Great Minds is hiring: Senior Director, IT Product Product Management and Engine

Senior Director, IT Product Product Management and Engineering

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging contentand all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of todays classrooms.

What We Build

Our products Eureka Math , Eureka Math , Wit & Wisdom , PhD Science , Geodes , and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.
• Wit & Wisdom and Arts & Letters ELA anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.
• PhD Science is a handson K5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

Where Were Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customerinformed experiences across the full educator journeyfrom curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our longterm vision is to become a true partner in impactnot just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

The Senior Director, IT Product Product Management and Engineering is responsible for the portfolio of enterprise applications that fuel our organization (e.g., CRM, ERP, finance, and supply chain platforms). You will apply business acumen and strategic problemsolving skills to define and execute the enterprise application strategy, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and drives measurable outcomes.

In this role, you will thrive in a collaborative environment that values your insights, encourages new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation. You will work crossfunctionally with business and technology leaders to shape an integrated, futureready enterprise application landscape that supports the organizations diverse needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, planning, and governance of enterprise applications to align with the organizations longterm business goals.
• Build, manage, and own outcomes for the multiyear roadmap of strategic systems initiatives for enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Develop and continuously evolve application strategies to drive growth, profitability, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation in response to industry trends, emerging solutions, and evolving business needs.
• Establish, maintain, and communicate the enterprise application roadmap; partner with business units to prioritize initiatives, secure resources, and remove obstacles.
• Drive endtoend delivery of enterprise application initiatives, including change management across people, processes, and technology.
• Oversee multiple concurrent projects and programs, ensuring they are executed on time, within scope, and with clear, measurable business impact.
• Collaborate closely with functional owners, technology teams, and product leaders to influence architecture decisions and deliver secure, scalable, and intelligent solutions to address critical business challenges.
• Set clear performance metrics (e.g., adoption, satisfaction, stability, ROI) for enterprise applications and regularly report on progress and outcomes to executive stakeholders.
• Lead, coach and develop a highperforming team responsible for enterprise applications, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with IT Business Operations, Security, and Finance on vendor selection, contract negotiations, licensing optimization, and risk management for enterprise application providers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience managing or owning enterprise applications in a complex business environment.
• 5+ years of proven experience leading teams responsible for enterprise application portfolios (e.g., CRM, ERP, finance, or supply chain systems) in a mid to largescale organization.
• Strong strategic and analytical problemsolving abilities, with a track record of designing and executing application strategies that deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, secure alignment across diverse teams, and drive executivelevel decisions.
• Expertise in enterprise application governance, including standards and lifecycle management, and ensuring solutions are resilient, scalable, secure, and aligned with business needs.
• Preferred: experience working within companies with complex supply chain needs.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting in executive forums and producing clear, compelling strategic recommendations and reports.

Required Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Location

• Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $199,000$209,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com . If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact security@greatminds.org

Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organizations commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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