Product Development Manager

Title: Product Development Manager

Payroll Title: Product Manager

Division & Department: Education Platform Development

Status: Full-Time Exempt

Reports to: Manager of Product Management

Location: Remote - Anywhere in the contiguous US

Compensation: Anticipated compensation for this position is $106,935 - $125,726*.

Job Summary

As a Product Development Manager at FranklinCovey, you'll serve as the critical link between our platform and content teams-owning the scope, design, implementation, and optimization of scalable technical solutions that align with our product strategy. This highly cross-functional role blends strategic product thinking with operational execution, helping ensure that our products are built, launched, and maintained with clarity and precision. You're a detail-oriented, systems-minded problem solver with a passion for building clarity between business goals and technical implementation. You're comfortable toggling between strategic discussions and tactical execution, and you thrive in cross-functional environments.

Essential Job Functions

Strategic Planning

• Collaborate with stakeholders to contribute to strategic product roadmaps.
• Design and prototype potential solutions for business need.
• Determine how to best implement improvements to the design of a product while suggesting ways to cope with limitations of features in current versions.
• Work with cross-functional teams to plan launch strategies for new and existing products.
• Work with management to launch products on time and within budget.
• Analyze existing workflows, identify areas for improvement, and document processes.

Product Development & Execution

• Analyze information from various sources and stakeholders using a range of approaches that determine how to change, save or improve existing products.
• Elicit and document detailed business requirements for new and enhanced products.
• Conduct stakeholder and user persona interviews.
• Track requirements from conception to release with cross-functional teams and project managers.
• Monitor and assess product performance by making recommendations for future improvements using your unique and proven understanding of balancing business needs with customer needs.
• Outline dashboard requirements for internally tracking the success of post-released products.
• Provide ongoing support to internal teams and users of implemented solutions, addressing issues and ensuring smooth operations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with Content, UX, Engineering, QA, Support and other teams to ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Pose questions effectively and lead others effectively to achieve goals by suggesting changes to a product and explaining how they may help the business.
• Effectively communicate with and manage expectations of stakeholders and all internal groups during the product build by maintaining timelines and providing status updates.
• Work closely with launch teams to create internal and external training for release.
• Effectively share information with all involved parties of the product lifecycle: verbally, written, or by team presentation.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, product development, computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in product operations, technical product management, technical program management or business analysis

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of product architecture, content delivery systems, and/or digital learning tools
• Proven ability to gather and document business requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Experience managing product lifecycles and collaborating with engineering, design, and content teams
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills-able to distill complexity into simplicity
• Experience in software and web development, edtech, content platforms, or professional learning products
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails or MVC coding languages
• Strong understanding of API's and system integrations
• Familiarity with IOS and Android development

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, employee stock purchasing program, 401(k), paid time off, holiday pay, and more. Please visit for details.

• Actual offer may be outside of this prediction and will be determined by education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as geographic location, internal equity and alignment with market data.

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