Educational Initiatives - Product Manager - ASSET

Educational Initiatives (EI) is an educational products company that leverages the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and a technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children engaged in the K-12 education space learn. Our vision is to create a world in which children everywhere learn with understanding. Our goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society, irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following.

We achieve this goal by building products that focus on diagnostic assessment and personalized learning. We believe in a scientific approach to conceptualizing, designing and building our products. This stems from a dream to discover a Science of Learning that can systematically be made available to teachers.

To draw an analogy, modern medicine is the result of a corresponding Science of Medicine that is only about 80 years old. Almost all treatments are based on a scientific approach that follows a process chain enabling in-depth testing, analysis, diagnosis, prescription, progress-tracking and achievement of the goal for which treatment is being done.

EI's mission is to build this Science of Learning which would provide answers to questions like how many children are not able to (say) correctly subtract in class 5 or solve equations in class 8 and why. It would also categorize the different underlying errors and their frequencies. The Science of Learning would provide teachers a repository of data and techniques that they can use to help children learn better - a big improvement over today's situation where teachers struggle alone to help students learn. EI's work on assessment and learning has already helped create banks of misconceptions, common student errors and the like and share these as usable insights with teachers.

The Science of Learning gets built by the use of technology and also helps technology be used better to improve learning!

We are continually looking for people with a positive attitude, compassion, a compelling desire to make a difference in the way children learn!

Job Title: Product Manager, ASSET

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager for our ASSET product. You will be part of an extremely passionate team that excels at building high-quality assessments and work with various internal and external stakeholders to take the product to a higher orbit.

Responsibilities

- Work with various internal and external stakeholders to gain deep understanding of the product

- Proactively interact with clients to seek feedback on the product

- Do continuous product-level analysis to identify strengths and areas of improvement

- Use feedback from clients and internal teams to come up with features, prototype them and take them to execution stage

- Coordinate with internal IT team and development team to ensure that the features are executed in a satisfactory manner

- Report content matters (quality and sufficiency) along with plan and action to address concerns (if any) to the SBU head

- Document all the issues reported by the clients in a systematic way

- Support development teams in times of need

- Provide support to sales and marketing teams in making of collaterals (prints, videos etc.)

- Maintain up-to-date documentation of the different product features

- Make and update training videos and presentations explaining product features, usage etc. for various internal and external stakeholders

- Follow-up and close issues reported by schools, academic support and sales teams

- Keep track of, analyze and document competitor products and the improvements made on them

- Make teams aware of positives and gaps of the competitor products

- Recommend actionable plans to integrate best features from competitor products

Qualities that we are looking for

- Passionate about Education and the desire to ensure that students are learning with understanding

- Ability to work with large data sets using tools like Excel and R

- Ability to work with cross-functional teams in an effective manner

- Strong problem-solving skills with a - get things done- attitude

- Excellent communication skills

- Desired but not necessary: Ability to quickly and independently learn new analytical tools that may help in the work and knowledge of PHP, MySQL

Education

- Master's degree in any major or a PhD welcome from leading colleges and universities. Roles will be different based on education

- 3-5 years of work experience as a product manager. Experience in the education sector will be useful but not necessary.