Sr. Technical Product Manager

Interplay Learning sits at the intersection of EdTech, Virtual Reality, and Enterprise Software as it modernizes Learning Management & Content Systems throughout the skilled trade industries.

Since 2016, Austin-based Interplay Learning has been building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees.

Our award-winning online and VR training for the essential skilled trades, including HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Solar, Multi-Family Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance workforces, is scalable and more effective than traditional training methods. By leveraging immersive learning technology, Interplay’s customers are able to train and practice hands-on learning from a desktop, phone, tablet, or in virtual reality. The result is a highly trained employee who is job-ready in weeks, not years. 

Our digital experiential learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with its short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, coaching, community, and connectivity. 

Awards & Recognition: 

• September 2024, Interplay Learning Closes Growth Investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Acquires Industrial Training International
• Built-In, Best Midsize Places to Work In Austin 2023 & 2024
• Forbes 2024, America's Best Startup Employers
• Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards in the Education, General Excellence, and On the Rise categories

Position:   Senior Technical Product Manager

You’ll partner with our Engineering Leads and VPs of Engineering, Production, and Product. Together, you will radically improve our proprietary authoring tools to make them more usable and cost-efficient for skilled trades content development. Your role within the group is to analyze the highest ROI opportunities, architect scalable solutions, and manage the development and testing of tooling features.

Why this position: 

• Mature the secret sauce of our product: content tooling
• Dive into VR and 3D design
• Autonomy to ideate and implement AI enhancements

What you’ll do:  

• Lead the development of tools and features that our content production team uses to achieve their content output goals
• 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 tools that have aged to the point of slowing us down as a team
• Maintain and take action on a strong feedback loop across the content production and authoring tools teams
• Evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and new tools to step-change our authoring efficiency
• Conduct user testing and QA
• Actively look for inspiration from other Content Authoring, Gaming, 3D and VR brands
• Ensure a successful content authoring experience

Who you are:  

• Strong technical skills with a proven ability to work in partnership with engineering and technical leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to successfully facilitate decisions around complex ideas and technical trade-offs
• Good emotional intelligence, enabling effective collaboration and relationship building
• Strategic thinker with a keen ability to identify patterns and find systematic solutions
• Problem-solving mindset with a focus on scale and pragmatic innovation
• Passionate about technology, with a commitment to lifelong learning
• Strong empathy and user-centric focus, understanding the impact of product decisions on content authoring stakeholders

Requirements:

• 3+ years of technical product management experience
• Demonstrated success driving a technical roadmap forward
• Practical ability to write technical requirements, user stories, etc
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience with JIRA analytics, Unity, React, app development and BI/Product analytics tools (e.g. Pendo, Amplitude, Heap)
• Have used scrum and agile and are familiar with tools and ceremonies that support them

Pay:  $130K-$150K

Interplay Learning Ethos:

At Interplay, we love what we do. We embrace our daily challenge to push technological limits to invent better ways to make learning easier and training more powerful. We attract passionate people and invite spirited discourse. We celebrate that our jobs fit our lives, not the inverse. We are uncompromising in our belief that together: we can build better training, build better careers and build better lives for customers and our team.

Company Benefits:

• Remote-first culture and flexible hours
• Learning resources and annual learning reimbursement
• Family-friendly policies 
• Generous vacation policy includes 3 weeks of PTO, 1 week Winter Break, holidays and sick days 
• Medical, vision and dental insurance coverage
• 401k
• Private company stock options
• Mental health and wellness resources
• Virtual/in person social events

Diversity Statement

At Interplay Learning, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are and how we operate our business. We’re building a diverse workforce that cultivates and supports all individuals for the betterment of each other, our company, and our customers. We believe a culture of equality creates a stronger work environment for all employees and that we are all accountable for encouraging and celebrating diverse voices. Interplay Learning commits to promote and recognize principles of fairness, equity, and social justice in relation to, and across, intersections of race, age, color, disability, faith, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, social class, economic class, ethnicity, gender identity, gender expression, and all other identities represented among our diverse membership.

We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. Interplay Learning is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need any reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Interplay Learning is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic or activity in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.