Product Manager, Fractional Independent Contractor at The AI Education Project | United States | Rezi

Product Manager, Fractional Independent Contractor at The AI Education Project

Product Manager, Fractional Independent Contractor

The AI Education Project · United States

2 months ago

Product Manager, Fractional Independent Contractor

The AI Education Project · United States

2 months ago
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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.