Careers > Lead Product Manager (Head of Department)

Hiring: Lead Product Manager (Head of Department)

What We Do

Our mission at PrepScholar is to improve education at scale through technology. We have the leading online SAT/ACT prep programs and want to continue growing fast in both technology and tutor enabled education products. We differentiate ourselves through customized study plans catering to each student's strengths and weaknesses. As a result, our students get dramatically better results and show amazing satisfaction.

We're a rapidly growing national brand, reaching millions of students monthly with our free content and tools. We believe we have a major advantage over other companies in our space because of our technology-centered and analytical approach to education.

Your Responsibilities

• Understand a PrepScholar product fully, with a focus on how marketing, product, user experience, and sales impact the department’s profit and loss
• Build and iteratively improve new marketing channels to reach new customers
• Develop effective marketing materials that increase conversions and retention
• Expand and propose projects with high ROI, and wind down projects with low ROI
• Optimize current marketing and new marketing by learning Adwords, content marketing, SEO, and other channels
• Optimize the current product by interfacing with engineers, tutors, and test content creators
• Identify promising new features by interviewing customers, and develop and test high-value improvements to our products

Our ideal candidate has:

• Experience being responsible for P&L (e.g. running a department, running a startup or side-project with positive cashflow)
• Understanding of a broad array of marketing channels, including researching whether a channel is appropriate for a product, starting up new channels, and using tracking/metrics to prove positive ROI of a marketing channel
• Experience with SEO, content marketing, and Adwords
• Distinctive problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills with the ability to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends
• Familiarity with the test prep industry and products
• An entrepreneurial spirit with a strong desire to get things done and focus on the big picture

Why Join Us?

• You'll gain incredible experience from taking ownership over the optimization and growth of an existing product.
• You'll have a direct financial stake in the success of your product.
• We offer competitive salary with perks like a new work machine, free catered daily lunch, drinks/snacks, and tools you need to be productive.
• We offer relocation assistance.
• You'll be building something meaningful. Education is a linchpin of our country's economy and empowers people to improve their own lives. For many reasons, education suffers throughout the country -- class sizes too large, methods outdated, teachers underpaid. Here's your chance to build a scalable solution that actually has impact.

How to Apply

Careers > Lead Product Manager (Head of Department)