Instructure
Salt Lake City, UT
1,001-5,000 employees
Instructure is helping people grow from the first day of school to the last day of work.
Director of Product, Data Platform
Director of Product, Data Platform
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At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their educations and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:
We are looking for a Director of Product Management to join our Platform Product team. In this position, you’ll be leading multiple teams and helping to drive Product strategy and delivery across our data platform, helping to build more seamless, flexible, and scalable integrations between Instructure products as well as Institution and Partner systems. You’ll have responsibility for both internal tooling as well as external product skus, as well as maturing our Platform Product Management team.
What you will be doing:
- Working closely with Engineering and Product leadership to help define the data platform strategy and direction, considering business objectives, technical needs, and overall market conditions.
- Empowering a handful of individual-contributor product managers. This includes helping others grow as product managers—helping them develop and refine good judgment and decision making, helping them strengthen their skills for motivating teams, helping them understand business conditions and customer needs, helping them focus on the right things in a dynamic context.
- Build trusting relationships with executives, faculty, students and staff at institutions, schools, and learning organizations we serve. They collaborate with leaders and colleagues at all levels, in all functions around Instructure to ensure that customer confidence is well-placed in Instructure.
- Tend to operational and logistics activities as needed. These include hiring and onboarding product managers, coordinating formal learning and development opportunities, taking care of expense reports, orchestrating appropriate support for teams when product managers take time off, and similar manager-leader responsibilities.
Here's what you will need to know/have:
- At least 10 years experience in Product Management with at least 3 years of managing Product Managers
- Experience managing Product Managers, and demonstrated ability to grow successful, empowered product teams
- Have demonstrated ability to bring new products or major initiatives to market
- Experience with product integrations, data platforms, Edu data models/schemas
- Demonstrated ability to grow the careers of team members, including coaching/mentorship around best practices in Product Management, software development, Product lifecycle & GTM, and leadership
Get in on all the awesome of Instructure
- Competitive salary, equity and 401k.
- Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance.
- HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and flexible work schedules.
- Gym club reimbursements and rewards-based fitness tracking.
We’ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.
At Instructure we participate in E-Verify and yes, in case you didn't catch it from the above, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired.
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