Job Overview:
An ExploreLearning Project Manager will drive initiatives that innovate product features and sustain product growth for our award-winning educational products. In this role, you’ll be a key member of the product team, ensuring that our work is aligned with the needs of our customers and peer departments (sales, marketing, support, and professional development), coordinating across teams to provide actionable plans and predictable delivery. To succeed in this position, you should be an excellent communicator, excel at critical thinking, and have experience leading custom software projects.
Job Responsibilities:
Provide a single point of contact for product changes, and manage sustained product growth
Implement efficient processes across Software Development Life Cycle phases.
Coordinate and curate intake of product change requests.
Document objectives and requirements, organizing a prioritized backlog of feasible improvements.
Clarify business use cases, importance, and impact on customer experience.
Coordinate and communicate work commitments and change management across the company.
Consult on customers’ technical questionnaires covering security, privacy, and product behavior.
Evaluate escalated customer questions about products and technical integrations.
Drive strategic product/functional innovations, bridging curriculum/SMEs and technical teams.
Provide domain expertise and broker product decisions.
Clarify development priorities and direct the vision of success for the project.
Articulate, negotiate, and communicate backlogs based on stakeholder feedback.
Plan how to get the work done and break down initiatives into time-based tasks/phases.
Coordinate who needs to be involved across departments, at the appropriate time, and organize feedback.
Manage vendor engagements and project governance.
Identify and coordinate response to program/delivery risks.
Govern and report progress toward testing/program milestones.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in technology, engineering, business, or related discipline.
5+ years of experience as a project manager, managing software development projects.
Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.
Experienced in delivering software through all lifecycle phases and overseeing multi-function project teams, including the technical background to provide highly credible leadership to development teams.
Experienced creating actionable project schedules and resource plans using project management software. Negotiated project delays, risks, and changes in project scope.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Motivate and steer across organizational boundaries/titles, applying persuasion, negotiation, and compromise to resolve conflict.
Demonstrated ability to write concise technical requirements and documentation. Distill concise, complete, and actionable communications to resolve complex and technical decisions.
Ability to adapt to changes in business targets and priorities, as part of a fast-growing company. Be a life-long learner who is results and action-oriented.
Why Work With Us?
In addition to competitive salaries and generous benefits, ExploreLearning offers an exciting and dynamic working environment in which creativity, teamwork and professional growth are valued and rewarded. Our award-winning online programs bring engaging and effective instructional strategies to K-12 classrooms around the world. Over the course of the last 20+ years, we’ve received numerous awards from some of the worlds most respected education organizations, and were recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Virginia.
Our office is based in historic downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, located approximately 100 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., and consistently rated one of America’s best places to live. The area offers a wide variety of business, cultural, historical, educational and sport-related attractions.
To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit us online.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.
