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K-12 ELA Product Strategy Advisor (MVP) Playpower Labs  |  Remote Remote Dec 29

EdSurge

EdSurge

Product
Remote
Posted on Dec 30, 2025

What you’ll do

You’ll help us shape an MVP for a US K–12 audience by translating deep industry knowledge into practical product decisions. Your focus is: what to build now, what to defer, and why—based on buyer needs, classroom realities, district constraints, and integration/compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

MVP definition & prioritization

  • Define the MVP scope: must-have vs. nice-to-have vs. not-now.
  • Produce a prioritized feature list with rationale and tradeoffs.

Customer & market reality checks

  • Provide a lightweight competitive/alternative analysis (what schools already use; where switching costs are high).

Validation plan

  • Create a simple plan to validate the MVP quickly:
    • Pilot design ideas (what success looks like in a classroom/district)
    • Metrics to track (activation, weekly active usage by role, teacher retention, outcome proxies)

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in US K–12 EdTech product (product management, product strategy, or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated ability to define MVP scope and make tradeoffs (not just ideation)
  • Strong understanding of how US K–12 actually works:
    • Stakeholders: teachers, principals, curriculum, district IT, procurement
    • Adoption realities and classroom workflows
  • Ability to communicate clearly with founders/engineering and turn insight into actionable decisions
  • Background across different segments (elementary vs secondary, core instruction vs supplemental)
  • Experience with district deployments, pilots, or procurement/RFP processes is a plus

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