Head of Product

WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over a year and a half old, and more than 5 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

Role Description: The Head of Product at MagicSchool will define, implement, execute, and track on product roadmap initiatives aligned to company goals and KPIs.  This role is also responsible for ensuring that what gets built is both valuable and viable.  The head of product is responsible for building out our processes for planning, investigating, and product discovery (user testing, analysis, data).

Responsibilities:

1. Product Vision & Multi-Line Strategy

• Shape and articulate a forward-looking product vision across multiple product lines, ensuring each aligns with company objectives, market trends, and customer needs.

• Balance short-term tactical goals with long-term strategic priorities to accelerate growth and market differentiation.

2. Multi-Line Roadmap Leadership & Execution

• Drive a cohesive roadmap that prioritizes high-impact initiatives across multiple product lines, coordinating with engineering, design, and marketing to ensure flawless execution.

• Adapt and evolve the roadmap in response to emerging market opportunities and feedback, fostering alignment across all teams.

3. Cross-Vertical Expansion & Market Penetration

• Lead efforts to enter new verticals, identifying growth opportunities, validating hypotheses, and tailoring product offerings to meet distinct market demands.

• Work closely with go-to-market teams to craft and implement strategies that maximize product adoption and revenue potential in new verticals.

4. Build & Scale the Product Organization

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of product managers, ensuring scalable processes and best practices fit for a fast-growing, multi-product environment.

• Cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning within the product team, promoting alignment with company goals.

5. Stakeholder Alignment & Communication

• Serve as a strategic liaison with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, delivering transparency, data-driven insights, and ensuring alignment on product decisions.

• Regularly communicate product strategy, progress, and metrics to foster buy-in and visibility across the organization.

Qualifications/Competencies/Skills

• Strategic Vision & Market Insight: Ability to set and communicate a clear, compelling vision that scales across product lines and aligns with both company objectives and market needs.

• Analytical Rigor & Data Mastery: Expert in leveraging data for decision-making, with a commitment to KPI-driven prioritization and a deep understanding of customer insights.

• Inspirational Leadership & Talent Development: Skilled at building, leading, and retaining high-performance product teams, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and customer-centric culture.

• Advanced Communication & Influence: Adept at storytelling and distilling complex information for varied audiences, creating alignment and buy-in across leadership and operational teams.

• Operational Agility & Decisive Execution: Proven track record of fast, high-impact decision-making, especially in scaling products across diverse customer segments and growth phases.

Experience

• 8+ years in senior product leadership, managing full lifecycle of products in complex, high-growth environments with multiple product lines.

• 4+ years managing and scaling multi-line product teams, with a proven ability to foster a customer-driven culture that balances innovation with measurable outcomes.

• Startup & Scaling Experience: Background in Series A/B startups, driving accelerated growth and scaling across verticals.

• Vertical Expansion & Go-to-Market: Demonstrated experience identifying, validating, and driving multi-vertical product expansions with a successful track record in market penetration.

• EdTech Knowledge (Preferred): Understanding of EdTech market dynamics, trends, and regulatory considerations.

Notice: Priority Deadline and Review Start Date

Please note that applications for this position will be accepted until 11/11/24 - applications received after this date will be reviewed on an intermittent basis. While we encourage early submissions, all applications received by the priority deadline will receive equal consideration. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to reviewing your application.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.

• Join a mission-driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.

• Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team - no matter where they live.

• Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance. We work hard for our teachers and users, and encourage our employees to rest and take the time they need.

• Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.

• Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.

• Plus a 401k match & monthly wellness stipend

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic:  Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.

• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

• Community:  Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.

• Innovation:  The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.

• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.

• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.

• Excellence:  Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.