Product Manager

Lambda School is on a mission to pioneer a new model of accessible higher education with no upfront costs and where the school invests in the students instead of the other way around.  We are rethinking learning so that we can address the needs of both students and employers in tandem. We’re a progressive alternative to traditional college and fast track bootcamps. Lambda School is an intensive program and an immersive live, online curriculum that teaches people the hard and soft skills they need to launch a new tech career. We offer both full time and part time courses to our students.

Lambda School has successfully completed funding rounds with premier tier venture investors and we have students in almost every State across the United States. We’re looking for passionate, talented people who want to change the way the world thinks about higher education and unlock human potential, regardless of circumstance. 

If that sounds exciting to you, let’s talk.  Our success depends on building teams who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we don’t just accept differences – we celebrate them. Lambda School welcomes a diverse pool of applicants, including those from historically marginalized groups and non-traditional backgrounds who can appreciate the diverse student communities that we serve and are looking to grow into. This includes women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, veterans, and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Lambda School’s approach to product management is rooted in a deep understanding of our customers: our students, admissions, student success, instruction, and career services. You’ll learn about our customers’ operations, identify the most meaningful problems that we could solve for them, and develop a product vision that maximizes the value we can deliver to our students.

What you'll do:

• Operate at the intersection of design, engineering, student operations, and learning to design and execute on a product strategy

• Listen to the customers, whether they are students, hiring partners or Lambda School staff, and derive insights from them. 

• Perform qualitative and quantitative research to discover feature ideas and validate them before development

• Create roadmaps for delivering experiences by identifying the questions and objectives that drive each project.

• Clearly communicate product vision and strategy, get all members of the cross-functional team aligned and motivated

• Proactively identify and implement operational improvements and enhancements

What you’ll need:

• Significant product management experience leading products from the conception of the idea through the full development lifecycle.

• Continuous discovery mentality - talking to customers to validate your own assumptions about the needs of a product

• Track record of effectively prioritizing, communicating and coordinating efforts across teams

• An experimentation mindset - using data to incrementally iterate on both products and processes

• Experience using a customer-centric approach to identifying product needs.

• Experience using analytics and data to inform product decisions and measure post-launch impact

• Experience defining and running an efficient product development process, knowing that no process is a silver bullet.

• Willingness to respond rapidly to change based on feedback, knowing that what is true today in the product, the school, and the customers might not be true tomorrow.

Lambda School is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Lambda School is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability.