Director of Product, ELA

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

As a Director of Product, ELA at Kiddom, you’ll be part of a close-knit cross-functional team including engineering, design, product marketing, content, sales, and customer success—working together to build a truly impactful platform. You will drive Kiddom’s goal of making high-quality ELA curricula both accessible and user-friendly, reducing the friction of implementation and ensuring better outcomes for students. Your product development work will innovate on both the teacher and student experience—creating innovative tools for an interactive experience, partnering with AI senior researchers to build AI tools, scaffolding for diverse learners, and new ways to visualize student progress in real-time. You will be the loudest champion using your business acumen and in-depth understanding of our customers to set a clear vision and strategy for your projects. Your skills will be put to the test navigating complex state adoption requirements as well as navigating large XXm district sales. Our GTM teams will thrive working with you ownership and independence.

Requirements

• Extensive experience setting an agile roadmap and bringing products to market.
• Passion for building product experiences that impact teachers and students.
• Background in education and/or edtech is ideal (but not required).
• Ability to navigate complex state adoption requirements.
• Experience working with large district sales.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on your product area (ELA) through market research, GTM feedback, data-driven insights, creating product differentiation to most impactfully serve customer needs.
• Develop a strategic plan for building a best-in-class ELA product in partnership with Partner curriculum.
• Propose the principles, roadmap, resourcing structure, and go-to-market approach necessary to realize an engaging, impactful, and scalable ELA product solution.
• Guide products throughout the state adoption cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions for districts across the country.
• Experiment with new tools to advance the boundaries of how education leaders understand and guide their schools, staff, and students.
• Transition a traditionally paper-driven curricular experience to a transformative best-in-class digital experience.