Principal Product Manager, Data & Integrations

About TalkingPoints

TalkingPoints is an award-winning education technology non-profit organization with the mission to unlock the potential of low-income, underserved families to support their children’s learning by partnering with their children’s schools. We’re building a one-of-a-kind product in the market, a multilingual family engagement platform that connects families and teachers using human and artificial intelligence powered, two-way translated messages and personalized supports — eliminating language, time limitations, and know-how as barriers to school/family connection.

Millions of teachers and families are using TalkingPoints in their classrooms, schools and districts across the U.S. TalkingPoints works with key school district partners such as Seattle Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Buffalo Public School, Wake County and NYC DOE. We have won awards from NYU, MIT, Google, Forbes and are backed by Google, Eric Schmidt, AT&T, Cisco, and Stanford University to name a few.

TalkingPoints is at a critical inflection point in the organization's growth. We continue to see exponential growth in both our user base and our own internal structure.  It's an important time to join our team and build on our momentum and ability to support students and families during this critical time in which education equity gaps are more concerning than ever. Learn more.

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The opportunity

It’s an exciting time to join the Product team at TalkingPoints. Data is foundational to our product, our customers, and how we operate as a company. We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager, Data & Integrations to own data use cases and workflows end to end, and to lead our data and integrations roadmap.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll set direction, lead cross-functional work, and stay close to execution—making smart tradeoffs, writing clear requirements, and using strong analytical judgment. You bring deep expertise in US K–12 education data and integrations, and ensure our data reliably serves the product, internal teams, and partners.

You will:

Set the data roadmap

• Own and execute the data and integrations roadmap aligned to product strategy
• Define and prioritize core data use cases: product functionality, impact measurement, and organizational success
• Anticipate scale, performance, and cost implications of data systems

Build and operate reliable data products

• Define data requirements across internal teams, districts, and partners, turning needs into clear product direction
• Partner with engineering, product, and research to deliver high-quality data solutions and integrations
• Bring deep expertise in K–12 district data (SIS, LMS, student outcomes) and represent the perspective of district IT administrators

Ensure data quality, governance, and scale

• Own data quality and sources of truth across data domains
• Define KPIs and SLAs for data health, reliability, and performance
• Establish governance, shared definitions, documentation, and processes that ensure reliability at scale

Enable measurement and insight

• Own core organizational metrics and ensure teams have access to decision-ready data
• Analyze usage, funnels, and outcomes to identify opportunities and measure impact
• Increase data literacy and alignment around success metrics across the organization

Leverage AI and analytics

• Use AI to analyze data, build tools that enable others to do the same, and support AI/ML use cases in the product
• Promote fast feedback loops and metrics-driven decision-making

Lead through clarity and prioritization

• Ruthlessly prioritize to focus on the highest-impact work
• Communicate roadmaps, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders, including executive leadership and partners
  

Who you are

You have 6+ years of experience building and/or managing products in US K–12 education, with deep experience in data and integrations. You bring strong experience with:

• Complex technical and data architectures
• Product development processes and methodologies
• Product analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Sigma)
• Data modeling, relational databases, and core data concepts
• Product management tools (e.g., Jira, ProductPlan)
• Using AI to improve efficiency and build data-driven solutions
• Presenting and defending product strategy and roadmaps
• Making data-driven decisions—and enabling others to do the same
  

You are/have

• Action-oriented and comfortable owning outcomes
• Highly collaborative and cross-functional
• Curious, analytical, and motivated by hard problems
• Organized and able to manage complexity
• Clear and confident in written and verbal communication
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats in a fast-moving environment
  

The base range for this role is $155,000 - $185,000. The actual base compensation may vary depending on factors such as experience, location, market conditions, education/training, and skill level, and does not include bonuses, other forms of compensation, or benefits.

Overall fit with our org culture - we look for team members who are:

• User and mission-oriented: we are devoted to our mission with empathy towards the communities we serve.
• All-in together: we go above and beyond the job description, working together as a team.
• Agile & action-oriented: we get things done, knowing that our progress is urgent to our communities.
• Always Learning: we are always learning, with a growth mindset, to reach our full potential.
• Boldly Courageous: we take risks in order to achieve big things.
• Resourceful: We are creative, solution-oriented, and scrappy
  

What We Offer

• An incredible opportunity to build a mission-driven, rapidly growing startup tech nonprofit
• Competitive salary, health insurance, benefits, and flexible time off 
• 401K match
• Annual professional development benefit
• Flexibility to work remotely
• Fun, smart, dynamic, motivated team focused on working together to transform family engagement to serve the families who need it most

How to Apply

Please submit your resume, a brief paragraph describing your interest, and a link to your LinkedIn profile

TalkingPoints is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all qualified individuals have an equal opportunity to contribute and succeed. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.