Product Manager for Observational Assessment

JOB DESCRIPTION

COMPANY OVERVIEW

At Frog Street, we believe every child deserves to grow up in a more joyful and kinder world. By empowering early education teachers and their learning communities to save time, teach with confidence, and create caring classrooms of all shapes and sizes, we help support an environment where both teachers and children can feel safe, seen, and thrive. With play-based learning, innovative tools, expert curriculum, professional development, and actionable insights, educators can foster meaningful learning that shapes the confident, kind, and curious grown-ups of the future.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Early Childhood Observational Assessment Product Manager to lead the development and commercialization of a cutting-edge early childhood observational assessment platform. This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise, early childhood education knowledge, and business acumen to ensure our product meets the needs of educators, administrators, and families while seamlessly integrating into existing classroom workflows.

The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between our early childhood education (ECE) assessment experts, external research organizations, classroom educators and our technical team, translating teacher needs into functional product features. They will be responsible for overseeing the product lifecycle, from development to market launch, ensuring a user-friendly and impactful solution for the early childhood education sector.

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the end-to-end ECE assessment solution development and integration process, from concept to commercialization, ensuring alignment with educational best practices, user & market needs.
• Act as a liaison between end-users (educators, administrators), ECE assessment experts, and the technical team to translate classroom assessment workflows, requirements into intuitive digital experiences.
• Collaborate with Digital Product team (including engineering, design, and UX teams) to develop features that simplify observational assessment input and reporting.
• Work with the product strategy team to define and prioritize the assessment development roadmap, balancing user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
• Conduct market research and user feedback to validate product concepts and optimize user experience.
• Ensure assessment data is presented in clear, actionable reports that support decision-making for teachers, administrators, and families.
• Work closely with product strategy, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to develop go-to-market strategies, state submissions, training materials, and product positioning for the assessment solution.

Monitor product performance and iterate based on user feedback and analytics.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Education, Educational Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in EdTech product management, preferably in early childhood education space.
• Strong understanding of early childhood observational assessment practices and reporting needs.
• Technical acumen to effectively communicate with engineering teams and translate user needs into high-level technical requirements
• Experience working with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly digital experiences.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a user-centered mindset.
• Passion for improving early childhood education through innovative technology solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience as an ECE educator or administrator or educational research.
• Familiarity with assessment frameworks such as Teaching Strategies GOLD, CLASS, AEPS, DRDP, and COR Advantage, as well as screening tools like ASQ-3, ASQ:SE-2, and BDI-3.
• Experience in SaaS product development for the education sector.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations and compliance in EdTech.

ABOUT FROG STREET

Frog Street (www.frogstreet.com), a subsidiary of Excelligence Learning Corporation, is a leading provider of comprehensive early childhood education solutions to public schools, Head Start programs and early childcare centers, with a focus on children from birth to age 5. Frog Street's curriculum programs are based on early brain research and provide intentional age-appropriate instruction that is aligned to both federal and state standards. The Company also develops engaging and interactive professional development programs, including product training, conferences, continuing education, and quality assessment tools to measure students' progress.

ABOUT EXCELLIGENCE

Excelligence Learning Corporation (www.excelligence.com) is a leading developer, manufacturer, distributor and multi-channel retailer of over 20,000 innovative, high-quality and grade-appropriate educational products and teaching solutions, which are sold primarily to early childhood learning centers, elementary schools, PTAs and consumers. The company has three core divisions: Supplies (Discount School Supply and Really Good Stuff), Equipment (Children's Factory, Angeles and Steffy Wood Products) and Services (Educational Products, Inc., Childcare Education Institute and Frog Street).