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NERDY

Principal Product Manager (AI-Native)

NERDY, Dallas

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Overview of the role:
Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is transforming how students learn-combining AI and live instruction across 3,000+ subjects. With 5M learners served through school partnerships and tens of thousands of families enrolled in Learning Memberships, we're scaling fast-and retention is the frontier.
We are looking for an AI-native product manager to enhance engagement on our Live+AI learning platform. This is a high-impact opportunity to lead product strategy and execution using personalized AI-powered experiences, data-driven insights, and multi-channel engagement to increase activation, satisfaction, and long-term growth.
About Nerdy:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.
We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.
Fortune favors the bold. Join us.
How we compete:
  • AI-Native at every level From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
  • Entrepreneurial velocity Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
  • Free-market rigor Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
  • Full-stack ownership You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
  • Reward for contribution Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
  • Relentless exploration Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
  • Is Apolitical You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.
If you're a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.
Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:
  • Q1-2025 Shareholder Letter
  • Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter
  • Q3-2024 Shareholder Letter
Qualifications:
  • Have 8+ years in product or growth roles, ideally in B2C SaaS, consumer tech, or subscription-based platforms.
  • Are fluent in lifecycle thinking and activation/retention mechanics.
  • Have worked closely with ML, marketing automation, or recommender systems.
  • Love turning complex data into human-centered nudges that feel effortless to the user.
  • Can write a clear one-pager, critique a message funnel, and wireframe a personalized dashboard-all in the same day.
  • Have experience with tools like Iterable, Amplitude, Segment, Looker, dbt, and basic SQL.
  • Experienced with AI-native tools that enhance productivity and speed (Cursor, Make.com, Supabase, Netlify, Claude Code, n8n, Firecrawl, ChatGPT, Grok, Bolt, Vercel, etc).
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a critical user segment's experience, owning every touchpoint across their journey.
  • Own and scale Nerdy's cross-platform experience-from onboarding through active use and seasonal drop-offs.
  • Map learning intents and cohorts from tutoring transcripts, product telemetry, and CRM behaviors; use these signals to trigger intelligent outreach.
  • Use GenAI tools (Claude, GPT-4, internal LLMs) to create high-variance personalized content at scale.
  • Orchestrate multi-channel engagement: in-app, email, SMS, push, web-balancing impact, timing, and cognitive load.
  • Build and iterate A/B experiments across every touchpoint modality-shipping, learning, and systematizing what works.
  • Partner with Engineering, Customer Retention, and Data Science to scale a durable, personalized retention engine.
  • Set measurable targets, own dashboards, and track leading indicators.
  • Constantly explore new AI tools, pilots, and workflows to increase speed and surface precision.
  • Craft clear, action-oriented communications to inform, engage, and retain the user community.
Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:
At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:
  • Competitive Compensation & Advancement: Market-leading salary paired with clear promotion pathways and equity (RSUs) - become an owner in our success.
  • Retirement Made Simple: 401(k) plan with company match and immediate vesting.
  • A Remote-First Culture: We embrace flexibility across time zones and working styles to attract top talent and meet learners where they are.
  • Flexible Time Off: Recharge on your terms, ensuring maximum productivity.
  • Continuous Learning: Access an all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household, including 1:1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and our full suite of learning products and services.
  • Supercharge with AI: Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate your workflow.
  • You're Covered: Medical, dental, vision, life, STD & LTD plans plus strong maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves - numerous options for you and your family.

The Bottom Line:
If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what's next, you'll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn't a traditional corporate environment - it's a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.