Job Description

Title of Position: Senior Product Manager

Office: Remote

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review/Tutor.com is a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admission services company. Every year, it helps millions of college- and graduate school–bound students achieve their education and career goals through online and in-person courses delivered by a network of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources, and its more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House. The company’s Tutor.com brand is one of the largest online tutoring services in the U.S. It comprises a community of thousands of tutors who have delivered more than 27 million one-to-one tutoring sessions. The Princeton Review is headquartered in New York, NY. Follow the company on LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram

About the position

The Princeton Review (TPR) is seeking a strategic, user-obsessed Senior Product Manager who can drive significant portions of our product strategy, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, and elevate the learning experience for millions of students. This role requires a seasoned product manager who combines deep discovery and analytical rigor with strong execution, and who can translate vision into measurable impact in a fast-moving, agile environment.

You will shape major components of the future test prep platform as we re-invent the experience, own high-stakes product decisions, and partner closely with design, engineering, curriculum, and operations to deliver innovative learning experiences that meaningfully improve learner outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Product Discovery & User Empathy

• Deeply understand our users: Through continuous discovery, rigorous analysis of data and insights, and a strong grasp of market and competitive dynamics, develop an expert-level understanding of our learners and their pain points.

• Employ problem-first thinking Lead with a clear definition of the problem before considering solutions. Use qualitative and quantitative methods to uncover root causes of user pain, validate assumptions, and ensure proposed features address the underlying need.

• Champion customer needs: Through continuous, extensive direct customer engagement and market research, develop an evidence-based view of user pain points, behaviors, and use cases that shape long-term product direction and inform major product investments.

• Product Strategy

• Understand & influence strategy: Collaborate closely with the Director of Product to understand and in some places, inform the overarching product strategy.

• Translate product strategy into action: Transform strategic direction into clear, actionable plans by defining priorities, shaping initiatives, and aligning cross-functional teams.

• Experimentation & Innovation

• Conduct meaningful experiments Design and run strategic experiments to validate direction, pressure-test assumptions, and guide the organization toward high-impact solutions.

• Leverage AI to drive innovation: Identify, evaluate, and incorporate AI capabilities that meaningfully enhance the platform’s adaptability, personalization, and effectiveness, ensuring TPR remains competitive and future-focused.

• Iterate toward impact: Guide ongoing cycles of prototyping, user testing, and incremental releases, ensuring each iteration delivers meaningful value and contributes to long-term product quality.

• Execution & Delivery

• Deliver roadmaps: Lead a cross-functional development team to deliver on a roadmap that reflects strategic priorities, balances iteration with innovation, and drives measurable value for learners and the business.

• Build agilely: Partner closely with engineering and design to plan and execute iterative development cycles grounded in agile methodologies, ensuring clarity of goals, efficient collaboration, and rapid learning.

• Use engagement tactics intentionally: Strong working knowledge of product engagement tactics such as gamification, behavioral design, motivation systems, and progression mechanics. Ability to evaluate when and how to apply them to drive meaningful learner value.

• Organizational Influence

• Manage projects cross-functionally: Rally cross-functional teams around shared goals and timelines. Serve as the “quarterback” who drives alignment, anticipates challenges, defines cross-functional milestones, and makes sure they are met across engineering, QA, content operations, marketing, and other functions as necessary.

• Drive clarity across the organization: Communicate product strategy, decisions, progress, and user value clearly and compellingly to stakeholders across sales, marketing, customer success, and leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment.

Who you are

• Degree BA required, MA is a plus.

• Experience: A minimum of 5 years of product management experience delivering digital products in fast-paced environments, with a demonstrated ability to translate broad strategy into actionable product plans and lead cross-functional teams through complex initiatives.

• Execution Proven track record of shipping successful products, whether 0-1 launches or meaningful iterations on mature products, through strong partnership with engineering, design, and other stakeholders.

• Innovation and AI: Experience launching AI-enabled features or products, with a perspective on where AI is most impactful at solving user problems.

• Discovery and experimentation: Strong expertise in customer discovery and experimentation. Skilled at forming hypotheses, validating assumptions, and using evidence to guide decision-making.

• Data fluency: Analytical mindset with comfort using data to understand product performance, uncover insights, and inform prioritization.

• Project management Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with multi-disciplinary stakeholders

• Communication & influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels, align stakeholders, and clearly articulate product vision and value.

• Education expertise: Understanding of the education landscape and specific experience within Edtech is a huge plus.

What we offer

The Princeton Review is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Princeton Review’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. The Princeton Review also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also The Princeton Review’s policy to comply with all applicable laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

To Apply: 

As part of your application, please include your resume and a thoughtful cover letter, addressed to Claire Engel, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position. The salary range for this position is $117,000-$169,000