When the power of edX is at its fullest, individuals become the students they had always hoped to be, Professors teach the courses they had always imagined and Universities offer educational opportunities never before seen. None of that happens by accident, so edX is seeking a Product Manager who can keep their eyes on the future and their heart and hands with a team of ferociously intelligent and dedicated technologists.
-The responsibility of a Product Manager is first and foremost to provide evidence to the development team that what they build will succeed in the marketplace. It is the responsibility of the Product Manager to define the product backlog and the team to build the backlog. The Product Manager is one of the most highly leveraged individuals in the Engineering organization. They work to bring a deep knowledge of the Customer – Students, Professors and Course Staff to the Product Roadmap. The Product Manager is well-versed in the data and sets the KPI’s that drives the team, the Product Scorecard and the Company Scorecard. They are expected to become experts in the business of online learning, familiar with blended models, MOOC’s and University and Industry needs and the competition. The Product Manager must be able to understand the edX stakeholders. +
The responsibility of a Product Manager is first and foremost to provide evidence to the development team that what they build will succeed in the marketplace. It is the responsibility of the Product Manager to define the product backlog and the team to build the backlog. The Product Manager is one of the most highly leveraged individuals in the Engineering organization. They work to bring a deep knowledge of the Customer – Students, Professors and Course Staff to the product roadmap. The Product Manager is well-versed in the data and sets the KPI’s that drives the team, the Product Scorecard and the Company Scorecard. They are expected to become experts in the business of online learning, familiar with blended models, MOOC’s and University and Industry needs and the competition. The Product Manager must be able to understand the edX stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Forums: We are building our own Forums software because we believe that education requires a forums platform capable of supporting learning communities. We are analytics driven. The ideal Forums candidates are focused on metrics and key performance indicators, understand how to build on top of a service based architecture and are wedded to quick iterations and user feedback. -
Analytics: We are looking for a platform engineer who has deep MongoDB or no SQL database experience. Our data infrastructure needs to scale to multiple tera bytes. Researchers from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and edX Universities will use our analytics platform to research and examine the fundamentals of learning. The analytics engineer will be responsible for both building out an analytics platform and a pub-sub and real-time pipeline processing architecture. Together they will allow researchers, students and Professors access to never before seen analytics. +
Analytics: We are looking for a platform engineer who has deep MongoDB or no SQL database experience. Our data infrastructure needs to scale to multiple terabytes. Researchers from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and edX Universities will use our analytics platform to research and examine the fundamentals of learning. The analytics engineer will be responsible for both building out an analytics platform and a pub-sub and real-time pipeline processing architecture. Together they will allow researchers, students and Professors access to never before seen analytics.
Course Development Authoring Tools: We are committed to making it easy for Professors to develop and publish their courses online. So we are building the tools that allow them to readily convert their vision to an online course ready for thousands of students.