Senior Product Manager

What We Do At Meridian Softworks, we’re helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. What It’s Like to Work at Meridian Softworks We are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians. What We Do At Meridian Softworks, we're helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world's greatest challenges. Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. What It's Like to Work at Meridian Softworks We are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why "I love the people here" is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians. The Role Meridian Softworks's New Products team operates like a startup inside the company: a small senior team with its own mandate, its own operating space, and a direct line to leadership. In the last four months the team has shipped two new products into real schools, and there is more on the way. We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to help drive this portfolio forward. You will have a hand in everything the team does: growing the products we have already launched, shaping the ones in flight, and helping validate what comes next. The center of gravity of the role is making products win in the market: growing adoption, running pilots with real schools and districts, turning messy customer signal into a sharp roadmap, and making confident product decisions every day without waiting for permission. This is a high-autonomy seat. There is no playbook and no process machine; you get a mandate, real data, real customers, and a senior engineering team, and we trust you to make good calls. What You'll Do Own day-to-day product direction across one or more products, including our recently launched products: roadmap, prioritization, release decisions, and outcomes. Run beta and pilot programs end to end: recruit and manage pilot schools and districts, structure the feedback loops, decide what graduates and what gets cut. Turn usage data, support themes, sales asks, and customer conversations into a ranked, defensible plan. Define the metrics that tell us whether the products are working and instrument what is missing. Ship on a weekly cadence with a senior engineering team and a design partner: crisp written specs and decision memos, fast tradeoff calls, no ceremony for ceremony's sake. Partner with go-to-market at the right gates (pricing tests, messaging validation, launch readiness) once concepts are validated, while protecting early-stage work from premature process. Contribute to discovery and validation of new product opportunities, with room to take on bigger ownership as the portfolio grows. Who You Are 5+ years as the decision-making product manager on live software products, including at least one product you ran after launch through growth. We will ask, specifically, what you personally decided and what happened. Someone with evidence of independent judgment: you have operated where the process did not do the thinking for you (an early-stage company, an under-resourced team, a carve-out unit), and given data and a roadmap you make good calls without an approval chain. A strong writer. Our process asks you to write because the job does: you can compress a messy situation into two clear pages. Fluent with data. You pull your own numbers, you know what they do and do not say, and you change your mind when they tell you to. Experiment-minded. When the answer is not known, you form a hypothesis, run t