Senior Product Manager

Join Acuity Insights’ startup-to-scaleup journey as a Senior Product Manager. In this fully remote role, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping scale a company with high global growth potential in the higher education sector - and beyond.

You’ll work on innovative, market-leading assessment products that identify and showcase people's potential, shaping the academic journeys of thousands of future professionals.

This role is ideal for a data-driven and delivery-focused product manager with strong foundational practises, user empathy, and a solid grasp of design and engineering who is looking to be part of a people-centric company that prioritizes work-life balance, invests in professional growth, and creates socially impactful products.

What We’re Building

Imagine a world powered by everyone’s FULL potential.

At Acuity Insights, it’s the future we are building.

We founded our company to meet the need for a higher education admissions method that goes beyond academic performance and considers traditionally unseen or undervalued skills and qualities in applicants that are predictive of educational and professional success.

Today, our solutions help discover, nurture and realize potential, supporting holistic success from admissions to graduation for students, education programs, and higher education institutions across North America, the U.K., Australia and Saudi Arabia.

Our core assessment product, Casper, provides education programs with a more holistic view of applicants' potential by measuring their soft skills. Incorporating Casper's insights into the admissions process results in a larger and more diverse applicant pool, greater student success, and better professionals. Since 2014, over 600 higher education programs have adopted Casper, and more than 1 million applicants have registered for the test.

Through our core education management solution, One45, we help medical schools and health professions programs streamline the complex processes of curriculum management and student assessments, providing the data-driven insights needed to graduate competent healthcare professionals.

With our fast-growing data and insights solution, Analytics, we leverage critical integrations with our data warehouse and powerful dashboards to provide medical schools with deep insights and intelligence on student and program performance, powering real-time decision-making and continuous quality improvement.

Opportunity & Impact

As Senior Product Manager, you’ll work remotely from Canada, be a valued member of our Product organization, report to the Director of Product - Assessments, partner with Product Management and Product Marketing Manager peers on the Assessment team, and collaborate with team members from Design, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

You'll spearhead the launch of our innovative new suite of talent assessment tools. These include solutions designed to evaluate candidates' soft skills and communication styles (both verbal and nonverbal) and track their development throughout students’ educational journeys. You'll be instrumental in bringing these groundbreaking tools to market, shaping the future of talent evaluation and development.

Additionally, the products you lead will drive revenue growth and support our long-term goal of becoming the global leader in identifying, developing, and showcasing people’s potential in higher education and workplaces.

As part of our Product team, you will contribute to building a world-class product management function. Leveraging the product management expertise you’ve built, you get to introduce, lead, and implement change, like improvements to how we develop roadmaps and conduct daily scrum ceremonies. You'll help figure out how we can move faster from problem statement to prototype and consistently hit quarterly release targets. Plus, you'll support our ongoing adoption of PDLC to accelerate product time to market so product innovations can be a more significant contributor to revenue growth.

As a Senior Product Manager, your key areas of day-to-day contribution are :

Collaboration & Communication

• Drive cross-functional alignment : Lead collaborative efforts with design, engineering, marketing, and sales teams to ensure a shared understanding of product goals, strategies, and priorities.
• Champion the user : Actively engage with users and key stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and effectively communicate product updates and progress.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies : Expertly guide stand-ups, sprint planning, and backlog grooming sessions to foster a collaborative and efficient development process.
• Translate vision into action : Distill complex product features into clear, concise user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.

Strategy & Planning

Execution & Delivery

To thrive in this role, you :

Selection Process

We review every application. We consider all your professional experiences and how you have applied your skills and knowledge to add value and make an impact. We also look for evidence that you are naturally caring, curious, driven, and resilient in rapidly changing environments.

To ensure a fair process, you will receive equal consideration whether you apply, get introduced as a referral, or directly contact the manager or recruiter for this role.

Applicants who do not live in Canada or have a work permit will automatically be disqualified.

Interview Process

We have designed our interview process to be a two-way discovery and create space for meaningful conversations.

We want to get to know you personally and professionally, understand your career journey and experiences, relevant skills, professional interests and priorities, and assess your alignment with our business needs and what we can offer you.

We also want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision about this opportunity. That’s why we encourage you to stay curious and ask questions every step of the way.

Here are the steps you can expect :

Compensation

Several factors will inform our offer : your unique qualifications, experience, expected contributions and salary needs, market data, budget, and internal pay equity.

The target annual compensation for this role is $120,000 to $140,000 CAD. While this range does not represent the full Senior Individual Contributor salary band, it reflects the budget allocated to fill this position.

Benefits From Day 1

Life & People at Acuity Insights

At Acuity Insights, you’ll be part of a community of over 125 professionals, mostly based in Canada. While we primarily collaborate remotely, our team members connect socially and occasionally co-work in person in our larger people pockets, too.

Human Qualities That Help People Thrive at Acuity

Our team is built on a set of shared values : caring, curious, and driven. We value people who show empathy, listen actively, and act with integrity. We want our team members to be naturally curious and open to exploring new ideas and viewpoints and bring urgency and creativity to problem-solving. Our team thrives on continuous improvement, resilience in the face of changes around us, and self-awareness. Above all, we believe in purposeful work that aligns with our shared values and makes the world a better place.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Belonging

We strive to create a workplace where every person feels respected, valued, and fully supported. Our workplace and supporting policies are designed to foster a culture of belonging, equity, and work-life balance. We embrace the unique strengths and lived experiences each team member brings, recognizing that diversity enriches our environment and drives our success.

We encourage applicants from non-traditional backgrounds or historically marginalized and underrepresented groups to join us.

Thanks for considering Acuity Insights as your next employer!

PS : We’re Taking a Winter Pause!

At Acuity Insights, we value breaks to rest and recharge. That is why hiring activities are on hold now and throughout our Winter Holiday Shutdown from  December 21, 2024, to January 5, 2025.

We are committed to reviewing your application and following up with any potential next steps after we return on January 6.

It might also help to know that our interview process typically takes 3-4 weeks from an initial conversation to a potential offer. Hang tight - and thank you for your patience!