Sketchy is a visual learning platform for students & professionals to effortlessly learn and recall information through art, storytelling and spaced repetition.
The company was born when four medical students began creating sketched stories to distinguish and memorize similarly named viruses, and they realized that the same learning methodologies could be used across a variety of subjects.
Since its inception in 2013, Sketchy has become the premiere learning destination for medical students around the world.
It’s used by 1 in 2 medical students in the United States, has an alumni base of over 300,000 students and helps students answer questions 77% faster than conventional teaching.
Sketchy is a TCG (The Chernin Group) portfolio company (joining other companies such as Headspace, Food52, Barstool Sports and Crunchyroll) and a Reach Capital portfolio company (joining other start-up companies that bring a playfulness to learning).
About the Role:
Sketchy is seeking a Senior Product Manager to help lead our innovation in education for students and institutions around the world.
You will report directly to the Chief Product Officer and will be a key member of the team in a small, high-growth company that has already achieved product-market fit.
You’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining and transforming our current product as you define our product roadmap to shape our future product direction.
You will be the voice of the product vision across the company and partner closely with engineering, content, design, sales, and marketing to manage the successful ideation, development, and delivery of the Sketchy platform, products, and community.
Success will require collaboration across groups to ensure the product strategy is well-defined and executed.
User research, prioritizing a backlog, translating requirements into specs to ship features, innovative “design thinking” expertise and attention-to-detail in a fast-paced, high-growth environment is required
Working at Sketchy:
We are headquartered in Los Angeles but have teammates that collaborate remotely from cities across the United States.
As travel and working conditions return back to “normal”, we will find opportunities to increasingly meet and collaborate in person.
While you will always have a seat to work from at our Los Angeles HQ, our transition to a remote-first company will allow you to work from the location of your choice in select states across the country
Location: This role is open to remote employees in select US states: Texas, California, New York, Hawaii, Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington and Washington, D.C.
Key Responsibilities
Translate company goals and strategy into short and medium-term objectives for the product team Create a high-trust partnership with teammates in engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to effectively balance the priorities of internal teams with our students’ goals and larger strategic priorities Managing our product backlog prioritized by business impact and student experience while balancing implementation cost and complexity Work with your engineering and design partners to manage our sprints and scope efforts to decide which features to build, write requirements and specs that create clarity for your team, and ensure features are shipped in a timely manner Understanding and using data from all digital learning and community products to increase key metrics (e.g.
active user growth, revenue, retention, etc.)
Preferred Experience
6+ years of experience in product management in consumer digital learning and education technology companies Experience working in early-stage startups (Seed, Series A) Track record of demonstrating great judgment of when to ship: “Perfect is the enemy of good” Experience in working in product management in companies that are going from “zero to one”
What We Offer:
Competitive compensation plan Innovative, high growth, and collaborative culture.
Generous PTO package with floating holidays Fun team events (Monthly and virtual for now) Great Benefits including Medical, dental, vision, 401k and more
Sketchy Group LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All applicants will receive consideration without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by applicable law
JOB CODE: 04/05/2021
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