Senior Product Manager | SaaS & Innovation| Reston, VA

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff.

Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement.

Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

As part of Ellucian’s Student Success product portfolio, this role is responsible for leading multiple of Ellucian’s most strategic, high-growth products that support institutions in improving student outcomes and operational effectiveness.

The Senior Product Manager II will operate as the end-to-end business owner for their product area, accountable not only for product strategy and roadmap execution, but also for driving adoption, revenue growth, scalability, and long-term market success. This role requires a strong product leader who thrives in ambiguity, builds from discovery through enterprise scale, and partners cross-functionally to deliver measurable business impact.

This is a highly visible individual contributor role that requires strategic thinking, strong execution discipline, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence across engineering, design, marketing, sales, finance, and customer-facing teams.

• Define and evolve the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap aligned to Ellucian’s Student Success objectives and overall company strategy.
• Identify market opportunities, competitive differentiation, and growth levers to expand market share and product adoption.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable product initiatives that drive measurable business results.

• Own the holistic success of your product(s), including product performance, growth, adoption, and overall business impact.
• Partner with enablement, sales, marketing, finance, and customer success to support pricing strategy, packaging evolution, sales effectiveness, and expansion opportunities.
• Monitor product health through KPIs (ARR growth, adoption, retention, unit expansion, customer outcomes) and proactively drive optimization initiatives.

• Lead product discovery through deep customer research, institutional engagement, and data analysis to uncover unmet needs.
• Drive solution definition, experience design, and iterative delivery in close partnership with engineering and UX.
• Ensure successful go-to-market planning, launch readiness, and post-launch performance tracking.
• Scale early-stage or high-growth products into enterprise-grade, secure, reliable, and scalable SaaS solutions.

• Identify and embed AI-driven capabilities that enhance user outcomes, improve institutional decision-making, and create competitive differentiation.
• Leverage AI tools and modern product technologies to improve product discovery, prioritization, and delivery efficiency.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to responsibly implement AI features that align with customer trust, compliance, and data governance standards.

• Act as the connective leader across engineering, design, marketing, sales, finance, and customer success to ensure alignment and execution excellence.
• Influence without direct authority, building strong partnerships to drive outcomes across teams.
• Clearly communicate product strategy, trade-offs, performance metrics, and investment…