Technical Product Manager

Job Overview:

The Technical Product Managers in Lexia's Product Management organization are responsible for guiding the continual improvement and integrity of the company's online student and educator applications and platforms. This

requires collaborating with stakeholders across technical and non-technical internal teams, and developing a good understanding of the products' fit within the U.S. PreK-12 education market. The Technical Product Managers work closely with each other, as well as with the broader Product Management, Content, Learning Design, UX Design, Engineering, and QA teams to influence new ideas, drive product improvements, and manage the technical requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.

The Technical Product Managers have a software development, software architecture, or other strong technical background and become subject matter experts on the platform and technology behind the company's software solutions. They possess strong communication skills, including the abilities to understand and explain market challenges, to define and champion solutions for those challenges, to translate business requirements into feature definitions for technical audiences, and to explain technical risks and limitations to non-technical audiences.

The Technical Product Managers influence and help to manage the product roadmaps and backlog, and assist with internal and external communication of product features, plans, and work in progress.

Job Responsibilities:

• Understand the strategic business goals for the product as owned and articulated by the business Product Managers
• Work with customer-facing internal teams to understand desired product feature additions and updates
• Demonstrate proactive understanding of business or market challenges and the ability to offer clear solutions
• Understand and communicate technical constraints and dependencies and how these may affect the roadmap
• Communicate and champion the value of the roadmap goals internally and externally as needed
• Communicate to key stakeholders progress toward the roadmap goals, risks as they materialize, and course corrections when they are needed

Product Requirements

• Fulfill the strategic roadmap goals by defining and prioritizing product features and improvements into releases over time
• Drive each release of features and improvements through user stories in cross-functional collaboration with Content, Learning Design, UX Design, Engineering, and QA team members
• Create and manage user stories with clear acceptance criteria, epics for managing related user stories, and bug tickets as they occur; ensure that all cross-functional teams understand these artifacts
• Help manage an up-to-date and prioritized backlog that has a clear and understandable set of prioritized user stories and other tickets as needed; help troubleshoot, prioritize, and assign daily any bug tickets created by the Customer Support and QA teams
• Constantly manage the scope and contents of each monthly release in collaboration with, and with respect to the bandwidth of, all required cross-functional teams
• Become an expert on the expected behavior and user experience of each products' user personas in order to proactively identify and create user stories for improvements and bug tickets for escaped defects
• Experiment with the latest tools to improve the requirements definition process; share findings with the rest of Product Management and cross-functional teams

Product Communications

• Prepare and publish product release notes
• Demonstrate and explain features and functionality to internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Help to create and maintain product documentation such as Help Center articles, user guides, etc.
• Create user personas, use cases, feature briefs, and other product documentation as needed to describe and communicate clearly the value of the features under development

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least four (4) years of experience in technical product management
• Experience working closely throughout the entire software development lifecycle with UX designers, software developers, and QA engineers as a product manager or product owner
• Experience as a product manager for online SaaS products is preferred
• The ability to think critically and creatively when faced with competing priorities, feature development challenges, and release-blocking issues
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills in writing for, conversing with, and presenting to engineers, non-technical business leaders, and customers (who could be anywhere from very technical to very non-technical)
• Expertise working with Atlassian's Jira software is preferred

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit https://www.lexialearning.com/.

Remote First Work Environment 

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role. To maintain confidentiality and ensure a fair evaluation process, the use of note-taking tools, reference materials, or AI-powered tools (including generative AI, language models, or similar technologies) during interviews or other selection activities is prohibited unless prior written approval has been obtained from the People Experience team. If you require an exception for medical, accessibility, or other reasons, please contact your Talent Acquisition team member to discuss accommodations in advance.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.