Product Lead - Progress

About Stellic

We’re building a future where every student can move through their education with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform transforms the student experience, giving them the tools they need to make the right decisions about their degree plans, track their journey, and build an education and career path that’s truly worth it.

Stellic is a fast-growing startup backed by leading social impact investors, partnering with top institutions like Cornell, Columbia, UVA, and Ohio State to support over 1 million students across 7 countries. As we scale to serve more universities worldwide, we remain deeply committed to this mission, driven by our values, and committed to building a high-performance team that’s here to make a lasting difference on both students’ lives and higher education.

About the Role

We need an expert in managing complex technical products while seamlessly collaborating across engineering, design, and university partners. As a Senior/Principal Product Manager - Progress, you’ll be responsible for the core aspects of Stellic’s platform: enabling universities to define program requirements (e.g., BS Computer Science) and evaluating student progress against them. Everything in Stellic builds off of an accurate representation of a student’s progress. As a result, this role comes with a strong sense of responsibility and impact.

If you love diving deep into solving challenging technical problems, and working closely with both engineers and external stakeholders, to build a foundation of the servicing that is changing how higher-ed operates, this role is for you.

In this role, you’ll:

• Own and Shape the Progress Product: Deeply understand how universities define academic requirements and ensure our system evaluates student progress accurately and efficiently.
• Lead Problem Solving: Take long-term, complex challenges and break them down into actionable, iterative steps to deliver immediate value.
• Drive Technical Collaboration: Engage with engineers (in US and Pakistan) to discuss trade-offs, system architecture, and product decisions.
• Engage with University Partners: Join calls to do product discovery to understand the underlying need, articulate product decisions, and build trust with institutions as they transition to Stellic.
• Identify Patterns: Recognize commonalities across institutions and design scalable solutions that can serve multiple customers.
• Think Big-Picture: Ensure each feature you build contributes meaningfully to our broader product strategy and Stellic’s long-term vision.

You'd be a great fit for this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience as a product manager with demonstrable growth through the years
• Are experienced in building enterprise SaaS product preferably in a fast-paced, scrappy startup environment or early product development in an established company
• You have a relentlessly driven to build products that set new standards of excellence, going beyond 'good enough' to deliver something truly exceptional
• Love getting into the details of complex logic, systems, and algorithms to understand how and why something works
• Have a technical mindset—you don’t need to write code, but you should be comfortable in engineering discussions and grasp complex technical concepts
• Are a problem solver who thrives in ambiguity, taking abstract problems and breaking them down into structured, actionable solutions.
• Are analytical and resourceful, able to use tools to manipulate data, identify patterns, seek insights without depending on engineering.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to articulate complex product decisions clearly to university partners and internal teams.
• Are comfortable working in a hybrid setup and coordinating across different time zones.

Why Join

• Be part of a customer-centric team that is addressing the core issues in higher education via an expandable platform that is overwhelming loved by students and valued by administrators
• The opportunity to join at the ground level of a promising and developing organization, and build/lead a team critically responsible for its growth
• Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS
• Be part of a culture where ownership, new ideas, and creativity is celebrated
• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
• Flexible, outcome-based culture
• Comprehensive health insurance, with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents on our base plan
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

Compensation: $170K - $220K base salary, plus equity

Work location: Candidates must be willing to work in-office in San Mateo 3 days per week as part of our hybrid work culture.

Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.