Position: Senior Product Engineer
Schedule: This full-time position will work from the Augustine Institute campus in Florissant, Missouri.
Reporting to: Senior Manager of Platform Development
Role Summary- Partner with Product Managers to translate early-stage product ideas into clearly defined, technically feasible, and actionable concepts.
- Reduce risk ahead of significant engineering investment by exploring, prototyping, validating, and refining product concepts.
- Serve as a bridge between Product, Engineering, and end users, ensuring that features move into development well-defined, appropriately scoped, and supported by evidence.
- Help engineering teams focus their efforts on the product ideas most likely to deliver meaningful value to users.
- Support Product in gathering, analyzing, and communicating customer feedback, experiment results, and validation data.
Key Responsibilities- Own product concepts and features through the definition and pre-development stages.
- Maintain a current understanding of each platform's features and user experience to inform product decisions.
- Work with Product Managers to clarify ambiguous or incomplete ideas and translate product intent into requirements that engineering teams can act on.
- Develop user stories, functional requirements, prototypes, technical explorations, and other artifacts needed to define a product concept.
- Rapidly prototype potential solutions to test product direction, usability, feasibility, and key assumptions before committing to full development.
- Partner with Product Managers to lead the validation process for assigned concepts, including prototyping, limited releases, instrumentation, analysis, feedback, and iteration.
- Partner with Product Managers to gather and interpret qualitative and quantitative user feedback, including product analytics, user comments, suggestions, and interviews.
- Help narrow a broad pipeline of product ideas into a smaller set of well-defined, validated opportunities suitable for engineering investment.
- Identify technical, product, architectural, and user-experience tradeoffs affecting multiple products, including Formed, Amen, LMS platforms, and the Educator Platform.
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure proposed solutions are realistic, well understood, appropriately scoped, and aligned with the broader technology environment.
- Hand off concepts to development teams with sufficient definition and validation to support confident implementation.
- Monitor product analytics, user feedback, and adoption after release to identify opportunities for further iteration.
- Support the creation of changelogs, customer-facing documentation, and support and operational training materials.
- Help strengthen the connection between rapid product prototyping and production development so that exploratory work increasingly accelerates, rather than simply precedes, engineering implementation.
- Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, customers, and users to understand their needs, constraints, and opportunities.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, translating between product needs, user needs, and technical considerations.
- Proactively identify gaps and opportunities within the product development process and take ownership in addressing them.
- Contribute to additional product and technology initiatives as organizational needs evolve.
- Commitment to demonstrate consistently the Augustine Institute's core values including:
- Humility - We serve the Augustine Institute Mission with humility and a service mind-set.
- Collaboration - We work together as a united Body of Christ.
- Innovation - We encourage being creative and demonstrating a clever mindset.
- Excellence - We strive in everything we do to win souls for Christ.
Physical DemandsWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to perform stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, typing and use of office equipment, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.
Work EnvironmentWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee will typically work in a climate-controlled office setting.
Employee BenefitsCompetitive compensation, paid time off, a generous 403(b) retirement plan with company match, on-site chapel with Daily Mass and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
