Product Manager, Optimizer

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🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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Timely

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Early Stage VC on 2022-12

Education • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Timely is an AI-powered scheduling platform focused on K-12 education. Timely combines AI optimization with educator-led support to build district master schedules that reflect priorities, constraints, and student needs more quickly and precisely. The company is built by former educators and district leaders and markets its platform to school districts, claiming deployments in 22 states, 90+ districts, and supporting roughly 500,000 students. Timely emphasizes systemwide visibility, smarter staffing, FTE reallocation, budget savings, and higher rates of students with complete schedules.

📋 Description

• Engage with customers to understand opportunities to generate better K12 school schedules • Dive into optimizer technology and the scheduling domain to facilitate critical decisions with Engineering • Partner with Engineering to improve optimizer core algorithms, model-builders, and orchestration pipeline • Design and execute experiments testing optimizer changes • Define performance and quality metrics such as feasibility rate, schedule quality scores, solve time, and constraint violations • Craft optimizer product requirements and refine new product features • Work with Engineering and AI agents to break requirements into well-defined stories • Leverage AI to connect requirements, story definition, and development workflows • Develop and implement a vision for generative AI in algorithmic schedule optimization • Own the end-to-end experience for school schedulers interacting with the optimizer • Communicate results, tradeoffs, and infeasible or sub-optimal solutions • Drive goal- and metric-setting processes with Engineering • Set and adjust milestones, maintain standards, and focus the team on impact • Communicate product and technology decisions to internal and external stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years in B2B SaaS product organizations • At least 3 years as a Product Manager • Experience working on products with an algorithmic, decision-support, or operations research core • Strong data analysis and metric design skills • Ability to design experiments and interpret their results • Strong user-centric story writing • Mastery of agile toolsets such as Jira, Notion, and Miro • Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled SDLC practices • Collaborative, detail-oriented problem solver • Visual communication skills using mockups, sketches, diagrams, or journey maps • Nice-to-have: background in EdTech and/or education sector • Nice-to-have: experience with optimization, decision-support systems, constraint satisfaction, or algorithmic products • Nice-to-have: familiarity with A/B testing or experimentation frameworks • Nice-to-have: background in operations research or a technical discipline • Must address whether United States work authorization sponsorship will be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and dental insurance • Parental leave • 401(k) • Unlimited PTO • Access to coworking • Equity in a fast-growing, successful startup • Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education • Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product