Product Manager

About the Role:

We are building an AI-first suite of edtech products spanning teaching, learning, assessment, practice, and partner management. As a Product Manager at NxtWave, you’ll turn strategy into roadmap milestones, shipping high-quality experiences across web and mobile that improve learning outcomes and business results. Scope and expectations will be calibrated to experience (PM-L1 or PM-L2).

Strategy & Discovery

• Translate company/category strategy into a clear product narrative and roadmap milestones.

• Drive customer discovery through interviews, JTBDs, and journey maps.

• Analyze opportunities with data; run competitive scans and build-vs-buy assessments.

AI-first Product Delivery

• Ship features leveraging LLMs, agents, retrieval, and automation; write crisp PRDs/DRDs.

• Partner with Engineering, Design, and Data to deliver in short cycles with strong rollout hygiene.

• Maintain backlog clarity and sequencing across multiple initiatives in a pod.

Metrics, Insights & Growth

• Define success metrics; instrument events; build dashboards; run A/B tests.

• Analyze cohorts, funnels, and retention; translate insights into iteration plans.

• Collaborate with Growth on activation, engagement, and SEO/content strategies.

Stakeholder & GTM Alignment

• Work closely with Business Owners (P&L), CX/Support, and Marketing to ensure impact.

• Create storytelling docs for decisions and drive cross-functional alignment.

• Enable internal teams with release notes, playbooks, and GTM handoff.

Quality, Risk & Ethics

• Own pre-launch checklists, QA gates, and safe rollouts; drive post-launch adoption.

• Ensure learner privacy, data safety, and ethical use of AI in features.

EdTech Nuance

• Incorporate pedagogy, assessment integrity, and accessibility.

• Collaborate with Curriculum/Content teams on pipelines and standards.

• Ship 2+ milestones impacting a core KPI (learning outcome or revenue driver).

• Establish a healthy experiment cadence and decision rhythm (measure → learn → iterate).

• Improve partner satisfaction through clear plans and reliable delivery.

Must-haves

• 3+ years of product management experience with end-to-end ownership (0→1 and/or 1→n).

• Fluency with product analytics (SQL/Sheets + Amplitude/Mixpanel) and experimentation.

• Hands-on exposure to modern AI stacks (OpenAI/Agents, LangChain/LangGraph, vector DBs, RAG) and agentic orchestration platforms (e.g., CrewAI).

• Strong written communication and storytelling; comfortable presenting to execs.

• Ability to work fast under ambiguity; prioritize and make trade-offs effectively.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in EdTech, learning science, gamification, or subscription growth.

• Platform integrations experience (payments, identity, CRM).

• Ownership of revenue/cost levers or multi-team coordination.

• Fixed salary, annual variable component, and multi-year retention component; aligned to level and experience.

• Think in initiatives: create clarity and sequencing across pods.

• Bias to action: ship small, learn fast, raise the bar each sprint.

• Data > Opinions: decisions based on dashboards, experiments, and cohorts.

• Write to think: clear narratives precede meetings.

• Own outcomes: discovery → delivery → rollout → learn.

• One team with Biz Owners: deep partnership with P&L and GTM.

• Ship safely: quality gates, observability, rollback plans.

• Motto: Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

1. Intro Call (15m) – motivation & past wins

2. R1: Deep-dive – product strategy, metrics, rollout

3. R2: Vibe-coding / Agentic system design – live problem-solving using Lovable/Replit & agent orchestration

4. R3: Category Owner / Head of Product – portfolio deep-dive, scope calibration, culture fit

5. R4: HR / People Ops – compensation, values alignment, logistics