging stakeholders and articulating product priorities, particularly in complex or nuanced areas
Salary
The starting salary range for this role is $138,500 - $153,990. Actual offers will depend on experience and skills.
The “Base Salary” range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations. The determination of this anticipated Base Salary range involves the consideration of many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs. Our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits.
Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.
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Must be within the continental United States
Benefits/PerksAnnual bonus Commission awards Equity awards Fully remote Fully remote option Health and welfare benefits Hybrid option Hybrid work Hybrid work option Professional development Professional development opportunities
Tasks- Collaborate with cross functional teams
- Design
- Engage with clients
- Enhance reporting suite
- Execute product roadmap
- Lead platform development
- Partner
- Shape product vision
Analytical Analytics Client Engagement Client Experience Collaboration Communication Cross-functional Collaboration Data analysis Data-driven decision making EdTech Education KPI Tracking Lean development Management Organizational Problem-solving Product Management Professional Development Reporting Strategic initiatives Strategic planning Technical Technology User Experience Design
Experience5 years
Certifications TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9