Panorama Education

Panorama Education

Lead Product Manager, Platform

United States

Sponsorship not specified$176k-$259kDetected 69 days ago
AWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringComplianceProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementCompensationLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will serve as the senior platform voice across product, engineering, SRE, data, and security.
  • Translate business strategy into platform architecture decisions that hold up over years, not quarters.
  • Organizational Enablement Serve as the connective tissue between platform and product teams, ensuring shared infrastructure accelerates rather than constrains.

Responsibilities

  • The Lead Product Manager for Platform will define and drive the strategic direction of the foundational capabilities that power Panorama's products.
  • The right person will be energized by the autonomy this brings while knowing collaborative support is available across the broader team.
  • You'll own the platform strategy end-to-end, setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring platform investments compound over time into a durable competitive advantage.
  • Drive alignment across engineering and product leadership on platform priorities, sequencing, and investment levels.
  • Establish the standards and patterns that other teams build on, raising the bar for quality, consistency, and velocity across the board.
  • Drive alignment on complex, multi-team initiatives where priorities and tradeoffs cut across organizational boundaries.
  • Manage competing pressures between engineer-identified improvements, business-driven priorities, and reactive demands.
  • Build shared discipline around scope so the team moves with focus rather than accumulating open-ended work.
  • Security, Trust, and Governance Partner with security and legal leadership to shape how platform capabilities support Panorama's security, privacy, and compliance obligations at a strategic level.
  • Executive and Stakeholder Communication Own how platform strategy is communicated to senior leadership and the broader organization.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product management experience, with significant depth in platform, infrastructure, or developer experience in a technology-driven organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to define project completion criteria, resist scope creep in technically-driven environments, and close work decisively.
  • Experience managing backlogs where engineers are enthusiastic contributors to scope, and knowing how to channel that energy without letting it run indefinitely.
  • Experience leading product work that intersects with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, GDPR, and FERPA, with a strong command of data protection and privacy best practices.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, including services such as EKS, RDS, S3 and IAM is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes for container orchestration is a significant plus.
  • Previous experience as a software engineer is strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Strong Analytical
  • Experience with monitoring and observability at scale is a plus.
  • Why Panorama?

Compensation

  • $176k-$259k

Benefits

  • Salary Range $ 176,065.00 - $258,919.00 Competitive salary and benefits (including equity, health, dental & vision, retirement contribution, parental leave, and mental health & wellness support).
  • Join us and help shape what education looks like for the next generation.
  • This role is responsible for setting a long-term platform vision, not just managing a roadmap, and for influencing how the entire engineering organization builds, scales, and delivers on that foundation.
  • Remote-first culture: Panoramians can work anywhere in the continental U.S. Mission-driven colleagues who care deeply about making education more equitable and sustainable.
  • Remote About Panorama Panorama Education is a technology company building the leading platform for student insight and action in K-12.

Company info

  • Panoramians can work anywhere in the continental U.S. Mission-driven colleagues who care deeply about making education more equitable and sustainable.
  • You'll lead through influence across the organization, partnering with Staff engineers, product leaders, and leaders across the company to shape decisions that touch every team building on Panorama's platform.
  • Represent the platform perspective in executive conversations and company-level planning.

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