Associate Digital Product Manager

The Company

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Started in 2003 by a lifelong educator, Heggerty is a growing brand in elementary literacy education, serving thousands of districts across the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Heggerty offers teacher-friendly phonemic awareness and foundational skills curricula, decodable books, and engaging professional development opportunities in person and online.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Heggerty is seeking an Associate Digital Product Manager to support the planning, development, and growth of our customer-facing product website, myHeggerty.

Reporting to the Product Manager for Digital Teaching & Learning, the Associate Digital Product Manager will partner with the Product, Engineering, Curriculum, PD, Sales, and Marketing Teams to understand trends and market opportunities, and will combine this with research, data, and direct customer feedback to collaborate on a multi-year product roadmap for myHeggerty.

Responsibilities

Associate Digital Product Manager’s responsibilities include :

Research -

• Conducting market, competitive, and user research to inform the strategy for Heggerty digital teaching and learning solutions.
• Gathering direct feedback from districts, schools, and teachers through interviews, surveys, product testing, and classroom visits.
• Collecting, analyzing, and presenting qualitative and quantitative data to inform and justify product decisions.

Strategy -

• Collaborating across departments to identify opportunities, share market insights, and establish a clear product vision.
• Proposing product ideas and features that address real classroom needs, make teachers’ lives easier, and improve student learning outcomes.
• Along with the Product Management Team, oversee a roadmap for digital teaching and learning projects that represents strategic growth while delivering high-quality, evidence-based solutions.
• Collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Content Development teams to define product scope and messaging.

Development -

• Working closely with designers, content creators, and technology developers through all stages of product development to define, prioritize, test, and launch new products and features.
• Maintain a backlog of improvements and development projects for the myHeggerty platform.
• Coordinating the work of contributing vendors (as needed).
• Communicating priorities, status, risks, and findings within the team and across the organization.

Implementation -

• Participate in cross-departmental go-to-market activities for the myHeggerty platform.
• Train internal teams on new and updated product solutions.
• Write and maintain product support articles.
• Provide support to customer-facing teams through product launch and implementation.

Requirements

• Curiosity, empathy, and a passion for our mission and values.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable learning new technologies.

Not Required, But Nice To Have

• Previous product management experience not required, but experience with educational technology product development is a plus.
• K-12 Classroom teaching experience a plus.
• Familiarity with the PreK-5 education market a plus.
• Knowledge of the PreK-5 literacy market a plus.

WHAT WE OFFER :

• Competitive salary.
• Medical and dental insurance.
• 401(k) with matching.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays (plus winter break!).
• Independence and autonomy.
• A flexible work environment with the option to work in-person or remotely.

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