Product
These few words shape everything we do at Packback from the smallest decision to the largest. Over the last decade since our company’s founding, our team has seen first-hand the power of giving students intentionally designed spaces in their learning experience to be autonomous and curious. We have also seen the incredible benefits of using AI technology to shorten feedback loops and help students revise their work before they submit.
Packback is a pedagogy partner that uses technology as a “means to an end” to shorten feedback loops for students and instructors, improve writing and critical thinking skills, and cultivate student-centered, trust-based educational learning environments.
Packback team members are passionate, mission-driven lifelong learners. Many of us spent time as educators in classrooms and have experienced first hand just how draining the day to day of educating can be. We have seen the gap between the most and least prepared students grow wider every year. The pressure to close that gap has once rested directly on our shoulders, and we understand the enormous cost of addressing that gap, and also not addressing that gap.
Some of us were intrinsically motivated students, the “teacher’s pets” who never want to stop learning. Some of us were the distracted or unmotivated students who wished their instructors would have adopted the pedagogy behind Packback. But all of us share a passionate commitment to our purpose.
About the role
Packback is seeking a Director of Product to support our mission to help every student follow their curiosity and discover their unique voice.
Packback’s A.I.-powered platform is used by educators in both K-12 and higher education to help their students fall in love with the subject matter, drive personalized learning, and improve student critical thinking and writing skills through real-time AI feedback.
The Director of Product Design will report directly to the Chief Product Officer and will be responsible for overseeing the execution of our product roadmap, helping your team develop the best solutions to every problem, and measuring the success of those solutions.
The Director of Product Design will manage the successful delivery of the annual product roadmap, creating product briefs to onboard product managers and designers to key projects, ensuring that the projects are building the best possible solution to the core project goals and delivering the highest quality user experience, and performing detailed review of project specs and designs.
Most importantly, as our Director of Product Design, you will be responsible for championing our Packback’s Product Design Principles that focus on building a student-centered learning environment, and helping to scale these principles as our team grows.
What you'll do
Qualifications
We’re looking for somebody who is independent, self-motivated and eager to grow Packback’s capabilities.
Additional Information
Build a meaningful career while innovating the future of education as a part of a company culture that fosters the growth, safety, and creativity of its employees.
Packback knows that the single most important part of any company is its people. We take building and maintaining a conscious and intentional culture of open communication, curiosity, and leadership extremely seriously. We work hard to make Packback a safe environment where people can focus on doing great work instead of dealing with drama.
Packback’s career development tracks present a unique balance between clarity and guidance around defined paths, and room for our team to forge their own path. Each team has its own career development tracks with support and training, and still allow for customization of these paths to create a role where a team member’s full passions and abilities are put to use!
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