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Salary: USD 100,000 - 125,000 / annual
Minerva Project is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own product strategy and execution for Minerva Forum, an educational technology platform built on evidence-based learning science. The company operates Minerva University (named the world's most innovative university three times) and is expanding its impact by partnering with higher education institutions globally.
In this hands-on individual contributor role, you will own the full product lifecycle from problem definition through launch and post-launch iteration. You'll work in a small, distributed team with substantial autonomy to move work forward independently.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining what to work on by synthesizing user research, partner feedback, support patterns, and business priorities; making a clear case for problems worth solving now versus later
- Owning scope, sequencing, goals, acceptance criteria, and dependencies; working with engineering on feasibility and capacity
- Connecting product, design, and engineering by providing designers with context and constraints, evaluating options collaboratively, and resolving product questions during implementation
- Making success measurable by defining adoption, task completion, failure rates, or support load metrics; ensuring tracking is in place before release
- Managing stakeholder needs across partners, academic teams, support, and leadership; surfacing conflicting priorities early and communicating changes proactively
- Working directly with partners to understand product needs and coordinating with support and account management on issues and expectations
- Carrying work through release by testing workflows, prioritizing defects, and deciding release readiness
- Following up post-launch to identify gaps between intention and actual use, turning insights into concrete improvements
You'll work closely with product and technology leadership, design, engineering, and partner-facing colleagues. The role requires maintaining regular working-hour overlap with the team across time zones.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrated experience independently owning software product work from problem definition through launch and follow-up, with specific examples of decisions made and outcomes
- Sound judgment about prioritization and scope; ability to explain what you chose not to build, the evidence behind the choice, and when you changed your mind
- Experience working closely with designers and engineers on products with complex workflows, multiple user roles, or competing stakeholder needs
- Comfort reasoning with data; ability to question what metrics reveal and make decisions with incomplete evidence
- Strong writing and clear communication with both technical and nontechnical audiences; ability to make complicated product decisions understandable without hiding tradeoffs
- Ability to organize your own work, surface risks early, and close open questions in a distributed team
- Interest in education and patience to understand how learners, educators, and administrators use software
Plus (not required):
- Experience in education or edtech, including teaching
- Work with institutional customers, learning-platform integrations, or product analytics
