Role Description - Lead the product development lifecycle from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product requirements and prioritize features based on user feedback and market trends. - Analyze user data and performance metrics to drive product improvements and enhance user experience. - Develop and maintain a product roadmap that reflects business objectives and customer needs. - Facilitate communication between engineering, design, and business teams to ensure timely delivery of product milestones. - Conduct market research to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive differentiation. - Present product updates and insights to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with company vision. Qualifications - 2–8 years of experience in product management, preferably in software development or AI-driven environments. - Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, with a strong understanding of product development processes. - Experience working in agile methodologies and familiarity with tools for project management. - Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and translate findings into actionable product strategies. Requirements - Experience in the defense, manufacturing, or environmental sectors. - Knowledge of AI technologies and their application in operational settings. - Strong communication skills with a track record of effective stakeholder management. Benefits - The base salary for this role ranges from $100K to $225K, commensurate with experience. - The company offers a dynamic remote work environment and opportunities for professional growth and development.

Role Description This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Product Solutions Lead - REMOTE. In this role, you will serve as a strategic bridge between our clients and product development teams. By translating complex employer benefits needs into actionable insights, you will play a vital role in shaping our product roadmap. Your collaboration with Executive Leadership and Engineering will ensure that our solutions align with market demands and company vision. Your impact will directly influence the success of our healthcare navigation services, ensuring organizations receive optimal support and strategic improvements. - Act as the 'voice of the employer' within the product organization, synthesizing market needs into structured recommendations. - Collaborate with Engineering and Executive leaders to prioritize new features based on market evidence. - Support Employer Go-To-Market teams as a subject matter expert in technical discussions. - Develop business cases for new product pivots, assessing market opportunities and revenue impacts. - Facilitate cross-functional communication between Sales, Actuarial/Legal, and Engineering teams. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience in Health Benefits/Insurance, with expertise in Alternative Funding. - Deep knowledge of employer benefits landscape including ERISA and self-funding. - Ability to transform anecdotal feedback into structured problem statements. - Proven solution-oriented thinker, capable of generating new product ideas. - Strong diplomacy and influence skills to advocate for product decisions. - Proficiency in building ROI models and business cases. - Experience in roles that bridge sales and product operations. - Ability to present convincingly to C-suite stakeholders. - Excellent active listening skills to diagnose market issues. Benefits - Competitive base and incentive compensation. - Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage. - 401(k) plan with up to 4% employer match and full vesting on day one. - Generous paid time off, including holidays and parental leave. - Tuition reimbursement and continuous education opportunities. - Recognition as a Best Place to Work and commitment to diversity. - Modern workplace environment with casual dress code and amenities.

Who We Are & What We Do: Branching Minds’ mission is to empower all educators to effectively, efficiently, and equitably support the holistic needs of their students; and to create a path to academic and personal success for every learner. Already supporting over 1,500,000 students across 400+ districts from over 40 states, our vision is to be the most effective national K12 school district solution for achieving high-fidelity MTSS/RTI; consistently demonstrating our ability to save teachers' planning/documenting time, improve outcomes of our students, and eliminate achievement gaps. We don’t play by the rules of traditional organizations. We get to be innovative in the solutions we develop for our partners and the way we conduct our business for ourselves. Branching Minds is also a Benefit Corporation. We prioritize mission alongside profit. We embrace self-management, transparency, collaboration, initiative, and making a difference in the world. If using innovation to reimagine education in service of equity energizes you -- join our team! The Calling: Branching Minds is looking for mission-driven Product leaders to help us empower educators and improve student outcomes at scale.  To ensure we find the right fit for our current roadmap, we are opening this search to candidates at both the Product Manager and Senior Product Manager levels. Whether you are an execution-focused Product Manager (click to view PM JD) or a strategic Senior Product Manager (click to view Sr. PM JD), you will play a critical role in evolving our MTSS platform. One candidate will be selected for this hire. We will use a defined internal rubric to evaluate your experience, skills, and strategic depth to determine which level best aligns with your expertise. What You Will Achieve: In this role, you will: - Develop a deep understanding of our products, our users, and the K12 educational technology  landscape. - Build strong relationships with your engineering and design partners. - Take ownership of a feature area, lead discovery sessions, and begin translating user needs into crisp product requirements. - Clarify educator needs and partner with design and engineering to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems for teachers and students. - Maintain a visible backlog of workflow, UX, and behavioral debt. If hired at the Senior Product Manager level, you will also be expected to: - Lead the development and enhancement of our products, ensuring solutions are innovative and scalable. - Develop a comprehensive understanding of our strategic goals and the competitive landscape. - Identify key opportunities for platform enhancement and start defining a long-term vision for your product area. - Establish a clear, prioritized roadmap and lead cross-functional teams toward the delivery of high-impact features. - Leverage a deep understanding of the K-12 education landscape to identify emerging industry trends and competitor moves. - Shape company strategies and offer visionary guidance and recommendations to prospects and leadership.

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company, is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025.  We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.  The Technical Product Owner (TPO) is the voice of the product and singular role driving business requirements into agile teams. This role is required to serve as a key conduit between business/product objectives and technical execution. The purpose of the TPO role is to enable effective and efficient execution of technical product development with a clear understanding of the desired end product to meet customer needs, based on well-defined user stories.   WHERE YOU’LL WORK - This position will work from a remote location within the United States. HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME - Understand market needs and transform business requirements into features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria to convey specific functionality from an end-user perspective.  - Engage with Technical Product Managers and business product owner as needed to gather and understand customer needs and requirements, incorporating feedback into the backlog.  - Prioritize and manage backlogs, maintaining a well-prioritized list of features and user stories; use feedback from user engagement to adapt/modify requirements, features, prioritization of features, and product performance.  - Modify/change product features and requirements in response to new information on markets/customers from Product Managers.  - Conduct work prioritization and work sequencing and manage sprints and development of new features / products. Continuously map back to integrated roadmap milestones to ensure alignment on delivery  - Track and manage product development to ensure alignment with established product requirements and market / user feedback  - Support development teams in grooming the backlog during sprint planning by clarifying user stories and setting priorities.  - Oversee performance against success criteria, including customer perspective and UAT/OT.  - Drive alignment through effective and consistent communication  - Deliver consistent and clear release notes  - Support and drive documentation that supports both the delivery of capabilities that meet customer needs and enable training and implementation of capabilities  - Articulate risk and mitigations early and often  - Drive decision making on tradeoffs through clear understanding of business need, technical options and viable options  WHAT YOU'LL NEED - Bachelor's degree in related fields, such as Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science or other areas combined with relevant work experience - Experience working in an agile environment is strongly preferred - Minimum of 3+ years of combined experience in a combination of project management, consulting, Agile development or information technology (project management alone is insufficient) - Experience working in a dynamic environment, with need to adapt to changing priorities, market dynamics, and evolving business needs and guide teams accordingly - An exceptional communicator and collaborator, adept at working across different functions and diverse cultures - Ability to successfully translate business requirements into features and user stories, and manage/ prioritize a feature backlog - Effective communicator and collaborator able to breakdown complex business problems into logical and deliverable work that can easily tie back to business themes and priorities  - Ability to ensure that the vision for 'how a product needs to perform for a customer' is embodied in the design of the product, including for technical specifications - In-depth understanding of Agile methodology (tools, processes, roles) - Ability to understand minimum viable product requirements and prioritize BENEFITS - Flexible and generous paid time off - Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance - 401(k) employer matching program - Parental leave - Wellness resources - Charitable matching program - On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington) - Community outreach groups - Tuition reimbursement Fostering A Sense of Belonging Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers. We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and be authentic. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.  Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S.-based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.