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WeSchool is the leading Italian EdTech Company. We are on a mission to ensure learning never stops, our goal is to empower educators and learners, and encourage them to innovate learning by making it more inclusive, collaborative and engaging.

We are looking for a Head of Product that brings enthusiasm and passion for education issues and creativity to challenge the impossible. This role is hands on, sleeves rolled up and deep into thinking, doing, and leading. 

As a Head of Product you will have three main goals:

• Set vision: you will work with our colleagues and clients to build an innovative EdTech product vision for our platform that enables our mission and changes how people learn and teach.
• Build together: Together with your team and in collaboration with the engineering team you will execute the product vision. This will involve delivering a roadmap which balances strategic feature development with long term technical and operational security and scalability.
• Develop the best talent: you will lead a small team with your objective being to educate, evangelize and advocate for the customer needs across the Product Delivery lifecycle.

• Gain a deep understanding of learning challenges, collaboration tools and user requirements, in order to identify opportunities and present visionary innovations for the product.
• Define the product strategy by building the short and long term roadmap in line with company OKRs, and use KPIs in order to measure the product success.
• Lead strategic market research and competence analysis in order to make data-informed decisions.
• Identify the user personas by analyzing activity data, product analytics and conducting user research. 
• Define and describe straightforward user flows and communicate the product requirements to designers and developers, using coherent and clear language.
• Collaborate with the designers to create a simple, sleek and beautiful user interface.
• Be involved in the development process with the Engineering team, to ensure deliverables match requirements and objectives.
• Interact with different stakeholders at Company and Customer level, providing information adapted to their interests and transferring user-centric approach to every aspect of Product Delivery.
• Implement Product Development Lifecycle management, following an agile approach.
• Handle and manage WeSchool's product budget, performing budget control and risk management duties.
• Lead the Product Management team

• 5+ years in successful development of consumer-facing digital products, handling the E2E lifecycle and managing stakeholders at different levels. 
• At least 2 years in people leadership and management.
• Experience in digital business and Agile environments.
• Digital Product Web development lifecycle + App, considering all aspects from development to design and user experience.
• OKR definition and data analysis abilities, being able to identify trends and opportunities, as well as to analyze performance in different product stages.
• Tools knowledge: Jira, Asana (or other PM), Figma, Google Analytics, Mixpanel (or other product analytics), social listening tools. 
• Good project management skills, where you thrive on being in the middle of a cross-functional team, coordinating the roadmap and getting results.
• English fluency is a must, you will work with teams across multiple countries.
• Budget management.

• Experience in SaaS product companies and/or Educational or EdTech Sector / LMS.
• Experience in building ecommerce or marketplace products.
• Experience in building global products or driving localization of products.
• Tools: Hubstpot, Netsuite, Github, Zappier, Chargebee, Ahrefs, Semrush, Sistrix, Hotjar, Usertesting.

• Critical thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, making complex ideas understandable to multiple audiences.
• Leadership and people management; remote team management experience is a plus.
• An analytical mindset with high attention to detail.
• Time management and planning abilities.
• Strategic vision.
• Customer-oriented mindset.

• Remote work or hybrid at the office (Milan HQ), you choose.
• Flexible schedule.
• A diverse, inclusive, and multicultural working environment.
• +30 days of paid leave (including bank holidays).
• The tech and tools you need to deliver your best work.
• A learning environment where you can build upon your skills and interests, we support you with an annual personal development budget (up to 1200€/year).
• Flat structure where your voice can be heard, welcomed, and appreciated at all levels in the organization.

• 40-minute cognitive contact with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners.
• A first technical interview with a Product team-member.
• A case study to debrief.
• Two 60-minute interviews with some of our team leads, discussing product, business and vision aspects of the company.