Sr Product Manager, Student/Staff Experience

**ABOUT US** HirexHire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client’s everyday operations to understand their people's goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement processes and technologies to execute a sustainable, scalable talent plan. We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth who need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses. **OUR CLIENT** Location: Florida headquarters Industry: EdTech Company Size: 50+ What They Do: Our client is an EdTech SaaS company providing cybersecurity awareness training to K–12 school districts nationwide. Their platform helps administrators protect staff and students through proactive education, phishing simulations, and ongoing security programs. **THE ROLE** Our client is seeking a **Sr. Product Manager, Student and Staff Experience** to own the end-to-end product journey for students, faculty, and administrators. As the first product hire, you will collaborate closely with the VP of Product to shape the roadmap and deeply understand user behavior in school districts. This role is built for the AI era; instead of just writing requirements, you will actively use AI code-generation tools to build functional, interactive prototypes that are 70–80% complete before handing them off to design and engineering. **WHAT YOU WILL DO** - Own the product direction for the student and staff experience, from validated problem statement through design, execution, and launch. - Build interactive prototypes, fast. Use Claude and other AI prototyping tools to turn problems into working, clickable artifacts and iterate on them directly, rather than handing static specs to others to mock up. - Hand off prototypes 70 to 80% complete, with flows, states, and edge cases worked through, plus the research, call recordings, and reasoning behind them, so design refines rather than reverse-engineers. - Run customer discovery. Talk to educators, district staff, administrators, and where appropriate students, on a regular cadence, and understand what makes the product get adopted instead of ignored — by kids and adults alike. - Drive prioritization with discipline. Say no to good ideas to protect great ones, and defend those calls with evidence when sales, customers, or leadership push - Write the problem statements and PRDs that carry work through our gated product process (intake, development readiness, prioritization, go/no-go, launch) - Partner with engineering to stress-test feasibility, scope, and trade-offs before a single line of production code is written, including digging into data-model and reporting questions when the details matter. - Partner with Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing on release and launch readiness so nothing reaches customers as a surprise. - Define and track the metrics that tell you whether what you shipped actually changed behavior and engagement across students and staff, not just whether it shipped. **WHAT YOU WILL NEED** - 5+ years in product management, with senior or lead-level ownership of a product or major area and a track record of shipping digital products that users actually adopt. - Deep K-12 EdTech product experience. You have built digital products used by students in the classroom and by faculty and staff at real scale, products that have touched the lives of millions of students and/or hundreds of thousands of educators. - Demonstrated fluency with AI prototyping. You can show us working prototypes you have personally built with Claude or comparable AI tools. A portfolio of what you have made matters more than résumé bullet points. - A track record of doing your own customer discovery, not outsourcing it. - A deep grasp of the K-12 environment: the rhythm of t…