Sample Job- Project Manager
Overview
Interested in joining a mission-driven nonprofit company focused on building online educational tools powered by machine learning? Quill.org is looking for a technical project manager to work closely with our leadership team in managing our roadmap, driving new features through our product development process, and owning other company-wide initiatives.
At Quill, we’ve created an online learning platform to help K-12 students improve their reading and writing ability. Our pedagogy is based on years of research that shows that once students understand the logic behind constructing sentences, their ability to read and write improves dramatically. Unlike common multiple-choice-based learning tools, our tools allow students to practice writing sentences and passages in their browser, while still receiving real-time, focused feedback.
Responsibilities:
Help millions of students improve their reading and writing comprehension.
Work with people across the organization as the primary project manager for a number of new products and features, including maintaining project timelines, mapping responsibilities, identifying dependencies, and defining success criteria.
Manage our product board and product backlog, making sure everything is current, and adding specifications/documentation as needed.
Run our product team meetings, including sprint planning meetings and retrospectives, and work with our engineering team to identify sprint capacity.
Work closely with our Senior Leadership Team to keep our product roadmap up to date, including helping prioritize projects and break them into individual tasks, maintaining our timeline and keeping our roadmap consistent with our product boards.
Serve as our project contact for a new partnership with a key external partner, including maintaining the project timing and driving implementation of security and privacy requirements.
Conduct periodic reviews of key metrics and share how products are performing against metrics/KPIs.
Requirements/Qualifications:
You believe in Quill’s mission of improving education.
You are an independent worker who can own full projects.
You have 2+ years of project management experience, including creating and executing on project plans and setting/measuring project goals.
You understand basic programming concepts well-enough to effectively communicate with our engineering team, run engineering/product planning meetings, and write product specifications.
You enjoy working collaboratively with people across multiple teams and are comfortable supporting multiple stakeholders.
You're organized and have experience successfully prioritizing across multiple projects.
You're a great communicator.
You value sharing knowledge, personal growth, positive feedback, and continuously improving team practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience as a technical project manager or product manager.
Experience as a teacher or in the education system.
You've taken a course on programming in Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and/or Python, or taught yourself the basics of one of these languages.