Full-Time Remote Closes: 2022-09-08

Product Manager
Think you’ve got a knack for working on a team, and want to be at the forefront of the digital landscape with the fastest-growing peer tutoring platform?

Knack is the leading student success platform, transforming tutoring to prepare students for success in the classroom and 21st-century workplace. In partnership with colleges and universities across the country, Knack delivers affordable and impactful peer tutoring programs that ensure all students have access to the academic support they need to succeed.

If working on a team of constantly curious, driven innovators, who are modernizing peer-to-peer learning, then look no further!

The role…
We are seeking a full-time Product Manager who will work hand-in-hand with every team across our business. This is a dynamic, multifaceted, and challenging role. You will serve as a foundational member of our product team, working directly with our Co-founder/Chief Product Officer. As we continue our high-growth trajectory, you will be a pivotal member in driving the momentum and velocity behind our company’s growth — excited yet?!

What you get…
Competitive salary & vested stock options (equity ownership)
Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), 401K, and wellness stipend
Flexible time off
Remote flexibility and a monthly work-from-home stipend
Company-sponsored technology and equipment
Company events and outings
Autonomy, ownership, and the chance to grow alongside a phenomenal and passionate team every day
What you get to do…
Develop a product vision, strategy, & roadmap within product areas and build alignment with cross-functional teams
Lead product feature scoping and prioritization, including research, brainstorming, and coordination in collaboration with design, engineering, analytics, & other teams
Represent and advocate for key stakeholders within product areas
Define and drive success through clear objectives and measurable key results
Implement best-in-class product development and management practices
Conduct user research and gather insights to refine the product vision, strategy, and roadmap
This may be for you if…
You have 3+ years of deep experience bringing products to life, especially as a product manager
You love digging into very complex human-technology systems and finding simple, holistic solutions
You deeply believe in reasoning from first principles, seeking to uncover the root of problems and the true objectives of users
You can deeply empathize with stakeholders in order to invent on their behalf
You are especially collaborative and value environments where the best ideas win, independent of from whom they arise
You believe that your most important job is to align incentives of stakeholders to maximize their impact
You are a constant creator and improver of process, with discernment of when to utilize processes and when to short circuit them
You deeply value organizing and documenting your work and knowledge for posterity
You crave the challenge of learning and unlocking new capabilities for yourself
You believe premature optimization is a foot-gun, and that 20% of a change may drive 80% of the value
Extra Credit!
Product/UX design experience
Engineering experience
Experience creating a new product
Experience growing a startup
Ed-tech experience
About Knack
Knack Technologies, Inc. was launched in 2016 at the University of Florida by a founding team who came together to build peer-to-peer communities that would be more enjoyable, relevant, and effective than traditional learning environments.

Today, we enable college students to connect with each other for in-person and online tutoring by offering an award-winning peer tutoring platform with web and mobile applications that are equal parts functional and aesthetic. We partner with some of the largest universities in the U.S., serving thousands of students, tutors, and college administrators every single day.

Knack is a fully remote company as of September 2021 (read more about the decision here!). We’re proud to be backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors including Jeff Vinik (Owner, Tampa Bay Lightning), Precursor Ventures, Bellini Capital Partners, Bisk Education Ventures, Elysium Venture Capital, Arizona State University Enterprise Partners, TiE Tampa Bay Angel Fund, and Alex Sink (Former CFO, State of Florida).

We’ve been featured on Inc.com, Forbes, TechCrunch, EdSurge, ELearning Inside, Entrepreneur.com, USA Today, and many other well-known publications/media outlets. Our team has won numerous awards including the 2019 Lumina Foundation’s Education Innovation Prize, UF’s Big Idea Business Plan Competition, Village Capital’s 2018 Education Program, the 2015 Thiel Summit Pitch Competition, and the 2017 1776 Challenge Cup.

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