Principal Product Manager

Nerdy is seeking an experienced, data-driven Principal Product Manager to lead initiatives focused on enhancing the tutor experience within our online learning marketplace. We’re seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager with a robust background in marketplace dynamics who can tackle a wide range of opportunities and challenges in our product ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of solving ambiguous problems with a user-centric mindset, leveraging data and experimentation to drive impactful outcomes, and collaborating across teams—engineering, data science, operations, design, marketing, and sales—to enhance platform performance, drive user engagement, and deliver impactful business results. Successful Principal Product Managers have a keen technical acumen, thrive on analyzing marketplace behaviors, possess a strategic mindset, and are skilled communicators who can envision the future and lead cross-functional teams to execute with excellence.

The Principal Product Manager must have a strong data orientation and marketplace insight, ready to dive deep into data and act decisively to iterate and improve our products. This role requires balancing a bias for action with strategic foresight, ensuring that decisions advance our marketplace goals. A core responsibility of the Principal Product Manager is evaluating high-impact opportunities, determining alignment with our strategic objectives, articulating compelling cases for action, and rigorously driving progress. Using data analytics and customer insights, Principal Product Managers at Nerdy apply a scientific approach to product development: observation - question - hypothesis and prediction - test - measure - learn - iterate.

About Nerdy:

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, and adaptive self-study. Their proprietary platform leverages AI to personalize the experience for Learners of all ages —from kindergarten to professional—in academic, test prep, enrichment, and certification subjects. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain the product and strategy and are the most effective way to learn about what the company is building.

• Q1-2024 Shareholder Letter
• Q4-2023 Shareholder Letter
• Q3-2023 Shareholder Letter

 

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of initiatives aimed at enhancing the tutor experience in our marketplace. 
• Use data, both qualitative and quantitative, to understand marketplace dynamics and customer needs deeply.
• Drive product vision, strategy, technical requirements, and ensure timely delivery aligned with business goals.
• Build and prioritize roadmaps and requirements to address key tutor experience challenges and opportunities, from MVPs to full-scale solutions.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, data science, design, marketing, sales, operations, and executive teams to test, measure, and drive results.
• Drive feature or product adoption, with a particular focus on optimizing marketplace interactions and engagement.
• Operate autonomously against business and team objectives, readily rolling up sleeves to address challenges.
• Set targets proactively, define and track success metrics aligned with business objectives, and adjust based on evolving insights.
• Lead periodic business reviews with stakeholders and executive leadership to assess and communicate progress.
• Evaluate marketplace expansion opportunities, whether through new features, partnerships, or acquisitions, and propose paths to enhance platform capabilities.
• Conduct competitive marketplace research and analysis.
• Represent and advocate for marketplace participants' needs and identify emerging trends, effectively communicating these insights to align stakeholders.
• Partner with design to create high-performance, conversion-oriented marketplace UX that enhances user outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product and/or business leadership experience, specifically focused on marketplace platforms or similar technical products.
• Superior analytical and quantitative skills, with a proven track record of using data and metrics to test hypotheses, confirm assumptions, and measure success in a marketplace setting.
• Self-starter with a strong bias for action, able to drive results in a fast-paced, technical environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in translating complex marketplace insights.
• Comfortable managing multiple competing priorities and navigating ambiguity in a high-speed environment.
• Proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous technical problems with high attention to detail.
• Excellent collaboration skills that build trust across all levels and functions.
• Management experience is a plus.
• Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.

Varsity Tutors Leadership Principles

Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot

Benefits:

• Total Compensation Package including Competitive Salary and Equity (Restricted Stock Units) in the company
• Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401k Company Matching Plan
• Maternity, Paternal, and Adoption Leave
• Remote Position
• Flexible PTO
• Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)
• Unique opportunity to help transform how the world learns!

Nerdy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.