Product Manager, Empowered
Stand Together
Full-time
On-site
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Senior Product Manager
Empowered is a community of social entrepreneur teachers, bringing the experiential, individualized, self-discovery teaching methodology to life in their classrooms. Their work leads to transformative learning experiences for their students. At scale, the Empowered community is a cultural movement driving bottom-up change throughout the key institution of education.
Empowered is part of the Stand Together philanthropic community.
Our community is growing and so is the impact of our work to move toward a society where everyone could live a life of meaning and succeed by benefiting others. At Empowered, we advance this work by partnering with educators who are empowering students to realize their potential. There are several ‘cool’ brands in the sector focusing on teachers. However, we believe there is a ton of opportunity for an exciting brand, who deeply believes in educators for the change agents they are and wants to authentically invest in teachers at all grade levels, to catalyze teacher joy at scale. Empowered is that brand and we are looking for a Product Manager to help accelerate our capture of these opportunities.
We’re looking for a strategic, visionary, and customer-obsessed product leader to oversee the design and evolution of high-impact technology products. As a Product Manager, you will serve as an architect of innovation—bridging the gap between customer needs and organizational desire to become the platform of choice for educators. You’ll set clear goals, balance priorities, and steward products across their entire lifecycle, ensuring they deliver meaningful, long-term value for teachers.
This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, excels at cross-functional collaboration, and is as comfortable in the details of product design as in boardroom strategy discussions. You will partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, operations, and analytics teams to ensure that Empowered’s products are visionary, usable, and scalable.
This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
How You Will Contribute
- Lead Product Vision & Strategy
- Define and communicate a bold, long-term vision for customer-facing technology products that helps fuel educators’ success with their students.
- Establish clear, measurable strategies along with product roadmaps that balance innovation, feasibility, and impact.
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to anticipate trends and position products for sustained success.
- Champion Customer-Centric Innovation
- Develop deep insights into user needs through interviews, usability tests, and continuous feedback loops.
- Serve as the voice of the customer in product decisions, ensuring empathy and advocacy drive product direction.
- Create solutions that not only meet functional needs but also deliver joyful, empowering user experiences.
- Execute with Excellence Across the Product Lifecycle
- Oversee all stages of the product lifecycle, from ideation and design through launch and post-launch optimization.
- Relentlessly strive for product-market fit (PMF) by establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track adoption, drive retention, and inform iterative improvements.
- Maintain rigorous documentation, testing, and quality assurance practices to ensure product reliability.
- Demonstrate Strategic & Analytical Leadership
- Use data-driven insights to guide prioritization, trade-offs, and resource allocation.
- Proactively identify risks and navigate ambiguity with flexibility and adaptability.
- Balance short-term wins with long-term product growth and sustainability.
- Model Leadership & Accountability
- Act as the linchpin across engineering, design, marketing, and business teams, ensuring alignment and momentum
- Inspire teams, through storytelling, influential presentations, and a shared sense of purpose, to push boundaries while fostering collaboration, trust, and innovation.
- Take ownership of product success and failure, viewing both as opportunities for continuous learning.
- Address conflicts constructively to ensure alignment and maintain forward momentum.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, IT, or related field; experience considered in lieu of degree
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Proven success in defining product strategy, building roadmaps, and leading products from ideation through scale
- Strong track record of customer-centric innovation, backed by qualitative and quantitative insights
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills
- Analytical mindset with deep experience in data-driven decision-making and KPI management
- Expertise with Agile methodologies and iterative product development
- A passion to work cross-functionally and bring out the best in others
- Enthusiasm to contribute to our vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
Standout Candidates Will Bring
- Experience in K-12 education field
- Success in achieving product-market fit for a technology product focused on a non-revenue-generating user base.
- A passion for using technology to create scalable, impactful solutions for mission-driven organizations
- Ability to combine strategic insight with a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to execution
- An understanding of the power of AI and how the concepts transform project management outcomes
What We Offer
- Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
- A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
- Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
- Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.
Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.