Senior Product Manager – Safety Training & Compliance

About the Role

The Senior Product Manager for the Safety Training & Compliance suite will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of a core set of products that help K–12 schools train staff, meet safety and compliance requirements, and reduce administrative burden while strengthening overall school safety. This portfolio includes tools that enable districts to deliver and track mandated training, manage compliance tasks and reporting, and support consistent, audit-ready processes. The role will also initially include oversight of StudentWatch, a set of legacy modules focused on student behavior, incident tracking, and safety reporting, with the expectation that the Senior Product Manager will partner closely with the Student Wellbeing team to evolve and integrate the most valuable capabilities into the appropriate long-term product strategy.

In the near term, this Senior Product Manager will work closely with existing customers on the legacy platform to support key outcomes such as customer satisfaction, retention, and adoption, while driving enhancements, optimizations, and ongoing delivery across current-state initiatives. In parallel, the role will play a critical part in shaping the future of the portfolio—navigating a complex legacy platform with multiple modules and determining what to modernize, consolidate, integrate, or sunset. This work will be grounded in a combination of quantitative insights, including product usage, adoption, sales performance, and customer satisfaction metrics, as well as qualitative input from customer research, cross-functional partners, and executive leadership.

As a senior thought partner across engineering, design, sales, marketing, and Customer Operations, you will translate these insights into a clear product strategy and an executable roadmap, while remaining hands-on in prioritization, delivery, and continuous improvement. A key measure of success will be your ability to effectively communicate and champion your vision—building alignment with leadership and stakeholders—while ensuring the Safety Training & Compliance portfolio continues to deliver value today and evolves to support the company’s broader Student Wellbeing strategy over time.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Product Management team and stakeholders to understand customer, business and market needs; ensure alignment with product portfolio vision and the portfolio roadmap for our safety training and compliance suite plus legacy PublicSchoolWORKS.
• Develop and own the product strategy to increase customer adoption and drive new sales, leveraging a cloud-based, mobile enabled SaaS platform. 
• Partner with Product Marketing to understand market needs, direction, trends, and competitive market forces 
• Work directly with customers to understand their current needs and leverage these relationships in validating product direction and ideas. 
• Interface and engage with our client services and professional services teams to understand and address faster time to implementation and improved customer experience. 
• Evaluate and understand strategic customer and market needs to inform the prioritization of sprint planning and the direction of product roadmaps 
• Utilize Agile best practices to collaborate with engineering and design leads in the definition and prioritization of customer and internal user requirements, technical debt, security vulnerabilities, system bugs, and any other necessary work to establish a groomed backlog of work for product development. 
• Utilize product discovery techniques and metrics to evaluate and understand product usage, risk, data, and analytics to inform product decision making 
• Develop and deliver on realistic, aggressive delivery timelines in coordination with product management, development, creative and other stakeholders 
• Provide overall product leadership to resolve any impediment across the whole product life cycle for Hosting, Support, Marketing, Training, and Sales which are preventing the achievement of desired outcomes 
• Manage the product life cycle from conception through release, organizational readiness, go-to-market, and beyond to ensure adoption and monetization goals are achieved for the customer and Raptor 
• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap for short-term, mid-term, and long-term horizons 
• Maintain a high degree of communication across technology, development, support, implementations, sales and marketing departments in the execution of these goals 
• Develop, present, and execute product plans, partnering strategies, product positioning, white papers, product briefs, sales training, partner training and competitive analysis 
• Service as the subject matter expert for your product; participate in and give presentations, and demonstrations internally as well as at conferences, training sessions, customers, and partners 
• Travel as needed to attend conferences, assist the sales team, speaking engagements, and product team meetings 
• Other relevant projects, as needed 

Qualifications:

• Approximately 10 years of Software Product Management experience 
• Experience in K12 is strongly preferred 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related discipline. Education requirements may be satisfied with commensurate experience 
• Strong experience in SaaS and cloud-based products a must 
• Strong agile SDLC experience a must (with use of JIRA, Atlassian, Confluence) 
• Mobile ecosystem a plus 
• Strong leadership and project management skills 
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks to successful completion 
• Ability to effectively present and interact with all levels up to executive-level management 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, flexibility and adaptability to change, strong decision-making and critical thinking skills 
• Enjoy working in highly active and collaborative cross-functional agile product team environment 
• Understanding of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns 
• Highly responsive and participates proactively and constantly in the team activities 
• Strong ownership of your product and ability to lead the team through peer collaboration and influencing others to deliver quality solutions in a timely manner 
• Proven ability to analyze and synthesize information and convert it into actionable plans and business cases  

• You join the gold standard in school safety software. 
• You will join a company where innovation and customer collaboration are part of what drives new product development to help keep kids safe. 
• You will work with diverse teams made up of some of the best minds in the industry.
• You will get exposure to strong mentorship and leadership that have supported a long history of career advancement opportunities for our employees. 
• You will have access to a robust benefits package that includes: 
• Remote-first philosophy 
• Flexible paid time off 
• Paid parental leave 
• 11 Paid holidays per year 
• Workplace flexibility 
• Affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), paid 100% for employee only medical 
• 401(k) employer contribution to help you plan for the future 
• Company paid life insurance, STD, and LTD