Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. As a Staff Product Manager, you will own a single product line end to end, focusing on its growth, retention, and unit economics while collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own the outcomes for your line: adoption, retention, and revenue. Tie the major bets to the numbers that matter (LTV, retention, acquisition cost, churn) and make the business case for the spend
- Own the unit economics too, not just the features. Where your line carries real cost, such as messaging or translation spend, you own those levers and the margin the same way you own growth
- Set the strategy for your line: what to build, what to stop, and what to defend when people push back
- Make the build-versus-buy and resourcing calls that protect the highest-value work over busy work
- Lead discovery and shaping for the hardest problems in your line, and run a cycle end to end without leaving dead ends for engineering
- Pitch high-stakes bets to leadership with conviction, and own the result
- Cut scope to protect the appetite. Catch the rabbit holes early, and raise risks before they grow rather than absorbing them quietly
- Work across engineering, design, sales, and customer success without needing a manager to broker it
- Set the goals and the guardrails, then let engineers and designers carry ideas to delivery rather than writing every spec yourself. Use our shared discovery and signal tools so the team spends its time on judgment, not manual synthesis
- Partner with the platform team on the shared rails your line depends on, such as the design system, data, and delivery infrastructure
- Build reusable AI workflows that make you and your team faster and the work better
- Use the shared signal data and evaluation tools owned by our Data and AI team, and help shape what they should become
- Stay responsible for quality. AI can do more of the work now, but you are accountable for what ships
Skills
- At least 8 years in product management in SaaS, including at least 3 years owning the outcomes of a product line or area over time, not just shipping features
- A track record of moving real business numbers such as revenue, retention, and adoption, and comfort reasoning about cost and margin
- Experience shaping and pitching high-stakes bets to senior leadership and owning the result
- You drive alignment across engineering, design, sales, and customer success on your own, and you move fast by enabling others rather than gating everything yourself
- Strong technical fluency. You can read API docs, understand system constraints, and weigh technical tradeoffs
- EdTech or another mission-driven product background
- K-12 experience is a plus
- Familiarity with Shape Up or a similar appetite-driven way of working
Benefits
- Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
- An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
- Paid Parental Leave
- Stock options
- Health + wellness reimbursements
- PTO that increases each year
- 15 paid holidays, including your birthday!
- As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive.
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