Product Manager, IT

Job Description The Product Manager – PowerSchool Solutions serves as the strategic and operational lead for products and integrations supporting the PowerSchool ecosystem. This role partners cross-functionally with engineering, implementation, customer success, curriculum, and school operations teams to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions that improve the educational experience for students, families, educators, and administrators. The Product Manager combines deep understanding of K–12 education systems, SIS workflows, and customer needs with strong product execution capabilities to define roadmap priorities, drive feature delivery, optimize integrations, and measure product success. This role is responsible for ensuring solutions align with district operational requirements, compliance standards, and Stride’s strategic goals. Essential Functions : Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. Own and drive product strategy, roadmap planning, and execution for PowerSchool-related products, integrations, and operational workflows; Collaborate with engineering, UX, architects, implementation teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of product initiatives; Gather and prioritize requirements from internal stakeholders, schools, district partners, and customers to ensure solutions address operational and instructional needs; Translate business requirements into clear user stories, workflows, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications; Manage and prioritize product, release, and sprint backlogs based on business value, customer impact, technical complexity, and strategic priorities; Serve as a subject matter expert for PowerSchool SIS workflows, data models, APIs, and integrations; Partner with implementation and support teams to improve onboarding, adoption, scalability, and customer satisfaction; Identify opportunities for automation, operational efficiency, reporting enhancements, and data quality improvements; Support interoperability initiatives involving student information systems, rostering, identity management, LMS integrations, and state reporting requirements; Analyze customer feedback, usage metrics, operational data, and support trends to drive continuous product improvement; Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and collaborate closely with Scrum teams to deliver high-quality product increments; Coordinate release planning, product communications, training materials, and rollout strategies across multiple schools and business units; Ensure product solutions align with accessibility standards, security requirements, compliance expectations, and data governance practices; Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including district partners, vendors, and third-party technology providers; Inspire and motivate cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, scalable, and customer-focused solutions. Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities. Minimum Required Qualifications: Five (5) years of product management, business systems, education technology, or related experience; Experience working with Student Information Systems (SIS), preferably PowerSchool; Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Certificates and Licenses: None required. OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Demonstrated experience leading complex technology product initiatives from discovery through release; Experience working within K–12 education systems, school operations, or education technology environments; Strong understanding of PowerSchool functionality, SIS workflows, scheduling, enrollment, grading, attendance, and/or state reporting processes; Experience managing integrations, APIs, data exchange processes, and interoperability standards; Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make data-informed decisions; Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams; Strong communication, organizational, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills; Experience working in Agile software development environments, including Scrum and/or Kanban; Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms; Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment; Experience creating product documentation, release notes, training materials, and implementation guidance; Strong customer empathy and ability to translate user needs into scalable product solutions; Ability to travel up to 5% of the time; Ability to pass a required background check. Desired Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Technology, or related field; Experience with PowerSchool APIs, plugins, custom pages, or platform integrations; Knowledge of Ed-Fi, OneRoster, Clever, ClassLink, or related interoperability standards; Prior leadership or people management experience preferred. Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range. We anticipate the salary range to be $66,379.50- $111,000.00. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. WORK ENVIRONMENT : The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is home-based position. The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. Job Type Regular The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting [email protected]. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. A pplicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.