Product Manager - Remote

3w3 weeks ago

InStride

Los Angeles, US · Contract · $110,000 – $145,000

About this role

At InStride, people are our purpose. As a public benefit corporation, we partner with leading employers to unlock opportunities for their employees by providing access to top-tier education programs that align with career and business goals.

Working closely with the Sr. Manager, Product, the Product Manager will be accountable for a roadmap of capabilities that help InStride scale innovative workforce education solutions across all users: corporate partners, academic partners, working adult learners, and internal teams.

This role requires seamless collaboration across product lines and partners, combining strategic problem solving, analytical prowess, and cross-functional leadership. The Product Manager must be comfortable operating deeply in technical problem spaces, partnering closely with engineering to drive platform, architecture, and internal tooling initiatives.

If you're passionate about making a difference and driving educational and professional advancement, InStride is the place for you. Our mission goes beyond skill-building; we empower our partners' employees to advance their careers, elevate their expertise, and achieve meaningful personal and professional growth.

Requirements

Ability to translate complex market and business needs into clear product requirements.
Comfort leading highly technical initiatives such as platform enhancements, internal tools, system integrations, and architectural or framework migrations.
Ability to reason about complex systems, dependencies, data flows, and long-term scalability when defining product direction.
Strong analytical skills and inclination to use data (or proxy data) to inform decisions and prioritization.
Strong verbal and written communication across a diverse set of partners and team members; writes clearly, succinctly, and in a compelling manner.
Able to build rapport and trust across stakeholder groups; strong listener who displays emotional intelligence.
Experience partnering cross-functionally to effectively ask questions, listen, uncover perspectives, present options, build consensus, and effectuate new ideas.
Proven experience working closely with engineering teams to shape solutions, sequence work, and balance technical health with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Translate complex market and business needs into clear product requirements.
Lead highly technical initiatives such as platform enhancements, internal tools, system integrations, and architectural or framework migrations.
Reason about complex systems, dependencies, data flows, and long-term scalability when defining product direction.
Use data (or proxy data) to inform decisions and prioritization.
Communicate clearly, succinctly, and compellingly across a diverse set of partners and team members.
Build rapport and trust across stakeholder groups through strong listening and emotional intelligence.
Partner cross-functionally to shape solutions, sequence work, and balance technical health with business outcomes.
Design strong project plans, mobilize colleagues across teams, and ensure work is completed on time and to a high standard.

Benefits

Remote or hybrid work flexibility.
Opportunity to drive educational and professional advancement for working adult learners.
Collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on making a difference.
Work with leading employers and top-tier academic partners.