Course Hero
Lead Product Manager - Platform and Internal Tools
🇺🇸 Hybrid - CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $181,000 - $245,000
💻 Product Development
🗓️ March 27th, 2024
AI Machine Learning PythonCourse Hero is scaling! As a Rotational Lead Product Manager spearheading our Platform and Internal Tools group within the Core Products department at Course Hero, you'll play a pivotal role in driving key strategic goals while fostering collaboration across Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal/Compliance, Design, Machine Learning, and Engineering teams. Your extensive experience and technical prowess will be instrumental in elevating our platform and optimizing internal processes. Moreover, as an RPM, you'll have the unique opportunity to champion the development of new AI-focused learning products within our AI Study Tools group, while also extending your impact beyond departmental boundaries by collaborating with our Growth group to drive monetization and expansion initiatives.
Here are some ways you’ll make an impact
- Understand Course Hero's strategic and competitive position. Set your team’ goals and success metrics that align with Course Hero's mission and drive maximum impact based on data analysis, market research, and usability studies
- Set an incredibly clear and ambitious vision that motivates and inspires your team, peers, and leadership
- Deliver on this vision by setting your teams’ goals, success metrics, and roadmap and collaborating extremely effectively across the company
- Completely own your teams’ products, existing or new, from ideation, through development, to experiment, launch, growth, and maintenance, caring deeply about our users
- Work closely with teams of engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, operations, and business partners to build new products and experiences that attract and retain users
- Communicate clearly roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from partner teams to executive levels
Are you our Lead Product Manager?
- 5+ years experience in product management, product design, or equivalent consultant experience
- Passion for Course Hero and what we are trying to achieve with our mission to help all students graduate confident and prepared
- Natural ability to make things happen around you. You manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way. Be able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products
- Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences
- Experience leading post-launch optimizations including developing testing strategies
- Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you
- Attend Product Development days 2x per month for in person collaboration at our Redwood City HQ or Vancouver, Canada
Bonus Points
- Have a quantitative degree. An academic background in Computer Science or related engineering discipline is a plus
- Experience with gaming, marketplace products, aggregators, and network effects
- Experience in crafting products powered by Machine Learning and AI
- Hands-on experience conducting quantitative product/business analysis using Python or R, and SQL
- Experience building 0-1 products
Benefits & Perks!
- Competitive salary, annual bonus, and RSUs
- Medical coverage, including full dental and vision
- Life and disability benefits
- 401(k) program (US) / retirement savings plan (Canada) with company match
- One month paid sabbatical after 5 years at the company
- Education reimbursement
- Professional development workshops & industry conferences
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Social responsibility program (volunteer time off and donation matching)
- Annual wellness stipend
- Monthly tech stipend
- Annual family planning stipend
- Quarterly snack boxes delivered to your door
- Cell phone allowance
For positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Other locations: IL, MA, NJ.
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. We strongly encourage you to apply if you're interested: we'd love to learn how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
We are a virtual-first company and have employees dispersed throughout the United States and Canada. We have a market-based pay structure that varies by location. The base pay for this position is dependent on multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed below. You may also be eligible to participate in our bonus program and may be offered an equity award, benefits, and other types of compensation.
This role is eligible for hire in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vancouver, Canada, or Toronto, Canada.
In accordance with Canadian law, the base salary for this role if filled within Canada is as follows.
Canada Pay Range
$138,000—$186,000 CAD
In accordance with California law, the base salary for this role if filled within SF Bay Area, California is as follows.
SF Bay Area, California Pay Range
$181,000—$245,000 USD
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Course Hero:
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate, confident and prepared. The online learning platform offers over 60 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 65,000 verified college educators use Course Hero to collaborate with other faculty and share resources to hone new strategies for instruction. Everyday, students, educators and tutors help more than 20 million students make every study hour count.
Join us on our mission!
