K-12 ELA Product Strategy Advisor (MVP)
Playpower Labs
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 plusApply for this job
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