About the position
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider Craft Education as the next step in your career. Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all. At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs. Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs. Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits. Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs. We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them. If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you. At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development.
Responsibilities
- Works closely with the Head of Product to develop product roadmaps and strategies, contributing to both short- and long-term goals.
- Takes ownership of specific product initiatives, driving them forward independently while ensuring alignment on broader strategic directions.
- Leads the product lifecycle for assigned features and initiatives, from ideation to market delivery.
- Conducts in-depth customer research, synthesizes insights, and develops actionable product improvements.
- Works closely with engineering, data, and technical teams to ensure smooth execution of product features.
- May manage both internal and external stakeholders, filtering client feedback and negotiating product direction.
- Leads sprints and collaborates in an agile environment, using product management tools in a lean but effective way.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Educational Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience may be considered).
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record of leading products from concept to market, managing cross-functional teams, and driving product strategy.
- Experience leading product sprints in an agile environment, using tools like JIRA, Asana, or similar.
- Strong skills in conducting user research and turning insights into actionable product decisions.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience using data to drive product decisions is a plus.
- Familiarity with tooling that supports product analytics is helpful.
Benefits
- Eligible for bonuses.
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare.
- Health savings account and flexible spending account.
- Basic and voluntary life insurance.
- Disability coverage.
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages.
- Legal and identity theft coverage.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Wellbeing program.
- Discounted WGU tuition.
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual.
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
