Senior Product Manager

All About Aeries

Aeries is a leading EdTech company with a data-driven Student Information System (SIS) used by over 750 K-12 school districts with millions of users throughout California and Texas. With a rich history of innovation and a proven track record of developing software focused on the whole student, Aeries ensures that student data empowers success and never impedes.

At Aeries, our mission is to deliver data-driven, intuitive, and innovative solutions that unite learning communities to advance student success. We believe strongly in the supporting role of technology in education but recognize that there’s no replacement for the wisdom and determination of the real people supporting students’ academic successes every day. That’s why our goal is to build tools that allow educators to focus on what they do best: educating.

About the Job

Activity Hero is an expanded learning / before-and-after-school platform, now integrated with Aeries SIS. The Activity Hero Senior Product Manager is a high-autonomy product leader who drives complex, multi-stakeholder product initiatives independently, from discovery through delivery. The Sr PM proactively identifies opportunities, builds conviction through research and customer evidence, and executes across ambiguous and fast-moving environments with confidence. This role owns one or more complex solution areas within the Activity Hero platform and is accountable for outcomes end-to-end.

The Sr PM navigates competing priorities, resolves cross-functional dependencies, and makes high-impact trade-off decisions without requiring escalation. They bring strong judgment, a bias for action, and the ability to drive clarity for teams and stakeholders when inputs are incomplete or conditions are shifting.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute the product roadmap for the Activity Hero platform in alignment with company goals and customer needs.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, customer experience, and sales teams to deliver high-quality product features.
• Manage scrum and release cycles with the remote engineering team
• Define product requirements and user stories, ensuring clarity for the development team.
• Prioritize features based on impact, feasibility, and customer feedback.
• Monitor product performance, gather feedback, and iterate to improve user experience.
• Own beta and pilot program strategy, including customer selection, evaluation criteria, and synthesis. Maintain deep expertise in K-12 district personas specifically in the expanded learning space.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, competitive analysis, and opportunity assessment, and to draft requirements and stakeholder communications luate and recommend AI/ML capabilities for integration into the SIS platform, and champion AI literacy across the product team.
• Drive cross-functional and cross-divisional alignment independently to build consensus on shared priorities. Lead go-to-market alignment with cross-functional teams and own the post-launch feedback loop with Customer Success to synthesize learnings back into discovery.
• Engage with customers and external stakeholders at conferences and advisory sessions.
• Identify and close gaps in product development workflows and tooling, establishing standardized processes and driving consistent adoption across the team.
• Build and maintain dashboards and KPI tracking to ensure leadership visibility into product performance, customer feedback trends, and feature impact.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of B2B SaaS Product Management experience, with demonstrated expertise in customer research, discovery, and prototype-based validation.
• Demonstrated experience in K-12 EdTech, Student Information Systems, or education administration software…