At Course Hero, we have spent the last 17 years building a world where every student graduates, confident and prepared. Generative AI is completely transforming the higher education industry and Course Hero is looking for an energetic and scrappy Venture Product Lead to lead our product innovations team to launch venture bets powered by GenAI.
In this position, you will collaborate with a team of entrepreneurial engineers and a designer to bring new GenAI-powered products to life, starting with our first big bet, Exam Prep. We are looking for a candidate who can build a strong understanding of our student customers and can translate that understanding into a product that helps them prepare to ace their exams quickly and easily. Join us to shape the future of education technology!
Here are some more ways you’ll make an impact
- Understand Course Hero's student customers. Create a product vision for how we can help those customers prepare to ace their exams quickly and easily.
- Deliver on this vision by setting your team's goals, success metrics, and roadmap.
- Build together with customers - get their feedback early and often.
- Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers and designers that's building something great using cutting edge technologies and making it accessible to millions of students. You'll embrace startup culture in which you'll move fast, learn quickly, make an impact and have fun while doing it.
- Launch quickly, experiment, iterate.
Are you our Venture Product Lead?
- Passion for helping all students graduate confident and prepared
- Have launched or founded your own business and built a product that delighted customers
- You can get your hands dirty in designing, user research, competitive intelligence or data analysis
- Skilled in using analytics platforms like Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools and SQL to drive data-informed decision-making
- Proven ability to make things happen around you. You manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way. Be able to define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products
- Experience leading post-launch optimizations, including developing testing strategies
- Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills -- balancing multiple projects, deadlines, and requests should be second nature to you
- High bias for action, with a strong sense of urgency and work ethic; thrives in fast-paced environments
Benefits & Perks!
- Competitive salary, annual bonus, and RSUs
- Medical coverage, including full dental and vision
- Life and disability benefits
- 401(k) program (US) / retirement savings plan (Canada) with company match
- One month paid sabbatical after 5 years at the company
- Education reimbursement
- Professional development workshops & industry conferences
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Social responsibility program (volunteer time off and donation matching)
- Annual wellness stipend
- Monthly tech stipend
- Annual family planning stipend
- Quarterly snack boxes delivered to your door
For positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Other locations: IL, MA, NJ.
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. We strongly encourage you to apply if you're interested: we'd love to learn how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
We are a virtual-first company and have employees dispersed throughout the United States and Canada. We have a market-based pay structure that varies by location. The base pay for this position is dependent on multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed below. You may also be eligible to participate in our bonus program and may be offered an equity award, benefits, and other types of compensation.
This role is eligible for hire in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vancouver, Canada, or Toronto, Canada.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Course Hero:
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate, confident and prepared. The online learning platform offers over 60 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 65,000 verified college educators use Course Hero to collaborate with other faculty and share resources to hone new strategies for instruction. Everyday, students, educators and tutors help more than 20 million students make every study hour count.
Join us on our mission!
In accordance with Canadian law, the base salary for this role if filled within Canada is as follows.
Canada Pay Range
$138,000—$186,000 CAD
In accordance with California law, the base salary for this role if filled within SF Bay Area, California is as follows.
SF Bay Area, California Pay Range
$208,000—$282,000 USD
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Course Hero, a Learneo business, is an online learning platform with over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by our community of students and educators, and produced by our team of educational content specialists in collaboration with subject experts.
You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying—from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to psychology, and everything in between. Through Course Hero, you can quickly find what you need to learn deeply.
We work closely with educators to help support student learning and complement what’s happening in the classroom. We want to see more students walking up to the podium on graduation day, proud of what they’ve accomplished, and ready to build great lives for themselves. We aim to help them get there.
Why Work With Us
We foster a culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance and encourages wellbeing and personal development. Our employees are fans of our virtual-first work environment (bye bye commute), employee experience that extends beyond the office and holistic wellness, health, family planning and leave benefits.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our hybrid policy allows employees are able to choose when to work from home and when to work in-person at our Redwood City office.
