Product Manager

About CodeHS CodeHS is a comprehensive computer science teaching platform for schools looking to improve or create a computer science program. We offer K-12 curriculum aligned to state and national standards, an online IDE with real-time collaboration, coding LMS with tools for teachers to manage their classrooms, and professional development for educators. We are working with schools all over the world to bring in best-in-class computer science classes. Learn more or sign up today at codehs.com.

CodeHS

Read. Write. Code.

Education TechnologyComputer Science EducationOnline Educationand Professional Development

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codehs.com

51-200 employees

E-Learning Providers

Chicago, Illinois

2012

Privately Held

4.2k LinkedIn followers

Raised $4.2M

• You own a product area end-to-end from concept to launch. Most likely a newer bet where we’re still working out the shape of it, though it could be an existing surface that needs more attention, or a few smaller ones. We’ll decide together once you’re here and have completed onboarding. Either way the goal is that you build up experience and domain expertise in that area and act like an owner.
• You’ll sit with our engineering managers as a peer. You’ll run small teams of engineers with a focus area and are responsible for keeping them on track and ensuring that we build the right thing.
• This is our first formal product role, so you have an opportunity to help shape what the product function can do and how it fits within engineering and the company more broadly.
• How you work
• You build. When you have an idea, go make a version of it. Not production code — a working prototype you drove an AI coding agent to build. Engineers review and take it to completion.
• You write things down. Specs, product briefs, the reasoning behind a decision. If it isn’t written down here, it doesn’t count.
• You talk to the people who use this. Much of the work is strategy and synthesis. But when the answer is in a classroom or on a call with a district, you go. It isn’t a heavy travel role, but you will need to join calls, talk to people on the team and customers, and build an understanding beyond just reasoning through things on your own.
• You connect engineering to everyone else. Sales, customer success, support, and curriculum all have product or tooling needs. Your job is to gather the information, synthesize it, and use that to inform what the right things are to build.
• You should be
• Comfortable being technical, without necessarily having been an engineer. You can read a pull request and argue about a tradeoff without needing it translated. When an engineer raises an issue or blocker, you can ask a useful second question to move us back in the right direction.
• Fluent with AI, and adaptive to how things are changing. You use AI to guide your thinking and move quickly, but you don’t hide behind it for judgment. You should be prototyping with coding agents, running research and synthesis through them, and building yourself tools. You should also be able to describe a time the model was confidently wrong and you caught it. You use AI to be more ambitious and raise the bar for quality.
• High agency. No one hands you a backlog. If you need something to exist, you make it exist.
• A clear communicator. We’re a bottom-line-up-front company. Say the thing first. Make it easy for others to reply to you.

• Salary range: $100,000 - $140,000 base, depending on level and experience.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid parental leave
• Generous PTO and holidays
• Short-term and long-term disability
• CTA monthly pass covered
• Lunch provided 3 days per week