Teaching Strategies, LLC

Design and maintain full stack product capabilities for childcare management systems including billing and reporting. | Senior engineer with 5-15+ years experience, strong Python backend and frontend skills, and experience with billing or financial workflows preferred. | Senior Full Stack Engineer--Childcare Management System (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the systems that child care centers rely on to run their businesses. This engineer will work primarily across our Python backend and web application surfaces, with a focus on family billing, payments, invoices, account administration, billing solution management, reporting, and other back-office capabilities that help centers operate efficiently and support families. In this role, you will take ownership of meaningful product and service work from discovery through delivery. You will translate product ideas and operational needs into clear technical plans, make pragmatic engineering decisions around architecture and technical debt, and collaborate closely with product managers, designers, QA, support, and other engineers. The ideal candidate is a senior engineer with strong Python backend experience, practical frontend/web experience, and the judgment to work effectively in a mature production system. You should be comfortable improving existing systems, building new capabilities within established patterns, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term product and platform health. This role is expected to use AI-assisted development practices where they improve quality, speed, and clarity, including CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows as well as fully agentic development flows where appropriate. You will also help the team evolve practical, responsible patterns for AI use in partnership with other engineers. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: • Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities for family billing and related back-office workflows, including invoices, payments, billing accounts, center administration, billing solution management, reporting, and operational support tooling. • Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python, following existing application patterns for authorization, data access, transactions, deferred work, and service boundaries. • Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainable client-side code. • Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs, especially in areas where billing accuracy, data integrity, and customer trust matter. • Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions that are technically sound and aligned with center and family needs. • Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness. • Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows, and use fully agentic flows where appropriate, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, security awareness, and accountability for the final output. • Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use, including where AI should accelerate work, where human review is essential, and how the team should share reusable prompts, workflows, and lessons learned. • Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts when needed, and incorporate that guidance into practical delivery plans. • Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, clear monitoring signals, careful rollout practices, and thoughtful handling of edge cases in billing and payment flows. • Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge so billing and back-office capabilities integrate cleanly with family engagement, center administration, account, admin, and reporting workflows. • Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Qualifications: • 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas. • Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing. • Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase. • Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, financial workflows, account administration, admin interfaces, reporting, or other high-integrity business systems is strongly preferred. • Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools. • Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices. • Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design. • Strong judgment around authorization, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle family, child care center, or payment-related information. • Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members. • Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus. • Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Design and maintain full stack product capabilities for childcare management including billing and reporting systems. | Senior-level software engineering experience with strong Python backend and frontend skills, plus ability to work in mature production systems and collaborate cross-functionally. | Senior Full Stack Engineer--Childcare Management System (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the systems that child care centers rely on to run their businesses. This engineer will work primarily across our Python backend and web application surfaces, with a focus on family billing, payments, invoices, account administration, billing solution management, reporting, and other back-office capabilities that help centers operate efficiently and support families. In this role, you will take ownership of meaningful product and service work from discovery through delivery. You will translate product ideas and operational needs into clear technical plans, make pragmatic engineering decisions around architecture and technical debt, and collaborate closely with product managers, designers, QA, support, and other engineers. The ideal candidate is a senior engineer with strong Python backend experience, practical frontend/web experience, and the judgment to work effectively in a mature production system. You should be comfortable improving existing systems, building new capabilities within established patterns, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term product and platform health. This role is expected to use AI-assisted development practices where they improve quality, speed, and clarity, including CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows as well as fully agentic development flows where appropriate. You will also help the team evolve practical, responsible patterns for AI use in partnership with other engineers. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: • Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities for family billing and related back-office workflows, including invoices, payments, billing accounts, center administration, billing solution management, reporting, and operational support tooling. • Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python, following existing application patterns for authorization, data access, transactions, deferred work, and service boundaries. • Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainable client-side code. • Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs, especially in areas where billing accuracy, data integrity, and customer trust matter. • Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions that are technically sound and aligned with center and family needs. • Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness. • Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows, and use fully agentic flows where appropriate, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, security awareness, and accountability for the final output. • Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use, including where AI should accelerate work, where human review is essential, and how the team should share reusable prompts, workflows, and lessons learned. • Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts when needed, and incorporate that guidance into practical delivery plans. • Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, clear monitoring signals, careful rollout practices, and thoughtful handling of edge cases in billing and payment flows. • Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge so billing and back-office capabilities integrate cleanly with family engagement, center administration, account, admin, and reporting workflows. • Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Qualifications: • 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas. • Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing. • Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase. • Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, financial workflows, account administration, admin interfaces, reporting, or other high-integrity business systems is strongly preferred. • Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools. • Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices. • Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design. • Strong judgment around authorization, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle family, child care center, or payment-related information. • Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members. • Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus. • Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Design and maintain full stack product capabilities with focus on billing and back-office workflows. | Senior-level software engineer with strong Python backend and frontend skills, experience in billing or financial workflows preferred. | Job Description: • Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities for family billing and related back-office workflows, including invoices, payments, billing accounts, center administration, billing solution management, reporting, and operational support tooling. • Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python, following existing application patterns for authorization, data access, transactions, deferred work, and service boundaries. • Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainable client-side code. • Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs, especially in areas where billing accuracy, data integrity, and customer trust matter. • Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions that are technically sound and aligned with center and family needs. • Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness. • Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows, and use fully agentic flows where appropriate, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, security awareness, and accountability for the final output. • Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use, including where AI should accelerate work, where human review is essential, and how the team should share reusable prompts, workflows, and lessons learned. • Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts when needed, and incorporate that guidance into practical delivery plans. • Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, clear monitoring signals, careful rollout practices, and thoughtful handling of edge cases in billing and payment flows. • Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge so billing and back-office capabilities integrate cleanly with family engagement, center administration, account, admin, and reporting workflows. • Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Requirements: • 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas. • Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing. • Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase. • Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, financial workflows, account administration, admin interfaces, reporting, or other high-integrity business systems is strongly preferred. • Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools. • Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices. • Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design. • Strong judgment around authorization, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle family, child care center, or payment-related information. • Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members. • Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus. • Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families. Benefits: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field

Design, build, and maintain full stack product capabilities primarily for family billing and back-office workflows. | Senior-level software engineer with strong Python backend and frontend experience, capable of working in mature production systems and collaborating across teams. | Senior Full Stack Engineer--Childcare Management System (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the systems that child care centers rely on to run their businesses. This engineer will work primarily across our Python backend and web application surfaces, with a focus on family billing, payments, invoices, account administration, billing solution management, reporting, and other back-office capabilities that help centers operate efficiently and support families. In this role, you will take ownership of meaningful product and service work from discovery through delivery. You will translate product ideas and operational needs into clear technical plans, make pragmatic engineering decisions around architecture and technical debt, and collaborate closely with product managers, designers, QA, support, and other engineers. The ideal candidate is a senior engineer with strong Python backend experience, practical frontend/web experience, and the judgment to work effectively in a mature production system. You should be comfortable improving existing systems, building new capabilities within established patterns, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term product and platform health. This role is expected to use AI-assisted development practices where they improve quality, speed, and clarity, including CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows as well as fully agentic development flows where appropriate. You will also help the team evolve practical, responsible patterns for AI use in partnership with other engineers. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: • Design, build, test, and maintain full stack product capabilities for family billing and related back-office workflows, including invoices, payments, billing accounts, center administration, billing solution management, reporting, and operational support tooling. • Develop backend services, APIs, task processing, and business logic primarily in Python, following existing application patterns for authorization, data access, transactions, deferred work, and service boundaries. • Build and improve web application experiences using the existing frontend stack, with attention to usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainable client-side code. • Make pragmatic, informed decisions about technical debt, refactoring, sequencing, and tradeoffs, especially in areas where billing accuracy, data integrity, and customer trust matter. • Partner with product, design, QA, customer-facing teams, and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions that are technically sound and aligned with center and family needs. • Use AI-assisted development throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical planning, implementation, testing, debugging, code review preparation, documentation, and release readiness. • Apply CLI-based prompt and guided AI workflows, and use fully agentic flows where appropriate, while maintaining strong engineering judgment, security awareness, and accountability for the final output. • Help define, evaluate, and improve team practices for effective AI use, including where AI should accelerate work, where human review is essential, and how the team should share reusable prompts, workflows, and lessons learned. • Seek input from architecture, design, security, infrastructure, or specialized domain experts when needed, and incorporate that guidance into practical delivery plans. • Improve quality and reliability through automated tests, clear monitoring signals, careful rollout practices, and thoughtful handling of edge cases in billing and payment flows. • Build cross-product and cross-service technical knowledge so billing and back-office capabilities integrate cleanly with family engagement, center administration, account, admin, and reporting workflows. • Participate in team planning, estimation, incident response, production support, and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Qualifications: • 5-15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level contributions to enterprise product or service areas. • Strong Python backend development experience, including API design, domain modeling, data validation, error handling and testing. • Experience building and maintaining web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern or legacy frontend frameworks; comfort working in an established frontend codebase. • Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, financial workflows, account administration, admin interfaces, reporting, or other high-integrity business systems is strongly preferred. • Experience with AI-assisted software development is preferred, including prompt-driven implementation, AI-supported testing/debugging, code review preparation, documentation workflows, or agentic development tools. • Interest in working in an AI-first engineering culture, with the curiosity and discipline to help the team evolve responsible, effective AI practices. • Practical understanding of relational or NoSQL data modeling, transactional behavior, asynchronous processing, queues, and idempotent workflow design. • Strong judgment around authorization, privacy, data integrity, and operational risk, especially for systems that handle family, child care center, or payment-related information. • Ability to reason through existing systems, identify the right integration points, and deliver improvements without unnecessary rewrites. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate, review code constructively, and raise the technical quality of a team. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical team members. • Strong bias for pragmatic execution: able to move work forward while keeping quality, maintainability, and customer impact in view. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, App Engine and/or Flask is a plus. • Interest in early childhood education, child care center operations, and building software that supports teachers, administrators, and families. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Manage employee benefits programs, HR systems, people analytics, and operational processes to support employee experience. | 5-7 years progressive benefits and people operations experience with leadership and HRIS skills. | DescriptionBe a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview The Senior Manager, Benefits and People Operations is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the company's employee benefits programs, HR systems, people analytics, and operational processes that support the employee experience. This role serves as the primary owner of benefits administration while also supporting broader People Operations initiatives, including HRIS administration, workforce reporting, compliance, process improvement, and operational support. The People Operations Manager partners closely with brokers, vendors, Finance, Payroll, and internal stakeholders to ensure programs are administered efficiently, compliantly, and with a strong employee experience focus. The ideal candidate is highly organized, analytical, customer-focused, and capable of translating complex data and processes into meaningful insights and solutions. Specific Roles & Responsibilities:Benefits Administration & Total Rewards • Oversee the daily administration of the company's health and welfare programs, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health savings accounts (HSA), and retirement programs. • Serve as the primary operational owner of employee benefit programs and ensure efficient and compliant program administration. • Partner with brokers, carriers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to maintain competitive and effective benefit offerings. • Act as the primary escalation point for complex employee benefit questions and issue resolution. • Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, including ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and other benefits-related requirements. • Monitor regulatory changes, assess organizational impact, recommend actions, and implement necessary updates. • Manage monthly benefit billing, reconciliations, audits, and vendor reporting. • Lead benefit plan renewals, annual open enrollment activities, employee communications, and implementation of new benefit programs. • Configure and maintain benefit plans within the HRIS system. • Partner with brokers and vendors to review utilization, claims, and program performance and provide recommendations for continuous improvement. • Support budget planning by providing benefits data, analysis, and insights. • Support the organizations compensation programs by conducting market pricing and benchmarks to ensure compensation remains competitive and aligned with business objectives. People Operations • Support the overall administration and continuous improvement of People Operations programs, processes, and systems. • Serve as a key administrator for the company's HRIS platform, ensuring data integrity, system accuracy, and efficient workflows. • Partner with Payroll and Finance to support employee lifecycle transactions and payroll-related processes. • Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, documentation, and process improvements. • Identify opportunities to streamline and automate People Operations processes to improve efficiency and employee experience. • Provide guidance and support to People Operations team members on complex employee issues, policies, and procedures. People Analytics & Reporting • Develop and maintain People Operations dashboards, reports, and workforce metrics. • Track and analyze key people metrics, including headcount, turnover, retention, recruiting activity, benefits utilization, compensation, and employee demographics. • Translate workforce data into meaningful insights and recommendations for People Team and business leaders. • Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements. • Assist with workforce planning, budgeting, and organizational reporting initiatives. • Ensure accuracy and integrity of employee and organizational data. Vendor Management & Compliance • Manage relationships with benefit providers, brokers, retirement vendors, and People Operations partners. • Coordinate vendor implementations, renewals, audits, and ongoing performance reviews. • Support internal and external audit requests related to benefits, HRIS, and employee data. • Maintain compliance documentation and ensure operational readiness for audits and regulatory reviews. Team Leadership • Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and support to direct reports. • Establish goals and priorities for the People Operations team. • Foster a culture of accountability, service excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration. • Support professional development and growth opportunities for team members. Qualifications: Required • 5–7 years of progressive Benefits and People Operations experience. • 5+ years of experience overseeing employee benefit programs. • Previous manager experience acting as both a player and coach • Experience managing health and retirement plans, and vendor relationships. • Experience administering self-funded medical plans. • Experience working with HRIS systems and employee data management. • Strong analytical, reporting, and problem-solving skills. • Experience managing complex employee issues with professionalism and discretion. • Prior leadership or supervisory experience. Preferred • Experience with Rippling or other HRIS platforms. • Experience supporting a multi-state workforce. • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. • CEBS, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification. • Experience in a SaaS, technology, or high-growth organization. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Design and operate secure EKS clusters and build AI-driven workflows for infrastructure provisioning and incident triage. | 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering with AWS, Kubernetes, and programming in Python or Go, plus AI/LLM integration interest. | Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview We’re seeking a senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to help evolve our internal developer platform into an AI-first, intelligent system that makes infrastructure self-service, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous. In this role, you will work closely with platform leadership to implement and extend a vision for abstracting cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code), while introducing AI-driven workflows, natural language interfaces, and intelligent automation into the developer experience. You’ll be a hands-on technical expert in AWS EKS and platform engineering, building extensible tooling and systems that enable developers to provision, operate, and troubleshoot infrastructure through intuitive, context-aware workflows. This is a high-impact role for a senior engineer who operates with autonomy, contributes to platform direction, and executes at a high level across teams. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: Contribute to Platform Evolution Partner with platform leadership to evolve the internal developer platform toward an AI-first model Translate strategic direction into practical, scalable implementations Help shape platform capabilities through hands-on engineering and technical input Build Self-Service Infrastructure Design and implement self-service infrastructure systems that abstract away cloud complexity Build APIs, CLIs, and developer-facing tools that enable infrastructure provisioning without requiring deep cloud expertise Introduce AI-assisted interfaces (CLI, chat, UI) for provisioning, debugging, and operations Engineer and Scale Kubernetes Platforms (EKS) Design, build, and operate secure, multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, cost optimization, and reliability Implement policy, networking, and workload isolation best practices Implement Intelligent Platform Workflows Build systems that interpret infrastructure signals (logs, metrics, events) and provide actionable insights Develop AI-assisted workflows for incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbook generation/execution Enable human-in-the-loop automation for safe and controlled remediation Develop Developer Tooling and Experience Build platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that standardize infrastructure consumption Contribute to AI-powered copilots and assistants that improve developer productivity Enable natural language interaction with platform services where appropriate Codify Best Practices Implement reusable infrastructure patterns and opinionated defaults Encode security, scalability, and compliance into platform tooling Extend Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., OpenTofu) with abstraction and validation layers Drive Observability and Insight Implement logging, metrics, and tracing across platform systems Leverage AI to detect anomalies, summarize system behavior, and surface actionable insights Contribute to systems that move from visibility to guided action Iterate and Improve Contribute to platform instrumentation and feedback loops Use data and developer feedback to improve usability, performance, and adoption Continuously refine platform capabilities based on real-world usage Collaborate Across Teams Work closely with application teams, SREs, and security engineers Support platform adoption through strong technical partnership Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers where needed Why This Role Matters Our developers should spend their time shipping features, not wrestling with YAML, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure. In this role, you’ll help build a platform that is not only self-service, but intelligent and context-aware, enabling engineers to move faster, make better decisions, and focus on what matters most. This is an opportunity to: Operate as a senior, high-impact individual contributor on a modern platform team Help evolve infrastructure into an AI-first, intelligent system Build tools and systems that actively amplify developer productivity Qualifications: Core Experience 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering role Proven experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms Deep expertise in Amazon Web Services, especially EKS, IAM, and networking Strong programming skills (Python or Go), with experience building production-grade tools and services Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and cloud-native architectures AI-First and Systems Thinking Experience or strong interest in integrating AI/LLMs into developer or operational workflows Familiarity with APIs from providers like OpenAI or similar Understanding of event-driven architectures and their role in intelligent automation Ability to design adaptive, feedback-driven systems rather than static workflows Platform and Developer Experience Experience building developer tooling (CLIs, portals, SDKs) Familiarity with platforms like Backstage, Port, or custom developer portals Strong product mindset with a focus on usability and developer experience Collaboration and Influence Strong systems thinking and architectural design skills Ability to operate independently while aligning with platform direction Effective communication and cross-team collaboration skills AI-First Platform Principles From automation to intelligence - systems interpret and act, not just execute Context-aware interfaces - developers interact via guided and natural workflows Human-in-the-loop - automation includes safe approval and oversight Observability to action - insights lead to recommendations and responses Continuous learning - platforms improve through feedback and usage patterns Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: Competitive compensation package Employee Equity Appreciation Program Health and wellness insurance benefits 401k with employer match Flexible work environment Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) Paid parental leave Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth Best in class technology equipment for every employee Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Design and evolve an AI-first internal developer platform with self-service infrastructure and intelligent automation. | 8+ years infrastructure/platform engineering experience with deep AWS EKS expertise, programming skills in Python or Go, and interest in AI-driven workflows. | Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview We’re seeking a senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to help evolve our internal developer platform into an AI-first, intelligent system that makes infrastructure self-service, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous. In this role, you will work closely with platform leadership to implement and extend a vision for abstracting cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code), while introducing AI-driven workflows, natural language interfaces, and intelligent automation into the developer experience. You’ll be a hands-on technical expert in AWS EKS and platform engineering, building extensible tooling and systems that enable developers to provision, operate, and troubleshoot infrastructure through intuitive, context-aware workflows. This is a high-impact role for a senior engineer who operates with autonomy, contributes to platform direction, and executes at a high level across teams. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: Contribute to Platform Evolution • Partner with platform leadership to evolve the internal developer platform toward an AI-first model • Translate strategic direction into practical, scalable implementations • Help shape platform capabilities through hands-on engineering and technical input Build Self-Service Infrastructure • Design and implement self-service infrastructure systems that abstract away cloud complexity • Build APIs, CLIs, and developer-facing tools that enable infrastructure provisioning without requiring deep cloud expertise • Introduce AI-assisted interfaces (CLI, chat, UI) for provisioning, debugging, and operations Engineer and Scale Kubernetes Platforms (EKS) • Design, build, and operate secure, multi-tenant Amazon EKS clusters • Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, cost optimization, and reliability • Implement policy, networking, and workload isolation best practices Implement Intelligent Platform Workflows • Build systems that interpret infrastructure signals (logs, metrics, events) and provide actionable insights • Develop AI-assisted workflows for incident triage, root cause analysis, and runbook generation/execution • Enable human-in-the-loop automation for safe and controlled remediation Develop Developer Tooling and Experience • Build platform SDKs, CLIs, and service templates that standardize infrastructure consumption • Contribute to AI-powered copilots and assistants that improve developer productivity • Enable natural language interaction with platform services where appropriate Codify Best Practices • Implement reusable infrastructure patterns and opinionated defaults • Encode security, scalability, and compliance into platform tooling • Extend Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., OpenTofu) with abstraction and validation layers Drive Observability and Insight • Implement logging, metrics, and tracing across platform systems • Leverage AI to detect anomalies, summarize system behavior, and surface actionable insights • Contribute to systems that move from visibility to guided action Iterate and Improve • Contribute to platform instrumentation and feedback loops • Use data and developer feedback to improve usability, performance, and adoption • Continuously refine platform capabilities based on real-world usage Collaborate Across Teams • Work closely with application teams, SREs, and security engineers • Support platform adoption through strong technical partnership • Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers where needed Why This Role Matters Our developers should spend their time shipping features, not wrestling with YAML, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure. In this role, you’ll help build a platform that is not only self-service, but intelligent and context-aware, enabling engineers to move faster, make better decisions, and focus on what matters most. This is an opportunity to: • Operate as a senior, high-impact individual contributor on a modern platform team • Help evolve infrastructure into an AI-first, intelligent system • Build tools and systems that actively amplify developer productivity Qualifications: Core Experience • 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering role • Proven experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms • Deep expertise in Amazon Web Services, especially EKS, IAM, and networking • Strong programming skills (Python or Go), with experience building production-grade tools and services • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and cloud-native architectures AI-First and Systems Thinking • Experience or strong interest in integrating AI/LLMs into developer or operational workflows • Familiarity with APIs from providers like OpenAI or similar • Understanding of event-driven architectures and their role in intelligent automation • Ability to design adaptive, feedback-driven systems rather than static workflows Platform and Developer Experience • Experience building developer tooling (CLIs, portals, SDKs) • Familiarity with platforms like Backstage, Port, or custom developer portals • Strong product mindset with a focus on usability and developer experience Collaboration and Influence • Strong systems thinking and architectural design skills • Ability to operate independently while aligning with platform direction • Effective communication and cross-team collaboration skills AI-First Platform Principles • From automation to intelligence - systems interpret and act, not just execute • Context-aware interfaces - developers interact via guided and natural workflows • Human-in-the-loop - automation includes safe approval and oversight • Observability to action - insights lead to recommendations and responses • Continuous learning - platforms improve through feedback and usage patterns Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Design and develop scalable platform services, UI, APIs, and support engineering best practices. | 5+ years experience with Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, microservices, cloud-native AWS applications, and mentoring. | Senior Software Engineer (Remote) Department: Tech Dev Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Position OverviewOur Platform Engineering team builds and maintains the core services and web applications that power scalable SaaS solutions used by educational organizations worldwide. We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges across the stack and building systems that enable product teams to move faster and more effectively. This role combines backend platform development, frontend application architecture, and cloud-native engineering practices. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across services, APIs, and user interfaces while helping drive engineering quality, scalability, and operational excellence. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform services, UI, APIs, and shared application capabilities • Build modern, performant user experiences using React and Next.js • Develop and optimize backend services using Go and PostgreSQL • Design and implement GraphQL APIs and supporting data models • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, API-driven applications • Contribute to platform architecture, technical design, and engineering standards • Troubleshoot application issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement sustainable solutions • Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and engineering best practices • Participate in code reviews, technical planning, and architectural discussions • Mentor engineers and promote high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability • Leverage AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate debugging, validation, automation, and delivery • Stay current with emerging technologies, frameworks, and modern software engineering practices Qualifications: • 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production web applications • Strong experience with Go and modern JavaScript/TypeScript development • Deep experience with React and Next.js • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization • Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs • Experience building and supporting microservices-based architectures • Familiarity with micro frontend architectures and distributed systems • Experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications using AWS services such as Lambda, EKS, AppSync, and Docker-based workloads • Strong understanding of secure, accessible, and high-performance web application development • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows, preferably using Bitbucket or GitHub • Strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills across the full stack • Experience working in Agile development environments • Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices • Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and modern developer productivity tools Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field

Lead product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of a childcare management system with AI-enabled workflow automation. | Over 6 years of product management experience with AI application in software development and managing complex SaaS workflows. | Director of Product Management--Childcare Center Management System (Remote) Department: Product Management Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the product strategy, execution, and delivery of our Childcare Center Management system, including billing, staffing, enrollment, and classroom operations. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for administrator workflows that are intuitive, efficient, and integrated with the other elements of the SmartTeach platform experience. You will be responsible for defining and driving the product strategy, roadmap, and requirements. You will work closely with engineering, design and QA to use AI-enabled development practices across the team to accelerate delivery and ensure quality, while also defining and delivering AI-powered product capabilities that simplify and automate center management workflows. Success in this role will involve building a high-performing team that uses AI-native development practices to deliver complex roadmap initiatives quickly without compromising quality. You will launch features that reduce operational effort for administrators and drive measurable gains in adoption, engagement, and retention, and revenue impact. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: Define and execute product strategy, vision, and roadmap aligned to company goals. Lead and coach an Associate Product Manager, focusing on clear ownership and accountability. Drive delivery across multiple agile teams, ensuring speed, quality, and alignment. Implement AI-enabled and agentic development practices (e.g., AI-assisted requirements, prototyping, testing, QA) to improve velocity and quality. Identify and prioritize AI opportunities within center management workflows (billing, enrollment, staffing, & family engagement) to reduce the administrative burden. Partner with Engineering and Design to use AI capabilities to deliver intuitive, high-value product experiences. Own prioritization across features, bugs, technical debt, and AI initiatives. Use data, analytics, and experimentation to guide decisions and improve product performance. Engage customers to validate solutions and maintain deep understanding of user needs. Communicate strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership. Lead successful product launches with clear market impact and adoption. Qualifications: 6+ years of product management experience, including leadership of complex product areas. Proven track record delivering high-quality SaaS products in fast-paced environments. Experience owning product strategy, roadmap, and execution end-to-end. Strong experience using data, analytics, and user research to drive prioritization and decisions. Demonstrated experience applying AI across the software development lifecycle to improve delivery speed and quality. Experience identifying and delivering AI-powered product features that solve real customer problems. Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders. Experience with high-frequency SaaS workflows (e.g., billing, enrollment) preferred. Experience with administrator workflows, center management, or billing and payments is a plus. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: Competitive compensation package Employee Equity Appreciation Program Health and wellness insurance benefits 401k with employer match Flexible work environment Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) Paid parental leave Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth Best in class technology equipment for every employee Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

Lead product strategy and execution for a childcare center management system with AI-powered features. | 6+ years product management experience with leadership, SaaS delivery, AI application, and strong collaboration skills. | Director of Product Management--Childcare Center Management System (Remote) Department: Product Management Employment Type: Full Time Location: Denton, Texas Description Be a Part of our Team! Join a working team that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do! Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the product strategy, execution, and delivery of our Childcare Center Management system, including billing, staffing, enrollment, and classroom operations. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for administrator workflows that are intuitive, efficient, and integrated with the other elements of the SmartTeach platform experience. You will be responsible for defining and driving the product strategy, roadmap, and requirements. You will work closely with engineering, design and QA to use AI-enabled development practices across the team to accelerate delivery and ensure quality, while also defining and delivering AI-powered product capabilities that simplify and automate center management workflows. Success in this role will involve building a high-performing team that uses AI-native development practices to deliver complex roadmap initiatives quickly without compromising quality. You will launch features that reduce operational effort for administrators and drive measurable gains in adoption, engagement, and retention, and revenue impact. Specific Roles & Responsibilities: • Define and execute product strategy, vision, and roadmap aligned to company goals. • Lead and coach an Associate Product Manager, focusing on clear ownership and accountability. • Drive delivery across multiple agile teams, ensuring speed, quality, and alignment. • Implement AI-enabled and agentic development practices (e.g., AI-assisted requirements, prototyping, testing, QA) to improve velocity and quality. • Identify and prioritize AI opportunities within center management workflows (billing, enrollment, staffing, & family engagement) to reduce the administrative burden. • Partner with Engineering and Design to use AI capabilities to deliver intuitive, high-value product experiences. • Own prioritization across features, bugs, technical debt, and AI initiatives. • Use data, analytics, and experimentation to guide decisions and improve product performance. • Engage customers to validate solutions and maintain deep understanding of user needs. • Communicate strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership. • Lead successful product launches with clear market impact and adoption. Qualifications: • 6+ years of product management experience, including leadership of complex product areas. • Proven track record delivering high-quality SaaS products in fast-paced environments. • Experience owning product strategy, roadmap, and execution end-to-end. • Strong experience using data, analytics, and user research to drive prioritization and decisions. • Demonstrated experience applying AI across the software development lifecycle to improve delivery speed and quality. • Experience identifying and delivering AI-powered product features that solve real customer problems. • Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders. • Experience with high-frequency SaaS workflows (e.g., billing, enrollment) preferred. • Experience with administrator workflows, center management, or billing and payments is a plus. Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies! Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include: • Competitive compensation package • Employee Equity Appreciation Program • Health and wellness insurance benefits • 401k with employer match • Flexible work environment • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break) • Paid parental leave • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth • Best in class technology equipment for every employee • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)