Director of Product - Course Experience (San Diego) Job at Art of Problem Solvin

Director of Product - Course Experience

At AoPS, we are world leaders in teaching advanced mathematics. We train many of the most elite mathematicians in the world, including all members of the US International Math Olympiad team. Despite this impact, AoPS remains relatively unknown to the broader public.

AoPS is unique because it is vertically integrated: it develops its own curriculum, runs its own physical learning centers, employs teachers, and has a robust and capable product, design, and engineering team. Today, our curriculum and academic programs are absolutely worldclass, but our digital experiences are dated. Your job will be to reimagine our digital learning experience, and to push the upper bounds of great teaching and learning.

We are hiring for a Director of Product - Course Experience who will report to the Chief Product Officer and own the digital learning experiences across all our course offeringsfrom classroom technology for inperson and online courses to selfpaced learning platforms and homework systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop new live classroom products used by teachers and students for all AoPS inperson and online course offerings.
• Develop new selfpaced and asynchronous learning experiences that leverage AoPSs worldclass curriculum and recent advances in AI.
• Create radically new learning experiences for pushing the ceiling of great math education, including designs that combine hardware, software, and new AI tools.
• Manage a team of product managers working on different components of the learning journey.
• Foster a demo culture where design ideas are quickly prototyped and tested with real students and teachers.
• Create a culture of storytelling, a deep understanding of customer journeys, and attention to the details of a quality user experience.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, curriculum development, course delivery, customer service and marketing teams to ensure cohesive and highquality execution.

Qualifications

• Hold a high bar for great products, have strong opinions, and can evangelize a great learning experience across the company.
• Have welldeveloped opinions about pedagogy and learning experiences.
• Be excited for the future of AI tutoring, but also know that the best tutors sometimes just wait patiently and say nothing.
• Have experience in highvelocity product teams, and can rally teams to fastpaced and highquality execution.
• Be willing to throw away good ideas in pursuit of great ones.
• Enjoy spending time with students and teachers in classrooms and are excited to make things intuitive and obvious for them.
• Be curious about mathematics and are eager to dive into what makes a truly great learning experience.

Perks & Benefits

This is a fulltime position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. Base salary for this role is 160k190k plus a variable yearend bonus.

• Impact: Opportunity to help more students discover the joy of mathematical problemsolving.
• Culture: Work in an environment of worldclass engineers and designers, who love creating interesting problemsand solving them.
• Creativity: Freedom to experiment, test, and refine products that make both learning and teaching mathematics more engaging.
• Benefits: Competitive compensation package including medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Future Planning: 401(k) with company match.
• Ease of Transition: Relocation assistance available if currently located outside of San Diego.

Additional Information

Background Check: Employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the US. No sponsorship offered (including STEMOPT and H1B).

About AoPS

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the countrys top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, inperson academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, weve expanded our unique problemsolving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.