Group Product Manager, Student Experience (Remote)

Job Description

For other positions, some roles may be based outside of our Denver office (as stated in the Job Title). Roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 26 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

Roles for The Beehive are all onsite in Denver. The Beehive is an Early Childhood Education Center for children of Guild Education Denver employees, located adjacent to our Denver offices.

Guild is hiring a Group Product Manager to join our Student Experience Product Management team.

Guild’s product teams harness technology to enable thousands of students to go to school affordably by connecting them to a dynamic learning marketplace. Guild is on a journey to streamline how we onboard, operate and support tens of thousands of students in their pursuit of education and upward mobility.

In this role, you’ll craft a shared vision for how Guild’s student experience should be career oriented and seamless across product, coaching and marketing tools that students experience especially as our business scales 10x in the coming years. To do that, you’ll need to develop a deep understanding of our products, operations, marketing complexities and the business use cases they enable. You’ll play a key role in evolving our student experience to be more outcome focused and connected across the student channels.

As the product leader for the area you will:

• Partner with our SVPs of Product, Marketing and Student Services as well as the senior leadership team to think big-picture and long-term about how our systems and experiences will need to evolve in the coming years to support student career mobility journey.
• Distill complex technical issues to their essential elements and communicate those elements as necessary to non-technical audiences.
• Develop and implement plans to connect career outcomes focused experiences across product, coaching and marketing communications while anticipating any risks and client impacts.
• Understand the needs of Guild’s product delivery teams and build a roadmap that enables them to move with higher quality and velocity, while ensuring cross team collaboration and communication

You are a strong fit for this role if you have:

• 7+ years of related experience in product management or a similar function developing and implementing technology systems and services
• 2+ years of building and managing teams
• 5+ years of experience working with marketing or operations teams.
• An affinity for building comprehensive and ready for scale systems with a passion for cohesive and seamless end user experiences
• Ability to navigate multiple levels from understanding micro user stories to translating business requirements to producing synthesis product strategy, with a “no task is too small” mentality
• Structured and systems thinking and strong problem solving skills
• Understanding of career pathing and career mobility needs of working adults
• Helped fast-growth businesses transition from v1 to v2
• Demonstrated capability of developing and evangelizing a shared vision across the organization, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to manage complex business problems across internal and external partners while meeting deadlines to ensure successful delivery
• A track record of working closely and effectively with engineering and business teams, establishing standard methodologies in areas such as scrum of scrums

We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $180,000 - $221,250, as well as company stock options.

Guild is increasing economic mobility for working adults by partnering with the largest employers in the country to offer education as a benefit to their employees via our marketplace of nonprofit universities and education institutions. Guild’s proprietary technology platform facilitates the administration of this innovative benefit and our team of coaches helps each employee navigate the path back to school, providing individualized support from day one through program completion.

Guild is a female-led, Certified B Corporation - and with a valuation of $3.8 billion is one of the highest-valued, privately held education companies in the world, and the only one led by a woman. Guild's investors include Ken Chenault, General Catalyst Partners, chairman and former CEO of American Express, Emerson, and Iconiq.

Guild Education is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• 3 weeks of vacation in the first year and an open vacation policy after year 1 to help recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 14 weeks of parental leave, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, and fertility care benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including access to free and low cost mental health resources and support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

Guild requires COVID-19 vaccines for all employees and guests attending Guild events or entering Guild offices. As of February 1, 2022 , we will be expanding our in-person vaccination requirement to include booster shots. We will be using both Clear’s Digital Vaccine Card and state-sponsored vaccine passports to verify proof of vaccine. Accommodations or exceptions can be requested for medical or religious reasons.