Group Product Manager, NextGen

Role overview Lead product strategy across a portfolio of higher education administration software while directly owning one or more products. This player-coach role combines hands-on discovery and delivery with mentoring a small product management team and coordinating work across engineering, design, and customer-facing groups.

Responsibilities - Own product discovery, requirements, prioritization, and delivery for assigned solutions in partnership with engineering and design. - Set portfolio vision and roadmaps that connect institutional needs with business goals; look for opportunities to link workflows, integrations, and data across products. - Coach and develop product managers, establish clear expectations, and help grow the team. - Use customer feedback, product data, and research to validate decisions and improve experiences for administrators, students, and families. - Coordinate launches with sales, marketing, implementation, and support, and align with engineering on architecture, quality, and delivery trade-offs. - Explore practical AI applications that reduce manual work and simplify student-facing processes.

Requirements - Product leadership experience, including direct ownership of products from discovery through launch. - Ability to lead and mentor product managers while maintaining strong individual product execution. - Skill in setting product strategy, prioritizing roadmaps, and connecting decisions to measurable outcomes. - Strong collaboration and communication across technical, commercial, and customer-facing teams. - Ability to make sound decisions amid changing priorities and incomplete information. - A close, evidence-based approach to understanding customer needs and validating product choices.

Benefits and work setup The source describes medical, dental, and vision coverage; health and dependent-care accounts; paid time off; retirement and student loan repayment support; tuition reimbursement; incentive pay; insurance and wellness programs.