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Salary: GBP 88,000 - 99,050 / annual
Mystery Science (operating under Discovery Education) seeks a Director of Product Management to lead the supplemental Math & Literacy product portfolio, including DreamBox Math, DreamBox Reading Park, Reading Plus, and Doodle. This is a senior product leadership role responsible for defining and driving long-term strategy for products that deliver measurable learning outcomes while supporting sustainable growth.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Product Leadership: Define and drive multi-year product vision, strategy, and investment priorities for the Math & Literacy portfolio. Align the portfolio with business objectives, customer needs, market opportunities, and learning efficacy goals. Evaluate emerging technologies, AI capabilities, competitive trends, and market insights to inform strategic decisions.
Portfolio Management: Own the roadmap and product lifecycle across all four products. Balance maintenance, modernization, enhancement, and new feature investment. Prioritize investments based on customer value, product performance, organizational capacity, and expected business outcomes.
Business Planning: Develop business cases and portfolio plans that balance product investment and expected return. Partner with cross-functional leaders to align product plans with sustainable growth, retention, and business performance goals.
Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of product managers and curriculum designers. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, curricular rigor, innovation, and product excellence. Build organizational capability through talent development, effective resource allocation, and succession planning.
Executive and Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate product strategy, portfolio performance, investment recommendations, and roadmap priorities to stakeholders and senior leadership, including the SVP of Product. Build consensus and align organizational leaders around portfolio priorities and trade-offs.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Engineering, Design, Curriculum, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to align priorities and support seamless product delivery. Guide cross-functional decisions related to scope, staffing, risk, technical considerations, and user experience.
Growth and Customer Outcomes: Identify opportunities to increase product usage, adoption, renewal, and customer satisfaction. Apply customer, market, and competitive insights to improve learning outcomes and inform investment decisions. Champion the needs of educators, students, and administrators throughout the product development lifecycle.
Performance and Execution: Establish and own portfolio-level OKRs, KPIs, product performance measures, and efficacy goals. Use data, experimentation, and customer insights to guide product decisions. Lead cross-functional execution by managing priorities, dependencies, risks, staffing projections, and trade-offs.
Core Competencies for Success: Strategic mindset; business insight; drives results; develops talent; collaborates effectively across functions and levels.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive product management experience, including responsibility for complex products, product lines, or multi-product portfolios
- 5+ years of experience leading and developing product managers, curriculum professionals, or multidisciplinary product teams
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing portfolio strategies that support customer adoption, retention, growth, and business performance
- Demonstrated experience leading roadmap prioritization, business planning, product investment recommendations, and resource allocation across multiple products
- Experience presenting product strategy, portfolio performance, and business recommendations to senior and executive leadership
- Experience partnering with engineering teams on technically complex products and applying AI or emerging technologies to improve product development efficiency or customer value
- Bachelor's degree in business, technology, education, product management, or a related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred)
- Familiarity with mathematics or literacy curriculum, instructional design, or educational technology strongly preferred
- Legal right to work in the United Kingdom
