Product Manager

Company Overview

EPS Learning provides Science of Reading–aligned PreK–12 literacy solutions that help schools deliver effective, evidence-based instruction. Our portfolio includes trusted programs such as SPIRE®, SPIRE Up®, and Wordly Wise 3000®, supporting students across all tiers of instruction through print, digital, and blended learning solutions. We partner with districts nationwide to strengthen literacy outcomes and expand access to ESSA-aligned, evidence-based practices.

Backed by a private equity partner, EPS Learning continues to invest in product innovation and go-to-market capabilities to support long-term growth and impact. If you are motivated by meaningful work and want to help improve literacy outcomes for students across the country, you’ll find a collaborative, mission-driven team at EPS Learning committed to making a difference in classrooms every day.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of one or more EPS Learning product lines. This role is central to translating market needs and instructional goals into clear product vision, actionable roadmaps, and high‑impact literacy solutions for K–12 educators and students.The Product Manager partners closely with editorial and engineering teams to define requirements, set priorities, and guide product execution, while also overseeing pricing, positioning, and overall product strategy. Working cross‑functionally with product development (internal and external), marketing, sales, customer success, and professional learning teams, the Product Manager ensures products are thoughtfully built, effectively launched, continuously refined, and successfully brought to market.Serving as the internal and external evangelist for their product portfolio, the Product Manager champions clear market needs, practical implementation, and measurable effectiveness. This role is accountable for both top‑line growth and bottom‑line performance, ensuring EPS products are educationally sound, commercially successful, and scalable.

Responsibilities

- Manage products through the full product life cycle, working closely with curriculum experts, designers, project managers, engineers, professional learning experts, customer success experts, marketing, and sales experts.

- Own the PK–12 core and supplemental markets, to understand diverse customer needs and challenges, competitor product offerings, market shifts and trends, and available sources of funding.

- Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform product direction and decisions,gatheringinformation about buyer and user needs through interviews and customervisitsas well as analysis ofany and alldata available.

- Communicate product vision and strategy with internal and external, cross-functional stakeholders, including the documentation and prioritization of requirements

- Gather information about buyer and user needs through interviews, surveys, and customer visits as well as product analysis tools, keeping the organization informed of evolving customer needs.

- Contribute to product launch training and ongoing support with sales and marketing to shape and develop deliverables that will drivesuccessof the product in the marketplace.

- Create and maintain product management protocols to ensure efficient project completion within budget and timeline constraints.

Qualifications

- A minimum of 7 to 10 years of product management experience.

- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Marketing, or related business field; master’s degree preferred.

- Prior classroom educator, administrator or education industry related experience.

- Previous experience developing and bringing to market high‑quality K–12 solutions aligned to curriculum standards, instructional goals, and accountability requirements.

- Deep knowledge of the K-12 literacy, assessment, and supplemental curriculum markets, pedagogy, and national standards.

- Excellent communication and prese