Academic Product Manager - Remote Eligible

Academic Product Manager

The Academic Product Manager plays a key role in driving strategic product initiatives and managing academic projects that support the university's mission. This hybrid role blends product strategy, academic innovation, and project execution. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and project management expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Support product strategy, roadmap, product launch process and drive execution effectively with stakeholders.
• Define and prioritize the product roadmap based on market research, competitive analysis, and customer feedback.
• Track product performance metrics, including enrollment, customer satisfaction, retention, and graduation.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis to identify customer needs, industry trends, competitive positioning.
• Capture and analyze product-related data and data-driven insights within the organization.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the product management team.
• Collaborate with Academic, Development, Finance, Content and Marketing, Legal and Accreditation and other stakeholders to define product requirements, prioritize development efforts, and ensure on-time, high-quality product delivery.
• Planning, organizing, and monitoring projects' scope, dependencies, impact, timeline, documentation, and effective use of resources.
• Activity monitoring, including collaborating with project leads to guide task completion and helping clear roadblocks.
• Drafting and sharing project documentation.
• Development of project dashboards relative to needs of project team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of Project Management experience
• Strong understanding of product management, the higher education industry, and student engagement
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making abilities, with proficiency in leveraging user insights, market data, and analytics tools to inform product strategy.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to function within a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Must be able to work independently, use initiative, and make substantive decisions quickly.
• Preferred experience and skills:
• Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Power Automate.
• Advanced experience in use of project management software such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Trello, or other project management tools.

About Us: American Public University System (APUS) is an Online University based in Charles Town, WV. Our company has over 100,000 students. Our emphasis is educating our nation's military and public services communities with quality and affordable education. APUS provides partnership and commitment in helping students realize the dream of a higher education and the opportunities that brings.

It is the policy of American Public University System (APUS) and American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) to afford equal opportunity to all qualified persons. We treat all qualified individuals equally as to their recruitment, hiring, assignments, advancements, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment. of American Public University System (APUS) does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Pay Transparency Statement If you are a resident of a state with designated pay transparency requirements and this role is available remotely, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Please send an email to recruiting@apei.com.