What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director of Product - Customer Experience position at Art of Problem Solving?
At AoPS, we are world leaders in teaching advanced mathematics. We train many of the most elite mathematicians in the world, including all members of the US International Math Olympiad team. Despite this impact, AoPS remains relatively unknown to the broader public.
AoPS is unique because it is vertically integrated: it develops its own curriculum, runs its own physical learning centers, employs teachers, and has a robust and capable product, design, and engineering team. Today, our curriculum and academic programs are absolutely world-class, but our digital experiences are dated. Your job will be to reimagine the customer journey from hearing about AoPS to becoming a satisfied customer. You will oversee all customer-facing digital experiences, including the marketing, enrollment, ecommerce, and parent experiences.
We are hiring for two Senior Director of Product roles. One will be in charge of Learner Experience, the other in charge of Customer Experience. They will work closely with each other and the Chief Product Officer in standing up a new Product Management department of the company and recruiting and managing a team of great product managers.
The Senior Director of Product - Customer Experience will be:
This is a full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The base salary for this role is 180k - 210k. Compensation includes a performance-based bonus.
Some Benefits Of The Position Include
About AoPS
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.
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AoPS is unique because it is vertically integrated: it develops its own curriculum, runs its own physical learning centers, employs teachers, and has a robust and capable product, design, and engineering team. Today, our curriculum and academic programs are absolutely world-class, but our digital experiences are dated. Your job will be to reimagine the customer journey from hearing about AoPS to becoming a satisfied customer. You will oversee all customer-facing digital experiences, including the marketing, enrollment, ecommerce, and parent experiences.
We are hiring for two Senior Director of Product roles. One will be in charge of Learner Experience, the other in charge of Customer Experience. They will work closely with each other and the Chief Product Officer in standing up a new Product Management department of the company and recruiting and managing a team of great product managers.
The Senior Director of Product - Customer Experience will be:
- Helping lead a major brand refresh project to build an iconic, nationally renowned educational brand
- Building a new website that shows the best of what AoPS has to offer – its community of motivated learners, its high-quality curriculum and excellent teachers
- Crafting, measuring, and iterating a new enrollment and commerce flow that explains and sells our digital and in-person course offerings
- Building a new parent-facing portal to give customers a clear view of their student’s progress
- Fostering a "demo culture" where design ideas are quickly prototyped and tested with real students and teachers
- Managing a team of product managers working on different components of the customer journey
- Creating a culture of storytelling, a deep understanding of customer journeys, and attention to the details of a quality user experience
- Collaborating with engineering, design, curriculum development, course delivery, customer service and marketing teams to ensure cohesive and high-quality execution
- You hold a high bar for great products, have strong opinions, and can evangelize great customer experience the company
- You have built high-scale ecommerce systems, especially those with a white-glove service experience
- You have experience in high-velocity product teams, and can rally teams to fast-paced and high-quality execution
- You are an experienced manager who has built the loyalty and respect of your teams
- You're willing to throw away good ideas in pursuit of great ones
- You're curious about mathematics and are eager to dive into what makes a truly great learning experience
This is a full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The base salary for this role is 180k - 210k. Compensation includes a performance-based bonus.
Some Benefits Of The Position Include
- Impact: The opportunity to help more students discover the joy of mathematical problem-solving
- Culture: Work in an environment of world-class engineers and designers, who love creating interesting problems…and solving them
- Creativity: Freedom to experiment, test, and refine products that make both learning and teaching mathematics more engaging
- Benefits: Competitive compensation package including medical, dental, and vision plans
- Future Planning: 401K with company match
- Ease of Transition: This can be your era of sunshine, palm trees, and beaches. Relocation assistance is available if currently located outside of San Diego
About AoPS
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.
By clicking submit application you agree that we may contact you regarding your application via email, phone or SMS and to the terms of our data privacy policy.
