K-12 ELA Product Strategy Advisor (MVP)
Playpower Labs
Location
Fully Remote
Employment Type
Contract
Location Type
Remote
Department
Product Design
Type: Contract / Part-time (e.g., 5–15 hrs/week)
Duration: 6–12 weeks to start (extendable)
Location: Remote
What you’ll do
You’ll help us shape an MVP for a US K–12 audience by translating deep industry knowledge into practical product decisions. Your focus is: what to build now, what to defer, and why—based on buyer needs, classroom realities, district constraints, and integration/compliance requirements.
Responsibilities
MVP definition & prioritization
Define the MVP scope: must-have vs. nice-to-have vs. not-now.
Produce a prioritized feature list with rationale and tradeoffs.
Customer & market reality checks
Provide a lightweight competitive/alternative analysis (what schools already use; where switching costs are high).
Validation plan
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Create a simple plan to validate the MVP quickly:
Pilot design ideas (what success looks like in a classroom/district)
Metrics to track (activation, weekly active usage by role, teacher retention, outcome proxies)
Qualifications
7+ years in US K–12 EdTech product (product management, product strategy, or equivalent)
Demonstrated ability to define MVP scope and make tradeoffs (not just ideation)
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Strong understanding of how US K–12 actually works:
Stakeholders: teachers, principals, curriculum, district IT, procurement
Adoption realities and classroom workflows
Ability to communicate clearly with founders/engineering and turn insight into actionable decisions
Background across different segments (elementary vs secondary, core instruction vs supplemental)
Experience with district deployments, pilots, or procurement/RFP processes is a plus
How we’ll work together
Weekly working sessions (3-5 hours) + async review of feedback
Fast iteration: propose → critique → decide
You’ll have direct access to the founder/product owner and engineering lead