About Our Client

Special education runs on spreadsheets, notebooks, and hallway conversations — and it shouldn't. Schools are legally required to deliver individualized services to students with disabilities, but what happens after an IEP is approved is largely invisible and chaotic: services get missed, compliance risk surfaces only after a parent complains, and educators burn out maintaining personal shadow systems just to keep up.

Three things we hear in nearly every customer conversation: compliance exposure (schools face significant legal liability when they can't document service delivery), admin burden (teachers and providers spend hours on paperwork that doesn't serve students), and lack of visibility (administrators are flying blind — they can't see what's happening without chasing individual reports).

Our client is a modern, AI native, purpose built tool for special education. Teachers and service providers easily log every session, track IEP goal progress, and surface compliance risk before it becomes a crisis. Administrators get real-time visibility across their schools and districts, something they’re sorely lacking today.

We're a founder-led team with deep roots in EdTech: a CEO who has built and sold to schools at scale, a President who took a school-first GTM motion from zero to $10M and a 2025 exit, and a CTO with production AI experience. We have our first signed customers, a live product launching in August, and a pipeline of schools actively evaluating. This is the ground floor.

About the Role

Looking for a Product Manager to help build an AI-native product that educators trust and return to every day.

You will work closely with our engineering, design, and founding team to turn user feedback, expert input, and product data into a sharper, more useful, and more engaging product. You will help us understand what educators need, prioritize what we build, define how we measure success, and make sure we are learning quickly from real usage.

Because our client is an AI-native company, we expect this person to be excited about using AI heavily in their own workflow. That might include accelerating research synthesis, prototyping ideas, analyzing feedback, drafting specs, exploring edge cases, improving internal processes, or finding new ways to move faster and think more rigorously. Looking for someone who sees AI not only as the product being built, but as a core part of how great product work gets done.

Success in this role means that, over the first 6 to 12 months, our product becomes easier to use, more valuable to special education teams, and more consistently embedded in their daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the product roadmap, translating user feedback, business priorities, expert guidance, and product data into clear priorities
• Work closely with school partners, educators, and industry experts to understand real-world special education workflows and pain points
• Identify opportunities to deepen user engagement, retention, and trust through analysis, experimentation, and user research
• Use AI tools extensively to accelerate product thinking, research synthesis, documentation, prototyping, and analysis
• Partner closely with designers and engineers from discovery through delivery
• Define success metrics for key product areas and use those metrics to guide decisions
• Talk to users regularly, synthesize what you learn, and share clear takeaways with the team
• Help shape product processes as we grow, including how we prioritize, ship, measure, and learn
• Balance speed and quality in a fast-moving, early-stage environment

What We’re Looking For

• Excited to build AI-native software and thoughtful about where AI can create real value for users
• Active user of AI tools, with a desire to keep improving how they are used in day-to-day work
• Deeply attentive to how a product feels, not just how it functions
• Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information
• Data-informed, with the ability to ask better questions, identify patterns, and make stronger product decisions
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and creating structure where it does not yet exist
• Clear, direct, and collaborative communicator
• Energized by working closely with users, experts, and early partners to build something that reflects how work actually happens
• Motivated by the opportunity to build a product that serves educators and students

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a Product Management role
• Experience working directly with product designers and engineers
• Strong comfort with quantitative data, including pulling insights, identifying patterns, and acting on them
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship

Nice to Haves

• Experience at an early-stage startup
• Experience in EdTech, SaaS, workflow software, or AI-powered products

Benefits

• Competitive base salary starting at $110k+ (DOE)
• Equity
• Health benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Home office stipend (plus a provided company laptop)
• Fully remote team (with candidates required to live within the United States)

Why Join

Special education teams do some of the most important and demanding work in schools, often without the tools or support they need. Our client exists to make that work more manageable, more compliant, and more centered on helping students reach their potential.