AI Product Director

Crossover

Are you a product leader prepared to harness AI to reshape the way education functions? We are seeking someone to own our Education vertical and take full responsibility for the mission of enabling students to learn with greater effectiveness. This role centers on catalyzing systemic transformation, not simply delivering incremental product enhancements.You will define the objective for our Education vertical and be empowered to deliver it. You will personally write the master "Brain Lift" that encodes our strategy and establishes the portfolio roadmap uniting all our educational products into a coherent whole. You will lead a team of talented Product Owners as a player-coach, staying deeply engaged in the most mission-critical work.

The traditional one-size-fits-all model of education does not serve individual students well. Our method is to construct a new system grounded in learning science and AI that provides genuinely individualized instruction. We are demonstrating that education can be both profoundly personal and remarkably effective.

You will guide a talented team of product owners and collaborate directly with the founders to direct the entire vertical. The metric of your success is straightforward: concrete, data-driven evidence that your strategy meaningfully enhanced how students learn. If you are prepared for this level of challenge and accountability, we should speak.

What You Will Be Doing

• Architecting the Domain Knowledge: Own and refine the master "Education Domain BrainLift," distilling team insights and market intelligence into a unified, cohesive strategy that aligns the full vertical on critical product decisions.
• Driving the Portfolio Roadmap: Convert the Domain BrainLift into an outcome-oriented roadmap spanning the entire product portfolio. You will establish the sequence of initiatives that generates compounding value and supply the strategic rationale guiding your team's execution.
• Player-Coach Execution: Operate as a player-coach: run your own OODA loops on high-stakes outcomes to establish the standard, while coaching your team through reviewing their iterations and refining their insights to ensure cohesive portfolio execution.

What You Won t Be Doing

• Serving as a pure people manager. Your principal responsibility is to lead the vertical's strategy and establish the execution standard, not simply administer headcount, budgets, and process mechanics.
• Implementing a top-down strategy delivered to you. You are expected to personally craft the comprehensive, overarching strategy for the entire vertical, synthesizing insights from the ground up.
• Developing static, long-range roadmaps. Your portfolio roadmap is a dynamic instrument. You will navigate the portfolio with agility, integrating weekly insights from your team's iterations and your own.
• Running a "feature factory." Your success is measured by achievement of the strategic outcome for the vertical. This demands fostering genuine cross-pollination between products, not merely shipping additional features in isolation.