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About the Role

The Senior Product Manager owns a vertical product portfolio and is accountable for new enrollment growth within it, weighted toward enrollment in recently launched programs. You decide what we build, what we upgrade, and what we retire, and you bring it to market faster than we do today.

Responsibilities

• Recommend which programs in your portfolio launch, upgrade, or sunset each quarter, and carry those recommendations into regularly scheduled decision meetings.
• Design the features of new and upgraded offerings: modality, pacing, credit structure, stackability, credential type, and pricing inputs.
• Build and defend the business case behind every recommendation, including addressable demand, competitive position, employment outlook, enrollment forecast, cost to build, and contribution over the life of the program.
• Own the P&L and the multi-year plan for your portfolio.
• Drive cycle time and throughput.
• Hold the plan for each program in development, name the constraint the moment a launch is at risk, and escalate early rather than absorbing slippage.
• Bring the customer and employer view into the room.
• Provide consultative support to Category Marketers on positioning, naming, and messaging for the programs in your portfolio.
• Support academic leaders in shaping programs of study for new and upgraded offerings.
• Provide guidance to the Business Operations Manager on launch process and project execution.
• Set tactical growth priorities for the vertical jointly with the academic leader and the Category Marketer.
• Contribute to the continued competitiveness, accreditation, and regulatory standing of the existing portfolio alongside academic and compliance partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five (5) to ten (10) years in product management, product strategy, or a closely related discipline, including ownership of a portfolio P&L.
• Track record of taking products from concept to market, with a specific account of what you did to compress the timeline.
• Ability to make and defend a build or no-build call using demand evidence rather than internal preference.
• Proven success operating through influence across academic, marketing, enrollment, and operations partners, none of whom report to you.
• Strong quantitative and financial skills: forecasting, business case construction, data analysis, and budget management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to make a portfolio recommendation to senior leaders in one page.
• Steadiness under competing priorities and tight timelines, with diplomacy and real enthusiasm for the work.

Skills

• Product Management
• Product Strategy
• P&L Ownership
• Forecasting
• Business Case Construction
• Data Analysis
• Budget Management
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• MBA

Salary/Compensations

• $80,336.75 - $140,851.54

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Annual incentive program

About the Company

• More than 50 years ago, Walden University was founded to support adult learners in achieving their academic goals and making a greater impact in their professions and communities.
• Students from across the U.S. and more than 115 countries are pursuing a certificate, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree online at Walden.
• We offer more than 100 online degrees and certificate programs.
• Walden University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org).
• We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

Equal Opportunity

• Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation