Product Manager, Careers

Job Summary

The Product Manager, Careers sets product direction for Infobase’s careers and career and technical education (CTE) offerings, with the goal of significantly expanding sales in middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets. The role focuses on four areas: a careers strategy built around Advance CTE pathways and career development (guidance and assessment) at the middle school, high school, and university levels; an expanded CTE emphasis within that strategy; an assessment partnership that enables quick expansion; and modern product workflows that help the product grow across these markets. This senior individual-contributor role combines product management with content management for the careers and CTE portfolio, working in close partnership with the Vault leadership team, content teams, platform leadership, and Infobase’s enterprise-level engineering team, and building alignment through collaboration and influence rather than formal authority. The Product Manager, Careers owns the vision and roadmap for this area on an ongoing basis and may be assigned other product initiatives based on organizational needs and the publishing and release cycle of the careers product line.

Essential Functions

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

• Define product vision and strategy for careers and CTE offerings across middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets, grounded in customer-centric design, market analysis, competitive dynamics, revenue analysis, and customer research.
• Own and prioritize the roadmap, including technology and content, making the tradeoffs needed to balance customer value, business priorities, and delivery capacity.
• Shape an expanded CTE emphasis within the careers strategy, aligned to Advance CTE pathways and to workforce-relevant outcomes at the high school and community college levels.
• Build the business case for significant product investments and partnerships, including tradeoffs, revenue impact, and expected results, and present recommendations to product and executive leadership.

Partnerships & Assessment Integration

• Identify assessment and video partnership opportunities, outline deal points, and serve as the frontline contact for those partners.
• Own a potential assessment partnership, including integration requirements, delivery sequencing for quick expansion, and tracking of partnership outcomes.
• Define how assessment results connect to careers content and learning assets, including careers videos and career guides, so users move from assessment to exploration to planning.
• Shape career development experiences (guidance and assessment) for middle school, high school, and university learners.

Content Management

• Manage the careers and CTE content portfolio, including careers videos and career guides, setting priorities for what is created, updated, acquired, or retired.
• Identify content gaps against Advance CTE pathways, workforce-relevant outcomes at the high school and community college levels, and the needs of a partner assessment.
• Work with editors and external content partners to plan, commission, and review content, holding it to standards for accuracy, quality, and alignment to pathways.
• Manage content creation through external vendors, as advised by Franchise Owners and supported by limited staff time where available.
• Maintain a content plan and update cycle so careers and CTE content stays current as pathways, labor-market information, and customer needs change.
• Ensure content is structured and tagged so assessment results can connect users to the right videos and guides.

Voice of Customer & Market Insight

• Lead voice-of-customer practices, including direct research, usage data analysis, customer feedback loops, and pilots, to keep decisions grounded in evidence.
• Distinguish between buyers and users across school, community college, and library settings (for example, librarians, counselors, CTE educators, and students) when designing products that win sales and increase classroom usage.
• Track competitive and market developments in careers, CTE, and related assessments, and translate them into roadmap implications.

Product Workflows & Go-to-Market

• Design modern, customer-centric product workflows that help the product significantly expand sales in middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets within the constraints of an enterprise-level platform.
• Coordinate go-to-market readiness with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, and track results after launch.
• Define and report on KPIs and business outcomes on a regular cadence to product and executive stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Vault, Platform & Engineering

• Serve as the liaison with platform, engineering, Vault, and customer-facing teams, aligning future product direction with content strategy and platform capabilities and consulting with content teams at key points in development.
• Partner with platform leadership on the definition and requirements of new products and significant revisions to existing products.
• Work with Infobase’s enterprise-level engineering team to sequence delivery and keep the roadmap realistic against shared engineering capacity.
• Write clear product requirements and maintain a prioritized backlog for engineering, resolving tradeoffs as delivery progresses.
• Influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders without formal authority, including when priorities conflict.
• Share domain expertise and product practice with other Product Managers and with Franchise Owners.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Core Compentancies

• Technical Knowledge: Advanced product management expertise combined with content management and working knowledge of CTE, career pathways, and assessment integration; owns product and content direction for the careers and CTE portfolio and shares product practice with other Product Managers and Franchise Owners.
• Job Complexity: Solves complex, multi-dimensional problems spanning product, content, external partnerships, and a shared enterprise platform; builds product vision and evidence-based strategy rather than executing an existing roadmap.
• Autonomy / Supervision: General direction; sets direction for the careers and CTE product area independently and brings major investment and partnership decisions to product and executive leadership.
• Impact of Error: Errors can affect sales growth across target markets, partner relationships, and the accuracy and credibility of careers content; accountable for roadmap delivery, partnership outcomes, and content quality for the portfolio.
• Collaboration: Extensive internal contact with Vault leadership, content, platform, engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and executive leadership; external contact with assessment and video partners, content vendors, and customers to negotiate, align, and deliver.
• Supervision Exercised: No direct reports; directs the work of external content vendors and partners and may guide limited staff contributions to content projects.

Performance Expectations

• Maintains a documented roadmap for careers and CTE that is endorsed by leadership and customers and delivered against on a regular cadence.
• Drives sustained growth in adoption, usage, and sales across middle school, high school, community college, and public library markets.
• Delivers assessment and video partnerships that are integrated with other learning assets on the agreed timeline.
• Keeps careers and CTE content current, aligned to Advance CTE pathways, and delivered on the agreed schedule.
• Produces investment recommendations that translate into approved, funded initiatives with measurable return.
• Strengthens partnership among content, platform, and engineering teams, reducing late-stage scope conflicts and shortening time from requirement to launch.

 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, education, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–6 years of progressive product management experience, with a record of building product vision and evidence-based strategy and of working with both content and platform teams.
• Experience managing a business partner relationship.
• Ability to work effectively with an enterprise-level engineering team rather than a product-specific one.
• Strong ability to run and synthesize qualitative research alongside quantitative usage data to create customer-centric workflows.
• Comfort building and presenting a business case, including revenue impact and investment tradeoffs, to executive leadership.
• Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication, including presenting strategy, roadmap, and outcomes to executive audiences and working with all levels of the organization.

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

• Experience managing or working closely with content or curriculum development, including editors and external content partners.
• Knowledge of CTE, including career pathways and workforce experience relevant to high school and community college audiences.
• Knowledge of K–12 workflows for the middle school and high school markets, through curriculum, library, or assessment products.
• At least a basic understanding of how to integrate assessment with curriculum and learning assets, such as careers videos and career guides.
• Experience in education technology, library technology, or another market where content and technology combine to create distinctive product experiences.