Senior Product Manager - Classroom

Our Values:

Dream big
—Be visionary, strategic, and open to innovation

Build great things
—Work in service of our users, always improving and pushing higher

Take ownership
—Take responsibility with bold decision-making and bias for action

Win like a sports team
—Be trusting and collaborative while empowering others

Learn and grow fast
—Never stop learning and iterate fast

Share our passion
—Share ideas and practice enthusiasm and joy

About the team:

GoodNotes is expanding into education across the world and we need a talented product manager to help us get there. We want to create tools to support more interactive and engaging instructions in and outside of the classroom. As the PM, you will be prioritizing, building and iterating the features roadmap for teachers with the goal to maximize adoption and commercial success. You will be reporting to the Product Director of the Education team.

About the role:

This is the role for you, if you’re excited to work on the things listed below:

• Play a role in executing the strategy and roadmap for GoodNotes classroom, so that everyone has a clear picture about what’s important
• Collaborate with the team on prioritization, implementation and keep track of the different sprints and stories
• Generate insights from different sources and use this data to iterate on feedback so that we can make decisions on priority, scope, requirements, and direction with confidence
• Experience using design thinking process in product innovation & development
• Draft product requirement documents and work closely together with designers and developers on turning them into reality
• Define, execute, and evaluate feature releases, so that the team knows why, how, when, and what we needs to be delivered
• Test new features with students and teachers on a regular basis and provide feedback, so that we can maintain a high bar of quality
• Represent GoodNotes at academic and edtech conferences to explain the USPs of GoodNotes classroom
• Collaborate with other stakeholders such as marketing, QA, CS, so that they can help driving the impact and quality of our product

The skills you will need to be successful in the above:

• Track record of shaping and shipping meaningful products that have been transformational to its users
• Proven experience in software product management and the edtech sector
• Solid technical understanding and proven experience working closely with engineering teams. You don’t have to be an engineer but you should be able to think like one when it matters
• Strong prioritzation and collaboration skills with a focus on hands-down work
• Ability to multitask and thrive in an environment where the context changes often
• Track record in coming up and shipping unique high leverage ideas from in-depth technical and product insights
• Great story teller and communicator both verbally and in written form
• Someone who’s comfortable in working with a high degree of uncertainty and ambiguity
• Experience in building products/features for large userbases (>500k DAU)
• Experience in going from 0 to 1
• Strong analytical skills
• Preferably someone with a good understanding of the education systems

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria listed above, we would still love to hear from you! GoodNotes places a lot of value on learning and development and will support your growth if needed.

The interview process:

• An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join GoodNotes
• A one hour call with your hiring manager, our Director of Product. This is the person who will be managing you day to day, working on your growth and development with you as well as supporting you throughout your career at GoodNotes
• A role-specific interview with someone from our classroom team to get to know more about your experience as a product manager
• A values interview with two or three of your stakeholders, to answer questions relating to Build Great Things and Win Like a Sports Team

What’s in it for you:

• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
• Budget for things like noise cancelling headphones, setting up your home office, personal development, professional training, and health & wellness
• Sponsored visits to our Hong Kong or London office every 2 years
• Company wide annual offsite
• Flexible working hours and location
• Medical insurance for you and your dependents