Senior Product Manager

Data Kind is looking for a Senior Product Manager (Remote - U.S.)!

This is a remote position that can be based anywhere in the U.S. and requires the majority of working hours each day to fall between 8am and 6pm Eastern Time. This position requires travel across the United States, expected at about 10–20% of working days (roughly 2–4 days per month), mostly on-site at higher education institutions or conferences.

$113,000 - $125,000 annual salary. Final salary within this range will be based on the candidate’s experience and internal equity with team members in similar roles.

Reporting to the Director, Product Management, the Senior Product Manager owns product strategy and outcomes for one of Data Kind’s strategic domains, such as Education or our open source products. This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll set direction for your domain, make the calls on priorities and tradeoffs, and be accountable for whether our products deliver for institutions, students, and funders.

You’ll work closely with educational institutions, Engineering, Data Science, and Implementation, and you’ll help raise the bar for product practice across the team.

Set the multi-quarter product strategy and roadmap for your domain, and own the tradeoffs: what we build, what we defer, and why. Ground decisions in user evidence, technical dependencies, resourcing, and impact.

Lead user discovery with users and teams to ground priorities in evidence.

Own product decisions for your domain with minimal oversight. Escalate only portfolio-level or cross-domain conflicts to the Director.

Shape product direction with Engineering so architecture choices reflect long-term product vision, scalability, and user needs.

Turn the institutional needs and implementation challenges raised by partners into a coherent strategic product direction, not a backlog of requests.

Define what success looks like for each release and partner with the Technical Project Management function.

Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to keep the team’s work tied to product priorities.

Work with the Project Management owners to set realistic commitments with partners, and lead conversations with partners and stakeholders when scope or priorities need to change.

Partner with Design and Engineering to build intuitive experiences for data management and system configuration.

Define integration requirements with third‑party tools.

Define success metrics for your domain, covering adoption, usage, and impact on student outcomes, and use them to drive roadmap decisions.

Build reporting that shows value to institutional partners, internal leaders, and funders, including grant reporting.

Contribute to portfolio strategy with the Director, Product Management, including cross‑product initiatives and investment decisions.

Represent your domain to donors, funders, and partner leadership by presenting progress, impact, and roadmap.

Align Data Science, Engineering, Implementation, and Program teams around shared priorities, and resolve competing asks among them.

Coach and mentor peers, and lead improvements to how the product team runs discovery, prioritization, and decision documentation.

Lead go‑to‑market readiness for your domain, including documentation, training materials, and partner onboarding.

• Deep alignment with Data Kind's mission and values, and demonstrated commitment to educational equity and data‑driven social impact
• 6+ years of product management experience with Agile methodologies, including end‑to‑end ownership of a product line or domain from discovery through launch…