The Company
Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.Outschool has been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. Outschool has also been one of BuiltIn’s Best Remote Places to Work for the last two years and has appeared on Y Combinator’s Top Companies list for the last three years.
The Role
We’re looking for an entrepreneurial PM to help drive step-function improvements in retention of Parents Learners on Outschool. At other companies, this role would be equivalent to a senior position. At Outschool, we take an unconventional approach to titling that aligns with our values and is focused on impact above status. You can learn more about our titling philosophy here.
As the second PM on our Core Product team, you’ll collaborate to drive innovative changes on critical surfaces like search and recommendations. You will also spend considerable mindshare on new products that can drive retention with bets like subscriptions, AI and social.
You’ll never be bored. Education is a rewarding but complex domain. It will take all of your skill, experience, and potential to tackle one of the major societal opportunities of our time, using our product, scale, resources, and market position as your levers.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Make significant improvements to Search Recommendation experiences on Outschool to drive parent retention.
- Lead a cross-functional team in quickly building, iterating on, and shipping UX
- Drive org-wide alignment on strategies for improving our core product that would improve parent learner retention
DESIRED EXPERIENCE SKILLS:
- Experience driving improvements on a consumer marketplace, as either a PM or adjacent role (ex: engineer, design, data).
- Experience with optimization of Search Recommendation systems
- Ability to reason about technical topics like ML at a conceptual level
- User oriented thinking is your default – with a strong track record of building great consumer UX.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Previous experience working on AI or consumer social products
- Previous experience in startups
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. For New York and California candidates, as well as candidates based in Seattle, WA the salary range for this role would be $200,000-$275,000 USD.
For Washington candidates outside of Seattle, as well as Colorado candidates, the salary range for this role would be $180,000-$247,500 USD.
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on March 21, 2024.
Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on March 21, 2024.
Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.