About The Opportunity

The Technical Project Manager role is a unique opportunity for the right individual to shape, lead & coordinate initiatives critical to Eduphoria’s ongoing success. They will join our teams’ efforts to support Educators and Students by helping teams deliver incredibly useful, performant, and stable software.

As our Product & Engineering departments continue to grow and evolve, we are committed to consistently providing the right solutions to our customers & users. In many cases, these projects are highly technical in nature, in that they improve not just a single application but the Eduphoria platform as a whole.

We believe the ideal person for this role understands the complex nature of these types of projects and will demonstrate experience tackling these novel challenges, while addressing the system-wide impact that comes with building and maintaining new platform functionality.

The exceptional candidate will collaborate on defining project goals, identify key milestones & deliverables, and facilitate execution and release of each deliverable alongside their team members. They will also need to operate in a highly cross-functional capacity, coordinating with Engineering teammates, project stakeholders, and customer-facing team members. While this position lives within the Engineering org, they will also work closely with Product Managers and the rest of the Product org. The Technical Project Manager will report to the VP of Engineering.

Responsibilities/Functions

• Helps define project goals
  • Understands the problem set and can clearly define problem statements that the project seeks to address
  • Can clearly articulate an end state where each problem has been addressed in a satisfactory manner
  • Works with stakeholders across multiple business units to weight and prioritize each problem statement
  • Ensures that all team members fully understand the nature and impact of each main problem statement
• Leads shaping of project solutions: Able to deconstruct complex initiatives into phased solutions that
  • Make clear progress on addressing one or more prioritized problem statement
  • Can be built & delivered independently in a 3-6 week timeframe
  • Are appropriately focused efforts that acknowledge & avoid scope creep and other costly rabbit-holes
• Helps define and prioritize team backlog & work in progress
  • Able to work with Developers and QA teammates to deconstruct milestone deliverables into actionable user stories and tasks with clear acceptance criteria
  • Proficient at making prioritization and scoping decisions, to maximize the likely on-time delivery of high quality product
  • Facilitates scope negotiations & tradeoffs during the project build process
  • Comfortable signing off on completed stories and tasks
• Drives continual cross-functional alignment to ensure that successful project completion and release includes documentation, customer communication,
  • Provides detailed updates on status, progress, direction, and adherence to project timeline/budget
  • Partners with team members in Marketing, Account Management, Customer Success etc. to maximize their ability to promote and support these projects
  • Documents scoping, business rule, and other key decisions to ensure ongoing understanding and alignment
  • Coordinates development & delivery timelines on both technical and non-technical asset Delivery

Skills and Personal Attributes

Requested Skills/Experience:

• Significant experience (5+ years) as an individual contributor on agile development teams
• Proficient at writing user stories that articulate clear acceptance criteria and business rules
• Understands and can build shared understanding of the underlying “nuts & bolts” of consumer applications (examples might include: roles & permissions management, large file transfers, media encoding, partner API integrations)
• Can communicate technical concepts (problem complexity, challenges, concerns) to a non-technical audience
• Proficient in agile practices and underlying principles, and can easily adapt to different flavors of agility
• Is highly organized and demonstrates meticulous attention to detail, as it relates both to meeting project deliverables as well as coordinating delivery of important cross-functional outputs

Preferred Skills / Experience: 

• Has been a Product Manager helping to deliver impactful functionality to hundreds of thousands of users (or more)
• Has experience serving in a leadership capacity on one or more agile development teams
• Has been an influential force on the development of products and features that significantly shifted the way a platform functions
• Exhibits the ability to quickly familiarize themselves with new business domains

About Eduphoria!

Eduphoria! was started with the belief that educators are heroes. Our purpose is to provide educators what they need to become superheroes. By bringing together assessment, curriculum, and professional growth for those closest to the student, educators can gain awareness, make thoughtful changes, and help students and educators thrive.

Our supportive, family-like environment extends to the educators we work with, allowing us to collaborate effectively. We believe in creating a culture where everyone is learning, teaching, and growing.

We Believe

We believe in creating an environment where everyone can learn, teach, and thrive. We want everyone on the team to continually improve themselves and also help others to improve.

We think developers should have all the hardware and tools they need to do their best work. We believe technology can be used to improve students' and teachers' lives.

We want developers who are self-motivated, take pride in crafting their code, and love collaborating with other developers.

Eduphoria! Offers You: 

• Competitive salary with bonus opportunity
• Medical & Dental Insurance: The company covers 100% of premiums for employee and their dependents 
• HSA - Employer contributes monthly to cover employee's individual deductible
• Unlimited flexible PTO
• 11 Holidays, as well as 2 weeks at the end of the year to rest and recharge
• 401k with employer match, pre-tax / Roth options
• Work Remotely with no pressure 
• Long-Term Disability
• $50,000 Life Insurance Policy for the employee
• Cell Phone/Internet Service Allowance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Assortment of voluntary policies (Vision, MASA, Critical Illness, Accident, Supplemental Life Insurance, Pet insurance, and more)
• Reimbursement for business-related expenses
• Professional Development Opportunities with leadership support 
• Friendly, collaborative, small company environment with a technically progressive culture/focus

Why work at Eduphoria? Here’s what our Employees are saying…

“[It’s an] exciting opportunity to make a difference in an unconventional tech space. In the front-end, we are using cutting-edge tools and process to deliver a great user and developer experience.” — Victor, Staff Engineer

“If you're willing to learn, everyone is always openly willing to give you access to knowledge. Whether it be resources, something that they have learned from their experiences in various companies/positions, or assisting you in finding the information that you seek. This allows me to grow my skill set to not only better serve myself professionally, but to better serve my teammates that require something from ME to do their job. I love that all it takes is asking a question, and you can learn so much here. ” — Ismael, QA Engineer

“Two things I love about working at Eduphoria:
Our mission - We've always cared most about empowering teachers and affecting students' success.
Our culture - I consider the people I work with my friends, not just coworkers. People come on board and stay. We find a balance between flexibility and getting stuff done.” — Jeremy, Sr Engineer

“My 2 favorite things about working here have been the ability to learn/grow/experiment (and the support to do that) and the people here.  And I do really love what we do, too.  It's rewarding being a part of something that can positively affect so many educators and students.  It's cool that I'll randomly meet teachers or educators in my personal life and they'll have good things to say about our software and our people.” — Kevin, Software Engineer

“It really is like a family here.. You can talk to everybody at all levels, and they are open and very caring. Everybody is willing to share and contribute, and if any of us go through personal issues, everybody has been supportive. Work/Life balance here is second to none. We also listen to what our customer needs are, and do our best to make it happen.” — John, Sr Engineer

Eduphoria! is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Please note, we can hire those who are eligible to work in the United States, but we are not able to sponsor visas.