Ascend Learning
Sr Technical Product Manager
🇺🇸 Remote - Leawood, KS
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Product Development
🗓️ December 3rd, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ascend Learning is hiring a Sr Technical Product Manager for its Clover Learning brand. The role involves developing and managing a strategic platform roadmap, coordinating with product and technology teams, and enhancing platform capabilities through data-driven decision-making to support long-term business objectives.
Highlights
- Develop and execute long-term strategic platform roadmap aligned with Ascend strategy and market trends.
- Act as a subject matter expert for nursing and leverage market data and customer feedback for platform improvements.
- Collaborate with Capability TPMs, Business Product Owners, and Product Delivery Teams for prioritizing requirements and alignment.
- Provide guidance to development teams and manage feature prioritization and product increment cycles in agile environments.
- Requires 8+ years of experience in product management or related fields and familiarity with agile methodologies.
- Strong technical acumen combined with deep market and customer understanding.
- Proven expertise in managing complex strategic roadmaps with multiple dependencies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related areas.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off, medical and dental insurance, 401(k) matching, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.
Sr Technical Product Manager Full Description
Sr Technical Product Manager
Job Category: Technical Product Management
Requisition Number: SRTEC006136
Full-Time
Leawood, KS 66211, USA
Job Details
Description
We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture
Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.
Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.
We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.
Clover Learning, Inc., an Ascend Learning brand, is a pioneer in online healthcare education for the diagnostic imaging field. Founded in 2017, Clover Learning has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, offering engaging video lessons, quizzes, assessments, and certification exam prep tools. Clover Learning's mission is to transform students into professionals and professionals into experts through personalized, innovative, and accessible online education.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
The Sr Technical Product Manager (TPM) position will help Clover Learning, Inc., an Ascend Learning brand, achieve a more strategic, effective, and streamlined approach to platform management, by having a dedicated role accountable for developing and managing the long-term platform strategy and roadmap. This role is designed to simplify technology prioritization and minimize hand-offs across Product and Tech teams.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This position offers the flexibility of remote work within the United States.
HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME
- Develop and execute long-term strategic platform roadmap in alignment with overall Ascend strategy and objectives and market trends.
- Ensure roadmap is inclusive of and enables clear implementation.
- Bring deep expertise in platforms and capabilities to the enterprise. Act as SME for nursing. Leverage market data trends and customer feedback to improve overall platform and capability maturity and effectiveness as part of long-term roadmap, making data-driven trade-offs between product and core capability enhancements. Support efforts to ensure accurate and deeply connected integrated roadmaps.
- Work closely with Capability TPMs, Business Product Owners and Product Delivery Teams to review, rationalize, and prioritize requirements from different solution areas. Guide, educate and support Product Delivery Teams as needed to ensure alignment to customer and strategic value/priorities.
- Own, oversee, and provide regular updates to relevant stakeholders on product development.
- Provide guidance to development teams responsible for product build and maintenance.
- Plan, manage and prioritize features and product increment cycles (PIs) for agile development, as needed.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or other areas combined with relevant work experience (relevant work experience alone may provide sufficient experience)
- 8+ years of combined experience in product management, technical product management, business management, or consulting, preferably in a technical or software-related environment
- Experience working in an agile environment is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with data analysis, market research related to SaaS/technology trends, and customer feedback methodologies to inform capability decisions
- Proven ability in managing a complex strategic roadmap with multiple dependencies.
- Proven communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively collaborate with product teams, engineers, content teams, and other stakeholders
- Combines strong technical acumen with deep understanding of the customer/markets being served
- Strong understanding of software development principles, technologies and agile methodologies
- Proven expertise in making critical technology-related decisions and trade-offs to drive overall business value and capability effectiveness
- Ability to align capability roadmap with product requirements and overall business objectives
- Ability to derive insights from technical trends/capabilities to champion improvements to the capability
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong project management skills to oversee development of capability requirements.
- Proven expertise in capability area for which he/she is responsible (e.g., Assessment, Instructional Content)
- Demonstrated leadership to provide technical leadership and guidance to capability development teams
BENEFITS
- Flexible and generous paid time off
- Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(k) employer matching program
- Parental leave
- Wellness resources
- Charitable matching program
- Hybrid work
- On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
- Community outreach groups
- Tuition reimbursement
Fostering A Sense of Belonging
We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.
About Ascend Learning
As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.
About Clover Learning
Clover Learning, Inc., an Ascend Learning brand, is a pioneer in online healthcare education for the diagnostic imaging field. Founded in 2017, Clover Learning has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, offering engaging video lessons, quizzes, assessments, and certification exam prep tools. Clover Learning's mission is to transform students into professionals and professionals into experts through personalized, innovative, and accessible online education.
Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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