About the Role
aiEDU is seeking experienced product managers for a 6-month, fractional independent contractor position to support the development of educator- and student-facing products. The role involves leveraging AI to accelerate product development and upskilling internal teams in product management best practices. You will work on projects including building a platform for learning by building with AI and revamping educator-focused products and partner-facing products.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Product Discovery & Scoping Process
- Define the product vision and roadmap in partnership with relevant aiEDU leaders and stakeholders
- Define the problem space, surface constraints, and document current-state pain points
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, user testing and other research to guide product development and feature prioritization
- Translate requirements into a phased roadmap with clear milestones
- Partner with our VP of Operations to identify and address relevant security, safety, privacy and legal considerations
- Develop and maintain a product requirements document (PRD) or equivalent
- Build the product end-to-end across a 2-3 month window, coordinating across aiEDU stakeholders to maintain alignment
- Define evaluation criteria and product analytics aligned with aiEDU's mission and operational needs; evaluate and refine product as needed
- Coach and upskill aiEDU’s own staff throughout the engagement, sharing best practices for product development and creating documentation, templates and frameworks that can be used for future product development
- Support aiEDU’s Internal Learning
- Support our Operations team in advancing the aiEDU’s team internal AI readiness, advising as relevant on AI-assisted product development, AI augmented workflows and the shared infrastructure required to take our work to the next level
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, including experience leading 0→1
- Experience turning ambiguous ideas into clear product requirements, prototypes, delivery plans, and launch decisions
- A hands-on AI power user, integrating AI into every stage of product development and evaluation
- Significant expertise in UI/UX front end development
- Technical fluency, including experience with authentication, data infrastructure and security and privacy considerations
- Ability to define clear technical requirements and partner with contracted engineers to deliver
- Demonstrated ability to run discovery processes and user testing
- Strong user empathy for educators, students, nonprofit teams, and partners
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong documentation habits
- Strong communication and facilitation skills—you can lead a cross-functional process without formal authority
- Genuine interest in mentorship; you're comfortable explaining your process while doing it
- Experience working in K-12 education, educator professional learning, curriculum or student-facing technology, including addressing privacy, safety and equity issues (Preferred)
- Familiarity with curriculum or learning operations workflows (Preferred)
- Experience with tools commonly used in EdTech or content management (e.g., Clever, Google for Education) as well as Airtable (Preferred)
Skills
- AI-assisted product development
- AI augmented workflows
- Product development
- Product management
- UI/UX front end development
- Authentication
- Data infrastructure
- Security and privacy considerations
- User testing
- Stakeholder interviews
- Documentation
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Mentorship
- EdTech tools
- Content management tools
- Airtable
Location
- Fully remote
- United States (for potential travel)
Work Type
- Independent contractor
- Fractional (up to 20 hours per week)
- Short-term (6 months)
- Potential for extension
Experience Level
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Experience leading 0→1
Salary/Compensations
- $150 per hour
Benefits
- Independent contractor role is not benefits-eligible
About the Company
- The AI Education Project (aiEDU.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2019.
- Dedicated to creating equitable learning experiences that empower students with AI literacy.
- Believes that everyone should have access to the knowledge and skills they need to thrive as workers, creators, consumers, and citizens.
- Mission is to make AI literacy a fundamental part of every student’s education.
