Who We Are

New Visions for Public Schools is an established 30 year partner to New York City public schools, who has continuously worked alongside key leaders to improve the quality of K-12 education in New York City. In the last 5+ years, New Visions has expanded digitally, building modern tools that empower leaders within schools and key influencers across the school system.

Our core product (Portal by New Visions) is a web-based, enterprise school management application, used by educators within schools and across the school system. The application consolidates essential student data into a modern web interface, surfacing key indicators related to student progress. It highlights critical areas where attention is needed on the student level, and contextualizes that information across a school or network of schools.

The Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Product Manager who will work closely with a passionate, welcoming group of engineers, designers, data scientists, and stakeholders, who can bring the cross-functional effort together from start to finish.

This is an exciting opportunity to have an impact on a mission-driven organization, founded in equity, with ambitious goals to influence a long-established industry. In this role, you will join the product team to help evangelize product-driven best practices across the organization and participate in solving complex problems for a scaling enterprise application.

Who You Are

• You are skilled at facilitating conversations to accomplish your goals
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and can communicate complex and nuanced concepts to audiences with varied technical backgrounds
• You have strong analytical skills and can crystallize stakeholder insights into clear user needs that the stakeholders themselves may not be able to articulate
• You've led user research initiatives for large, complex projects and have experience using both qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions
• You've led solution discovery for large, complex projects and understand how to create simple user interfaces
• You can clearly communicate the rationale behind your decisions and can influence the decision making of others through persuasion
• You are a tenacious leader, and can motivate a team to keep initiatives moving forward despite challenges and roadblocks
• You are highly organized and pay close attention to the details, but also have a strong aptitude for big-picture thinking
• You are self-driven and thrive in a fast-paced environment where multitasking is key
• You are excited about public service and the prospect of solving problems that are challenging and affect urban schools everywhere

What You'll Do

• Deeply understand our programmatic work with schools in your product area; identify user and business problems and opportunities across a wide range of inputs
• Fully own and implement the product strategy in your product area that clearly prioritizes the highest impact work, and align senior stakeholders towards that vision
• Manage competing priorities with consistency and transparency, collaborating with teams throughout the organization to ensure feature adoption and success
• Conduct user research to surface and distill complex user needs into tangible problems to solve; define and frame those problems for the team
• Collaborate with designers, data analysts, and engineers in solution discovery, testing and validating assumptions through constant iteration
• Manage the entire software development life cycle using agile software development methodologies
• Evangelize a product-driven process across a long-established organization that is undergoing a digital transformation

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, education; or training in a technology or business related field
• 4+ years of experience in product management at technology driven organizations with enterprise products
• Agile product management experience, including knowledge of one or more methodologies (particularly SCRUM or Kanban)
• Great product managers can come from a variety of backgrounds, and New Visions is open-minded to relevant experience and education

Nice to Have

• Experience with product metrics and KPIs, using various quantitative and qualitative ways to unearth product opportunities and validate ideas
• Experience using tools to manage software delivery, roadmapping, whiteboarding, and data analytics (Jira, Product Board, Miro, Airtable, Google Sheets, Google Analytics, Kibana, etc.)
• Knowledge of NYC public school system and educator pain points and needs

Benefits

Employees receive 100% coverage of comprehensive medical and dental premiums with a considerable cost-share for dependants. New Visions also invests in employee's future by providing a generous 8% contribution to employee's 403(b) retirement account after only one year of service and employees benefit from a generous PTO plan that starts at 4 weeks along with 12 annual holidays. Additional benefits include (eligibility requirements vary) gym reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, employee referral awards, back-up childcare, corporate discount programs, and much more!

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Who We Are

At New Visions for Public Schools, we work to make great public schools common in New York City. We believe that all of New York City's students deserve public schools that make successful futures possible, especially Black, Latinx, and low-income students who have historically had inequitable access to a great public education. Since 1989, New Visions has been a driving force behind some of the most significant reforms to public education in New York City. Today, our diverse team of professionals develop and scale innovative tools and approaches that help educators address common challenges. Learn more about New Visions HERE.

We operate ten public charter schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens and, as a trusted partner of the NYC DOE, we help 1,600 public district schools plan for the success of over a million students citywide. In 2020-21, graduation rates in our Charter and Affinity networks were 95.4% and 89.2% and our support for postsecondary readiness has expanded exponentially.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of New Visions that all employees and applicants for employment will be treated in all respects on the basis of their merit and qualifications and without regards to their race, color, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, gender, military status, marital status, ancestry, or any other reason prohibited by law.

New Visions believes that our teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all employees. We also recognize that perspectives from communities that have been historically marginalized are critical to the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from individuals living in the communities that we serve or who are members of historically marginalized communities.

New Visions provides a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package in addition to the opportunity to make a significant impact on education reform and in the lives of urban youth.