K-12 ELA Product Strategy Advisor (MVP)

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