Vice President, Product Operations

Power School creates connected K-12 technology that helps schools work more effectively and advance student outcomes. The Vice President, Product Operations turns that purpose into disciplined, scalable execution across the Product organization.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this leader owns the product operating model connecting multi-year strategy, investment, planning, execution, commercialization, and performance. The role defines how Product operates, governs decisions, and aligns resources over 2-4 year horizons, then translates those choices into annual and quarterly commitments with clear accountability and measurable outcomes.

What You Will Lead

Product Strategy and Operating Model

• Own and evolve the Product operating model, connecting 2-4 year strategic priorities with portfolio investment, roadmaps, capacity, execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Set the enterprise Product planning framework, translating long-range strategy into annual operating plans and quarterly priorities across Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
• Define and enforce operating rhythms, decision rights, governance standards, and escalation paths that increase accountability, speed, and execution discipline.

Portfolio Governance and Investment

• Own portfolio visibility and executive governance for the CPO and leadership team, including investment, capacity, dependencies, risks, strategic tradeoffs, and performance.
• Establish and govern consistent criteria for new investment, acceleration, continued investment, consolidation, and product retirement.
• Own the product investment process, requiring business cases to connect market opportunity, customer value, strategic fit, cost, capacity, risk, and expected returns.
• Drive portfolio prioritization across growth, customer commitments, innovation, technical investment, compliance, and enterprise needs, surfacing tradeoffs to the appropriate executive owner.

Monetization and Commercialization

• Own Product governance for pricing, packaging, monetization, and commercialization, defining decision processes, required inputs, and accountability across Product, Finance, Sales, and Marketing.
• Set and enforce launch-readiness standards, decision gates, and post-launch accountability for major product initiatives.
• Establish lifecycle governance from investment and development through growth, optimization, consolidation, and retirement.

Product Intelligence and Performance

• Own the enterprise product performance framework, defining metrics and review mechanisms that connect product activity with customer, operational, and business outcomes.
• Set executive reporting standards across adoption, engagement, retention, growth, financial performance, delivery predictability, portfolio health, and multi-year strategic objectives.
• Require corrective action when performance falls below expectations, ensuring Product leaders identify root causes, define recovery plans, and track results through governance.

Cross-Functional Execution and Leadership

• Serve as the executive operating leader across Product and key cross-functional interfaces, aligning Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Services, and other functions around shared commitments and decision rights.
• Identify and remove systemic barriers that slow decisions or execution, while preserving clear accountability within Product teams and escalating enterprise tradeoffs to the appropriate decision owner.
• Build and lead the Product Operations organization, setting clear accountabilities and talent expectations across planning, analytics, portfolio management, commercialization, and operational excellence.
• Set the standard for business-case discipline, outcome-based…