Head of Product

KnowledgeHook$120K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management, with 3+ in a manager/lead role
  • Experience shipping software from concept to launch alongside an engineering team as an Individual Contributor
  • Strong analytical skills, comfortable with A/B tests and user research
  • Fluent in AI tools for documentation and idea testing
  • Ability to prioritize and articulate trade-offs effectively
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment

Responsibilities

  • Own the product roadmap, linking initiatives to metrics that improve Short Learning Cycles
  • Write PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria directly
  • Collaborate closely with design and engineering throughout the development lifecycle
  • Prioritize features based on impact on student outcomes and user adoption
  • Gather insights from educators to inform product requirements
  • Track and analyze metrics to evaluate feature success
  • Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure successful product launches
  • Work with marketing on go-to-market strategies

Benefits

  • Impact the educational landscape through innovative ed-tech solutions
  • Be a part of a supportive and passionate team
  • Receive comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% premium coverage
  • Enjoy generous paid time off, including vacation and personal days
  • Benefit from a hybrid work environment, combining remote flexibility with in-office collaboration opportunities
Full Job Description
The Role

We're hiring a Head of Product at Knowledgehook. You'll help drive the strategy and roadmap for how educators discover gaps, run Short Learning Cycles, and act on growth data inside the product.

This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role; not a pure management or strategy seat. You will personally write PRDs, build mockups, sit in the details with design and engineering, and ship features end to end. You'll set direction and do the work. If you're looking for a role where you hand off the doing to a team and operate only at the strategy layer, this isn't it.

You may mentor others and influence cross-functionally, but your impact is measured on what you ship and the outcomes it drives and not on headcount.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. This is a full-time hybrid role that requires employees to work from our office three days per week.

What You'll Do
  • Own your roadmap. Set and defend the product strategy for your features, tying every initiative back to our north-star metric: Short Learning Cycles run by teachers, and the average student growth those cycles produce.
  • Do the IC work yourself. Write your own PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Build your own mockups and prototypes. Spec edge cases. Triage tickets in Jira and keep specs current in Confluence. You are the one in the document, not just reviewing it.
  • Work hands-on with design and engineering to take ideas from concept to launch and beyond. Pairing with designers in Figma, breaking complex problems into shippable steps, and staying in the build through release while supporting your features post-launch.
  • Powerfully prioritize features by impact on student outcomes and adoption, balancing teacher and school-leader needs against engineering reality, and clearly articulating the rationale behind each call.
  • Become the expert on educators. Use classroom data, teacher interviews, feedback from Customer Success and dashboard usage to synthesize requirements that genuinely make a teacher's day easier and a principal's school-improvement work more visible.
  • Define, track, and analyze the metrics that tell you whether a feature worked, including adoption, Short Learning Cycles start and completion rates, and pre/post growth as well as feed that back into the roadmap.
  • Partner cross-functionally with content/curriculum, go-to-market, customer success, and engineering so school-side releases land with the training, collateral, and support they need.
  • Own Go-to-Market Collaborating with the VP of Product, be the go-to person for marketing related activities for your given features
  • Keep compliance in view. Build with student-data privacy expectations (FERPA, COPPA, GDPR-equivalents) as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought.

What We're Looking For
  • 8+ years in product management, with 3+ in a manager/lead role, including shipping software from concept to launch alongside an engineering team - with a meaningful stretch of that time as a hands-on Individual Contributor, not solely managing Product Managers
  • Strong analytical instincts: comfortable using analytics, A/B tests, and user research to drive decisions
  • Deeply fluent with AI tools: you reach for them by default to accelerate your own work, whether that's drafting PRDs, synthesizing research, prototyping, or pressure-testing ideas, and you have a sharp sense of where they help and where they don't
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing opportunities and explain the "why" behind the trade-offs
  • Fluent working hand-in-hand with design (bonus: comfortable in Figma) and engineering (comfortable in Jira/Confluence)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Comfort in a fast-moving, rapidly changing environment - a self-starter who defaults to action
  • Expert multitasker
  • Can operate, thrive and lead in a chaotic environment where priorities can change
  • Desire to improve product processes
  • LOVES to create documentation
  • Thinks about the whole system when designing a feature or change
  • Bonus:
    • Experience in EdTech, K-12, or a math/learning product
    • Familiarity with formative assessment or short-cycle / data-driven instruction
    • Understanding of the teacher and school-leader (principal/admin) personas

What's in it for you
  • Be part of a transformational organization! The Ed-Tech industry has a direct impact on the education system, empowering students and families with innovative tools and resources to enhance learning outcomes. As an Ed-Tech company, we are revolutionizing the way children learn math and tackling math phobia
  • Join a winning team! This is a unique opportunity to be part of a thriving team and develop your skills and knowledge. While the journey may be challenging, it will also be immensely rewarding.
  • Join a welcoming and supportive community! Our team is a tight-knit group of individuals who share a common passion for our work, and we collaborate closely to achieve our objectives, creating an intimate and caring community.
  • Competitive Total rewards! Our Total Rewards package aligns with industry standards:
    • We offer a benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of premiums paid by the company.
    • We have a generous paid time off program that includes both vacation and personal days.
    • We embrace a hybrid work environment, empowering you to thrive with the flexibility of remote and in-office collaboration.

How to apply

If this opportunity sounds like a fit, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your updated resume for consideration.

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