Director Product Management - Literacy Solutions

About Renaissance

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre‑K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of U.S. schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Renaissance strives to be a leader in the Literacy space by creating flexible solutions that meet the assessment and instructional needs of customers. As Director of Product Management you will develop short and long‑term product strategy and collaborate cross‑functionally to build consensus and ensure execution. You will coordinate the work of GTM teams and represent the needs of Literacy across the Renaissance organization.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate on the Literacy solution vision and strategy. Own Literacy product strategy in the U.S. market, working closely with Product teams to plan roadmaps. Collaborate with other product teams to drive strategic integrations. Create a short‑term, medium‑term, long‑term strategic plan for the Literacy solution.
• Define, track, analyze, and take action on key metrics for Literacy solutions to assess the effectiveness of cross‑functional efforts.
• Foster cross‑functional collaboration and motivation of the Literacy solution team to align market research, product developments, internal resources, and enablement support, and external resources and customer education.
• Serve as SME for Literacy product developments and product‑related GTM conversations and actions.
• Support overall product road mapping across the organization to ensure alignment and accountability to the evolving solution.
• Drive M&A activity in the Literacy space across the portfolio, ensuring alignment, business value, and organizational implementation.
• Communicate clearly and efficiently with stakeholders about strategy, progress, and needs at the VP and SVP level.
• Has a deep understanding of the market—customer needs, trends, competition—and stays up‑to‑date on industry trends to ensure they are reflected in product and solution strategy.
• Has deep product knowledge across solution and acts as a product expert for both internal and external audiences (product demos, trainings, integration planning).
• Has a solid understanding of Renaissance strategy, business practices, products, services, audience, and how they relate to own work.
• Has and can build strong relationships across teams to collaborate, motivate, influence, and represent team accomplishments and needs across Renaissance.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four‑year college or university.
• 5+ years product management or product strategy experience.

• Proficient with MS Office and Google Drive applications.
• Willingness to learn new technology skills and tools.
• Familiar with virtual meeting software.

• Deep understanding of foundational literacy ecosystem in the U.S.
• An ability to think creatively and outside the box.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Transparency, trust, learning, and team spirit are at the core of our work together.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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• World Class
  
  Health Benefits:
  
  Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off.
• 12 Paid Holidays.
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Life & Disability Insurance.
• Well‑being and Employee Assistance Programs.

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