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About the Role
This role is for an experienced product manager comfortable operating at the intersection of complex algorithmic systems and customer problems. You will own the strategy for bringing users from their constraints to optimized schedules, defining the optimization process and experience, validating improvements with customers, and using a blend of AI and UI to simplify problem-solving complexity.
Responsibilities
- Engage with customers to understand opportunities to generate better K12 school schedules.
- Dive deep into optimizer technology and scheduling domain to facilitate critical decisions with the engineering team and drive them forward with accountability.
- Partner with Engineering to surface and refine improvements to the optimizer’s core algorithms, model-builders, and orchestration pipeline to meet user needs.
- Collaborate with engineering to design and execute experiments that test optimizer changes, defining consistent performance and quality metrics.
- Craft optimizer product requirements, defining and refining new product features built on new computational capabilities.
- Work with engineering and AI agents to break down requirements into well-defined stories.
- Leverage AI to knit together requirements, story definition, and development workflows.
- Develop and implement a vision for how generative AI can improve algorithmic optimization of schedules.
- Own the end-to-end experience of how school schedulers interact with the optimizer, including communication and resolution of results, tradeoffs, and edge cases.
- Drive goal- and metric-setting processes with Engineering to motivate and measure optimizer squad outcomes.
- Foster a culture of delivering value by setting and adjusting milestones, maintaining high standards, and keeping the team focused on impact.
- Communicate product and technology decisions with clarity, ensuring internal and external stakeholders understand priorities and reasoning.
Requirements
- 4+ years in B2B SaaS product organizations, with at least 3 years as a Product Manager.
- Experience working on products with an algorithmic, decision-support, or operations research core.
- Comfortable partnering closely with those who build solvers.
- Strong in data analysis and metric design.
- Ability to design experiments and interpret their results.
- Strong user-centric story writing.
- Mastery of agile toolsets (e.g., Jira, Notion, Miro, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled SDLC practices to streamline the discover-define-build-test-learn loop.
- Collaborative by default.
- Detail-oriented problem solver.
- Visual communicator (e.g., mockups, sketches, diagrams, journey maps, etc.).
Skills
- Algorithmic systems
- Customer problems
- AI
- UI
- Product judgment
- Data analysis
- Metric design
- Experiment design
- Agile toolsets
- AI-enabled SDLC practices
- Generative AI
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years in B2B SaaS product organizations
- 3+ years as a Product Manager
Benefits
- Health and dental insurance
- Parental leave
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Access to coworking
- Equity in a fast-growing, successful startup
About the Company
- School scheduling is a hard problem that technology was meant to solve, but has historically been done by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time and delivering sub-optimal results for students.
- Timely was started to build the tool educators wish they had, and is changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students.
- Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers, saving schedulers’ time and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential.
- Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.
- District and school partners agree that scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge.
- The company is experiencing exciting growth while doubling down on its mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology.
- Timely serves districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that lead the education technology industry.
- This growth has been driven by strong product-market fit, deep understanding of education, and commitment to customer success.