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Founded in July 2020, SkillUp Coalition is an innovative nonprofit connecting more than 5 million individuals skilled through alternative routes (STARs) with the right tools, resources, and support to make confident career shifts, find quality living-wage jobs, and achieve promising career growth without the need of a college degree. Through its cutting-edge technology platform and step-by-step career guidance options, SkillUp has connected STARs with career, training, and job support nationwide. The coalition brings together more than 170 leading organizations, including training and education providers, technology developers, policymakers, employers, and philanthropies. SkillUp is a remote-first organization rooted deeply in our values to Champion Worker-First, Empower Impact, Embrace Collaboration, Exemplify Curiosity, and Embody Accountability. By 2030, we plan to serve 10 million users and help more than 1 million workers and learners attain quality employment.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and execute the long-term product vision to position SkillUp as the leading career navigation platform for non-degree workers.
• Lead the strategy and prioritization of SkillUp's product portfolio—including content, career resources, wraparound supports, and partner experiences—ensuring every investment advances equitable economic mobility.
• Lead product strategy for integrating agentic AI capabilities into the platform to enhance personalization, curation, and user guidance while maintaining human-centered experiences and responsible AI practices.
• Build and lead a high-performing product organization, including hiring, coaching, and developing product management talent grounded in user research, customer insights, and data-informed decision making.
• Develop and cultivate a product-centered culture across the organization, helping teams make decisions grounded in user needs, evidence, measurable outcomes, and continuous learning.
• Establish frameworks for evaluating product performance, ROI, and social impact to inform product strategy, organizational learning, and funder engagement.
• Serve as the primary cross-functional leader for product, aligning Engineering, Partnerships, Growth, Marketing, Data & Analytics, and Operations around product priorities, delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes.

Product Development & Execution

• Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle—from concept and discovery through launch, iteration, and continuous improvement—anchored in user research, data insights, and measurable outcomes.
• Own and communicate a product roadmap that balances user impact, organizational priorities, technical feasibility, and long-term platform sustainability in partnership with Engineering.
• Facilitate cross-functional prioritization and establish clear product decision-making frameworks that align stakeholders around priorities, trade-offs, and investment decisions.
• Ensure high-quality, timely delivery of product initiatives by fostering strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams.

AI & User Outcomes

• Define the product strategy for AI-enabled experiences, ensuring AI capabilities solve meaningful user problems and advance SkillUp's mission.
• Partner with Engineering and AI leaders to establish guardrails, evaluation frameworks, transparency standards, and responsible AI practices across the product portfolio.
• Define product success metrics and partner across teams to ensure data systems capture, interpret, and report meaningful worker outcomes that inform continuous product improvement.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner with SkillUp's executive team, fundraising, and partnerships leaders to align product strategy with organizational priorities, philanthropic investments, and long-term growth.
• Drive collaboration with external partners, workforce organizations, employers, and funders to co-create solutions that respond to market needs and expand SkillUp's impact.
• Represent SkillUp externally as a thought leader in product strategy, responsible AI, career navigation, and workforce innovation.

Qualifications 

• 10+ years of experience in product management, product leadership, or related disciplines, including experience building and scaling digital products. Experience in workforce development, education technology, healthcare navigation, or other social impact sectors preferred.
• Proven track record leading Product and Design organizations and partnering effectively with Engineering teams to deliver impactful technology solutions.
• Knowledge of and deep curiosity about AI and machine learning systems, including experience shaping AI-enabled product strategies and collaborating with technical experts to deliver responsible AI experiences.
• Working knowledge of AI concepts sufficient to evaluate opportunities, understand trade-offs, and inform product strategy.
• Strong understanding of product management, human-centered design, user research methodologies, experimentation, and data-informed decision making.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and translate complex concepts into actionable product decisions.
• Experience building products that serve diverse or historically underserved populations.
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with disciplined execution in ambiguous environments.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills with experience influencing across functions without direct authority.
• Commitment to SkillUp's mission of creating economic mobility opportunities for non-degree workers.

And while all of the above qualifications are important, there are three demonstrated capabilities most important for this job, and they are (blatantly borrowed from Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn):

• Dream Big
• Get Sh*t Done
• Know How to Have Fun

Compensation & Benefits 

Target salary for this position is $175,000–$200,000, depending on experience, geography, and internal equity.

SkillUp offers a generous compensation package which includes employer-sponsored healthcare, vision and dental, 401K employer match, 25 days of office closure, PTO, education stipend, and annual salary increases based on performance.

Our Commitment to Diversity 

At SkillUp, our mission is to help workers get hired for in-demand jobs in high-growth industries. Success in this mission requires that we don’t just accept differences, but that we celebrate and embrace the diverse community and backgrounds individuals come from. We stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place, and we embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. 

As a proud equal opportunity employer, SkillUp does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.