Director of Product, Assessment Products (Remote)
Company: Teaching Strategies, LLC
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
Be a Part of Our Team!Join a working family that is dedicated to
the mission of the work we do!Teaching Strategies is an innovative
ed-tech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and
families. As front runners in the early childhood education market,
we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all
of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum,
assessment, professional development, and family engagement.The
Company, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is the leader in the
Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector, providing the most widely
used developmental assessment and curriculum system in the US,
serving children from birth through 3rd grade. Recently, Teaching
Strategies launched a first-of-its-kind integrated digital
curriculum, assessment and family communications solution to
support traditional and remote learning environments and is
experiencing significant growth.The Early Childhood Education
sector has been one of the fastest growing segments of the
Education market over the past few years. With bi-partisan support,
increasing funding streams and an increasing understanding of the
positive impact that whole child development can have on academic
and life success, the sector is expected to expand significantly in
the public and private sectors in the coming years worldwide.In
addition to the very healthy market tailwinds, there are several
additional reasons this opportunity is compelling:There are few
sectors where the intersection of for-profit and for-good combine
so powerfully. The opportunity to create down-stream lasting effect
on human outcomes is profound: 80% of the human brain is formed by
the age of 3 and providing high-quality developmental experiences
from birth to age 5 has an outsized effect on what happens in
school and in life. There is no way to move the needle on human
opportunity more drastically than improving the quality and
availability of effective early childhood learning.The early
childhood space is a step or two behind has not yet benefited from
the powerful advances seen in similar other industries such as
healthcare in which the application of powerful data,
recommendation engines, dashboards, and interactive tools has
significantly increased the speed and precision of diagnosis,
remediation, and interaction between practitioner and "patient."
Early childhood education is one of the few last frontiers in which
the powerful use of data and insights have not yet elevated work
streams and efficacy.There is no other company in the market with
the reach, reputation, mission-orientation, balance sheet, and
financial sponsors to make the kind of significant new headway over
the next 3-5 years as Teaching Strategies. Teaching Strategies is
on pace to build a powerful digital SaaS platform that more
seamlessly connects the 5 pillars of its designed solution to
maximize child outcomes: curriculum, assessment, family engagement,
child-facing tech, and professional development.The Director Assess
will be well-positioned to push this agenda forward. With the
investment dollars and culture to support explosive growth, this
individual will contribute significantly to Teaching Strategies
impact and revenue goals.The OpportunityBased anywhere in the U.S.
and reporting directly to the VP of Product, the Director of
Assessment Products will be an integral member of the product team
and a core driver of the company's transition to a digital SaaS
company. You will be responsible for creating functionality and
digital services for our Assess pillar of products and services,
including our flagship assessment product, Teaching Strategies
GOLD. Working in close collaboration with our Teacher workflow and
research teams, you will also lead the research-based,
psychometric, data driven aspects that are integral to the validity
and integrity of our Assessment product. You will also be
responsible for understanding and capturing the needs of
administrators in addition to teachers and translating those needs
into articulate and value-adding requirements with our technology
team. Lastly, you will need to understand our larger well enough to
make short and long-term trade-offs across different products and
have a solid understanding of our Teach and Engage pillars to
support this work.Success in this role will require this individual
to have a proclivity for building strong partnerships with multiple
cross-functional stakeholders including, but not limited to, other
product managers, systems analysts, software developers, and UX/UI
designers to drive the development, testing, rollout and evolution
of Teaching Strategies continued growth as a digital SaaS
company.Responsibilities
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