timely - Product Manager

• Lead early product discovery in a new area to identify and prioritize customer problems, in collaboration with Engineering stakeholders for technical discovery. • Lead ideation and design exercises to generate potential solutions and approaches to solving customer problems, leveraging the Success team and other stakeholders. • Write product stories that include the “why,” “what,” and “when,” while working closely with Engineering to define the “how”. • Collaborate with Engineering stakeholders to build initial prototypes and MVPs. • Establish goal- and metric-setting processes with Engineering, to motivate and measure the work. • Engage with potential customers to ideate and gather feedback on product and prototypes. • Foster a culture of delivering value by setting and adjusting milestones, maintaining high standards, and keeping the team focused on impact. • Communicate product decisions with clarity and enthusiasm, ensuring internal and external stakeholders understand priorities, and the reasoning behind them. • Mindset: You are a self-starter who is comfortable working in ambiguity and passionate about creating opportunities in education. You are excited by complex problems and imaginative solutions, particularly those that leverage AI. You take on new challenges eagerly and are driven to see ideas through to completion. You take ownership, communicate progress effectively, and adapt quickly in a fast-paced startup environment. • Experience: 4+ years in B2B SaaS product organizations, with at least 2 years as a Product Manager. Experience building complex products that leverage AI. • Skills: Strong in customer discovery, data analysis, and user-centric story writing. Experience with agile tools (e.g., Jira, Notion, Miro, etc.). • Strengths: Collaborative by default, detail-oriented problem solver, and a visual communicator (e.g., mockups, sketches, diagrams, journey maps, etc). • Nice-to-have (not required): Background in EdTech and/or education sector; experience in product development - e.g., front-end development, UX design; experience taking a product from 0 to 1 either within a company or as a new startup.