Director of Product - Analytics & Reporting

Director of Product - Analytics & Reporting

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Overview
Over the last 10 years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, teachers, and specialists who support English Learners at public schools across the US. Today, over 1,000 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs and drive instructional impact in their district. We are a successful, rapidly growing business with a real mission -- helping English Learners achieve their highest aspirations.

We are currently making a series of investments to improve our ability to capture, aggregate, and report on key usage data from our products. These improvements will allow us to more rapidly improve our products and services, ultimately driving greater impact for the students and educators we serve. 

As the Director of Product Management, you will play a key role in driving the data definition, collection, and reporting cycles at Ellevation. You will be asked to understand high-level questions the business wants answered, and work backward to determine what data is needed to answer those questions, develop a shared understanding across the company about what rules we use to semantically define that data, prioritize work alongside engineers to encode those business rules in our systems and work with consumers of this data to ensure they can actually answer questions they are asking.

At Ellevation, Product Managers are responsible for working cross-functionally across the organization to ensure the work of your team has an impact on our customers. This involves creating opportunities for others to plug into your work and ensuring stakeholders understand what you are doing, why you are doing it, and that you have factored their ideas and/or concerns into that thinking. 

Product Culture
We are organized into small product teams that focus on key problems to solve in the context of their specific domain. We focus on outcomes over output. Our teams are empowered to research, prototype, and solicit user feedback to validate hypotheses. We engage users early and rapidly iterate so that the end result is a high-confidence, high-value product. We aim to foster an environment where we have the runway to experiment and learn from failure while tackling tricky challenges.

Our teams are cross-functional in that they are made up of members of Product (Product Manager, UX Designer) and members of Engineering (Tech Lead, Engineers). Product and Engineering work hand-in-hand together -- we call ourselves DevPro and in fact, rarely meet in isolation.  

Clear vision and strong strategy are core principles within the Product organization. We value product managers who fully own the long-term vision -- knowing where we are going and importantly why it matters for our customers. As strategy is meant to evolve, you will need to constantly identify increments, spot and mitigate risks, and position your team to meet the needs of the business on the way there. 

We also celebrate being accountable to outcomes which means signing up to pursue that vision by knocking down obstacles that get in the way.  This looks like conducting experiments that throw off learnings, adjusting strategy based on those learnings, and of course delivering products to end-users that change behavior and drive real value for the business.

Impact

    • 1 month - Build a clear picture of the key challenges and strategic contexts across our suite of products. Develop understanding of current reporting and product analytics systems and business needs. Build relationships with key collaborators and stakeholders. 
    • 3 months - Begin to shape and drive strategic decisions around reporting and product analytics working alongside Engineering peers. Set ambitious learning objectives and driver discovery and delivery.
    • 6 months - Steward overall conversations around product analytics across the organization. Work alongside R&D Leadership to establish a Data Governance function.
    • 12 months - Expand the overall capacity for Ellevation to make data driven decisions in support of our ambitious growth and impact objectives. 

About You

    • You have 8+ years of Product Management experience.
    • You have 2+ years of experience directly managing Product Managers.
    • You have deep expertise in creating a Product Vision for product analytics and reporting systems.
    • You are highly quantitative and have a strong track record of success driving key business outcomes in the product analytics and data governance space.
    • You are a natural leader and are able to inspire and influence others without authority.
    • You are experimental and curious; you love to test ideas, learn quickly, fail fast, and iterate.
    • You demonstrate an eagerness to learn from others.
About Us:
At Ellevation, we develop world-class software to help school districts and educators support the fastest growing population of K-12 students: English Language Learners (ELLs). Ellevation helps school districts transform their EL programs and ensure all students can achieve their highest aspirations with a best-in-class data and instructional planning platform, resources to build teacher capacity, and student-facing programs to teach academic language.

We are a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company, partnering with over 1,200 school districts and more than 3 million current and former EL students. Over the next five years we are focused on doubling the number of students we serve and driving measurable outcomes for students. We are well-capitalized, have a strong team, and are continuously focused on how to build the best organization so that we can achieve our ambitious social and financial objectives.

Why Ellevation?
In addition to our great benefit plans and competitive salaries, here are some other perks that make us unique:
+ Great location in Boston - a stone’s throw from the Chauncy Street/Downtown Crossing T stop (We are currently working 100% remotely due to COVID-19)
+ Ability to make a significant impact in the education industry
+ Fun Fridays including virtual happy hours with our remote team
+ Free snacks, beverages, fruit, and we even compost!
+ On-site gym, game room and darts to support all levels of athleticism
+ Opportunity to join an open and collaborative work environment!

Learn more about our team in our Culture Deck.

Here at Ellevation, we champion diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. We strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values a range of ideas and opinions. We embrace all types of differences in the development of our organization. We are proud to have been recognized in prior years as “Best Tech Workplace for Diversity” from the Timmy Awards for investing in trainings around inclusive behaviors, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and fostering a culture of sharing educational resources across the company. We are encouraged by our progress, but there’s more work to be done.

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