Head of Product

hace 2 semanas


Colombia Slang A tiempo completo
We're looking for talented individuals interested in joining a growing global company. At Slang, you'll be an early team member of a global, well-funded startup spun out from MIT. We're building a world-class team to revolutionize language learning with cutting-edge technology and delightful design.

What we're working on at Slang


Slang started at MIT as a research project on using AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible.

Our technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers an unprecedented variety of specialized English courses and proficiency tests for career development in over one hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law.

With just a small team, we've already created the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, we're scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.

What this role is about

We are looking for an exceptional Head of Product to lead our product strategy, vision, and execution.

You will drive the development of our product roadmap, lead our product team, and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our products exceed customer expectations and align with our company's mission and goals.

You're passionate about how our product is used and how it delivers learning outcomes, working closely with our clients, and aligning our product to solve pressing needs as we continue improving our PMF.

If you're a visionary product leader with a passion for Ed-Tech and a track record of success, we want to hear from you

Key Responsibilities

Departmental leadership:

  • As part of the senior leadership team, contribute to defining the company's strategy by identifying market trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage. Articulate a compelling product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the company.
  • Crossfunctional collaboration: Drive alignment across the broader organization (engineering, design, analytics). Be a trusted partner who communicates well with commercial stakeholders (marketing, sales, customer success).
  • People management: Mentor and develop a highperforming product team by fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment that promotes individual growth and team success.

Product development:

  • Guide product managers in planning, prioritizing and executing the product roadmap.
  • Oversee the full product development lifecycle, from discovery to launch. Establish processes to ensure highquality and timely delivery.

Product culture:

  • Champion a customerfirst mindset throughout the organization. Cultivate strong client relationships and own the vision and processes for enduser research and feedback loops.
  • Foster a culture of craftsmanship, challenge the status quo, continuous improvement, and agile development.
  • Promote an experimentation mindset by coaching product managers and analysts in datadriven decisionmaking.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or related fields.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in successfully launching software products as a Product Manager, who can also demonstrate strong managerial and leadership abilities to mentor and lead our product team.
  • Comfort with growth and retention metrics, excel in data proficiency, exhibit leadership in data management, and demonstrate a strong grasp of statistics fundamentals and analytical skills.
  • Strong written and spoken communication skills to represent the product organization within Slang and with Customers. You'll need to work crossfunctionally as well as crossculturally we're an internationally distributed team
  • English proficiency (C1 or higher).
  • Experience working with technical product teams and knowledge of developing software products.
  • Experience leading crossfunctional teams to develop and execute against a roadmap and deliver measurable impact.
  • Selfdirected with a willingness to get your hands dirty. We expect you to roll your sleeves with your team members and be an individual contributor when necessary.
  • A plus: Master's degree in data analytics, engineering, business, or another relevant field.
  • A plus: A desire to improve access to education through technology. Personal interest in language learning and/or experience working on edtech or humanenablement products.
  • A plus: Proficiency in SQL or coding.
  • A plus: Experience working with SaaS products.
What Slang can offer you

Our compensation package includes a competitive salary and excellent benefits (details vary by country).


Most importantly, we offer the special experience of being part of a fast-moving and quickly-growing international company within the entrepreneurial ecosystems of Boston and MIT.

Where we're located

Our team is currently split between the United States and LATAM. We are recruiting great people in these locations and all around the world.

Interested?

Slang is an equal opportunity employer. W
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