Principal Product Manager

For over two decades, BrainPOP has been trusted by educators and parents worldwide as a source of engaging and impactful learning experiences for all kids. With a presence in over two-thirds of U.S. districts through school and district subscriptions and an estimated annual reach of 25 million students, BrainPOP is empowering kids to take agency over their learning and excel in and out of the classroom.

The company was acquired in 2022 by KIRKBI, the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO brand, marking a significant milestone as their first acquisition in the digital learning realm. We are thrilled to continue making learning fun and accessible with the strategic guidance and support of KIRKBI.

The Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Systems drives BrainPOP’s internal technology ecosystem — leading the squad responsible for building and optimizing the platforms and tools that power our content creation, management, and distribution workflows. This includes our assessment item generator, content management, and authoring systems, as well as other integrated internal tools that promote efficiency, scalability, and quality across BrainPOP’s teams.

By translating company-wide strategy and operational needs into scalable system capabilities, this role ensures that BrainPOP’s infrastructure supports our evolving product portfolio and empowers cross-functional teams (Learning Design, Engineering, Product, and Creative) to deliver exceptional learning experiences faster and with higher quality. The Principal Product Manager serves as a bridge between technical delivery and business enablement, aligning system investments with measurable business outcomes, such as faster time to create and publish content, higher content accuracy, and improved cross-tool data integration.

This role will be based at our HQ in NYC or remote in the US (Eastern time zone preferred).

• Relentlessly pursue efficiency improvements to our content development processes to enable BrainPOP to create more of our key differentiator - our engaging content.
• Lead your squad to discover, develop, and deliver user value through cross-functional collaboration
• Translate insights from internal users into product requirements and feature concepts
• Manage a clear and actionable product roadmap, prioritizing effectively across short-term wins and long-term goals
• Establish and monitor product KPIs, using data to inform decisions and optimize outcomes
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g., Learning designers, creative team, product managers) to ensure adoption, alignment, and business impact
• Design and execute lightweight experiments and MVPs to test assumptions and validate new approaches to develop the most engaging and impactful education content available.
• Synthesize market, behavioral, and qualitative research into product insights and recommendations
• Stay close to your stakeholders—ensuring your product direction is deeply informed by user needs
• Contribute to and elevate squad rituals, Agile practices, and cross-team collaboration
• Track, analyze, and report on project health, delivery progress, and squad KPIs, translating complex information into clear and concise insights for stakeholders at all levels.
• Navigate and proactively manage dependencies across squads and teams, aligning all contributors toward shared goals.
• Identify risks and proactively remove obstacles to ensure delivery success.

• Visionary Product Strategist: You craft a clear long-term vision for your product area and inspire your team to execute on it
• Compelling Storyteller: You connect product goals with user needs and business outcomes, building alignment and stakeholder buy-in through narrative
• Decisive Prioritizer: You balance competing needs, make trade-offs confidently, and keep the roadmap focused
• Data-Informed Thinker: You design experiments, interrogate data, and sense when insights don’t match observed behavior
• Skilled Collaborator: You build trust and momentum across Engineering, Content, Design, Data, and business teams
• Curious and Analytical: You dig deep into problems and connect the dots across qualitative and quantitative sources
• Bias Toward Action: You move work forward, turning ambiguity into clarity and clarity into momentum
• Deeply Empathetic: You advocate fiercely for your users and hold empathy for your teammates and stakeholders
• Domain Explorer: You love learning about your discipline, the education space, and your users’ world
• Agile Practitioner: Comfortable leading squads through discovery, delivery, iteration, and reflection

• 8+ years of product management experience in the EdTech industry, with a focus on content authoring systems, AI generative frameworks, and publishing industries
• Experience as a project lead, driving the delivery and timeline for architecture projects and deliverables from start to finish
• Experience building AI workflows that drive efficiency and velocity for content creators
• Understanding of state standard frameworks, core curricula, and alignment of content to those standards
• Experience in leveraging the Agile framework of SCRUM for software delivery
• Knowledge of and experience using tools including: Jira, Confluence, Mixpanel, Tableau

The BrainPOP team operates in a hybrid work environment: Each role has remote flexibility and an in-person component at our New York headquarters or other meeting locations. Based on the requirements of a specific role, we may prioritize hiring within a commutable distance of our New York headquarters or in another region relevant to that role.

We are able to employ remotely out of the following approved hiring states:

• Arizona
• California
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee
• Texas

At BrainPOP, our work directly impacts how teachers teach and students learn. They inspire us to build solutions that facilitate joy and meaningful learning outcomes. Our commitment to educators and kids is reflected in our dedication to the BrainPOP team: ensuring their experience is empowering, creative, collaborative, playful, and anchored in learning and growth.

Our team is made up of educators, data scientists, published authors, engineers, artists, bakers, film buffs, cyclists, dual citizens, and so much more. We value diversity and inclusion, collaboration, and learning from multiple perspectives.

We believe that a diverse organization is a more effective organization. BrainPOP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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