Senior Growth Product Manager

At Watermark, we partner with institutions of higher education to improve student learning and institutional quality with proven, reliable, and user-friendly assessment management and e-portfolio solutions and supporting services. Watermark is a recognized leader in student assessment, portfolio and accreditation. We serve over 1,700 institutions and close to a million students across the country.

About Us
We’ve spent the last 20 years helping thousands of colleges and universities spend less time collecting data and more time learning from it. Watermark is a global, high-growth SaaS provider of assessment software for higher education institutions worldwide including the majority of the top 200 U.S. News & World Report colleges. There is a reason we’ve won EdTech’s Overall Higher EdTech Solution of the Year! Recently, we celebrated being named a winner for The Edtech Breakthrough, The TITAN Business, and the Stevie Award. We’re just getting started! Our phenomenal team of people is at the heart of everything we do and we hope you’ll join us.

About The Role
The Senior Growth Product Manager plays a leading role in shaping the strategic direction of Watermark's product growth initiatives, determining which bets to pursue, which pivot or preserve, and how the product growth team's efforts connect to broader portfolio and business strategy. They personally take on the most complex or ambiguous opportunities and serve as a bridge between the growth team and the core product management team. They partner closely with product growth leadership to build the growth discipline, define the investment thesis for new AI-powered product lines, and ensure the growth team operates with speed, rigor, and commercial focus. As the growth team evolves, they also guide the expansion into traditional growth motions across existing products.
Key Responsibilities
• Shape and maintain the product growth team’s initiatives, balancing big bets on new AI-powered product concepts with targeted growth work across existing products; make deliberate investment and prioritization decisions
• Personally lead the most complex, ambiguous, or strategically significant growth initiatives from concept through early commercialization
• Define the growth team's approach to experimentation, validation, and scaling, establishing frameworks and standards that enable speed without sacrificing rigor
• Develop the investment thesis for new product concepts in partnership with growth leadership, grounding recommendations in market analysis, customer insight, AI capability trends, and commercial opportunity
• Set the bar for how AI is applied within the product growth team's work, both as a core capability embedded in new products and as a tool the team uses to accelerate every phase of concept development
• Own the relationship between the growth team and core product management, ensuring validated concepts are handed off cleanly and integrated effectively into existing product lines
• Track and report on growth portfolio performance, including pipeline health, concept velocity, early revenue metrics, and overall contribution to new ARR; use data to continuously refine the portfolio
• Collaborate with go-to-market, sales, and client success leaders to ensure growth initiatives are positioned for commercial traction from the earliest stages
• Mentor growth product managers, providing coaching on product craft, AI fluency, experimentation rigor, and stakeholder management
• Represent the growth team's perspective in cross-functional and leadership forums, building organizational understanding of and support for growth investments
Required Skills and Experience
• 6+ years in product management with progressive expansion of responsibility, including meaningful experience in 0-to-1 product development, growth, or new ventures (EdTech or SaaS experience a plus)
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Deep fluency with the AI/ML landscape, emerging capabilities, and practical product applications; demonstrated experience leading AI-powered product initiatives
• Proven ability to manage a portfolio of high-uncertainty initiatives, making sound investment and prioritization decisions with incomplete information
• Strong track record of taking new product concepts from idea to revenue
• Technical literacy sufficient to evaluate AI integration approaches, challenge technical assumptions, and engage in substantive technical dialogue
• Experience building or scaling a growth function, including establishing frameworks, processes, and team norms
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to define, track, and act on early-stage and commercial metrics
• This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Watermark is committed to fair and equitable pay practices for all qualified candidates. The pay range for this role is $130K to $140K with significant consideration given to the level of experience related to the required skills of the role followed by education/ licensure/certificates, geographical location of the individual filling the role and other business and operational considerations.

At Watermark we are continually strengthening the rich diversity in our workplace - the primary reason we succeed. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment and work together to provide an inclusive hiring experience where all qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, protected military/veteran status, or any other non-merit based or other legally protected grounds.