Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Posted on 10/31/2025

Clever

Clever

201-500 employees

Single Sign-On for K-12 learning apps

Compensation Overview

$148k - $175k/yr

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Product (2)
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Required Skills
Product Management
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Experience must have 4+ years of product management experience with a minimum of 2 years as a senior product manager or equivalent
  • Technical Expertise must have proven experience in building and managing technical SAAS products at scale. Ability to work closely with engineering teams to design scalable solutions
  • Customer and Partnership Focus: Demonstrated repeated success in deeply engaging with customers to understand their needs and pain points, including working on partnerships when required to deliver a high quality experience
  • Strategy focused: Proven success in leading, communicating, and defining strategy for a significant product area
  • Analytical Skills: Ability to balance the use of qualitative and quantitative data to make effective product decisions
  • Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities
  • Define Product Strategy: Develop and drive the product strategy and roadmap for SecureSync and LMS Connect
  • Customer Engagement: Immerse yourself with leaders, engineers, and product teams at edtech organizations to identify pain points and build delightful products that simplify technology use in schools
  • Technical Oversight: Ensure the technical requirements of the roadmap are clearly defined and aligned with business goals
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead cross-functional collaboration across product, design, engineering, marketing, and international teams, to discover, define, and bring new products to market
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with district and school leaders, as well as product and technical leaders at partner orgs to understand their needs and challenges, translating them into actionable product requirements
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Utilize qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions, measure success, and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Quality Assurance: Maintain high standards of quality and performance to uphold Clever's reputation for secure, reliable, and user-friendly integrations
  • Vision Communication: Articulate the long-term vision for Secure Sync and LMS Connect as core infrastructure, and communicate roadmap priorities to internal teams and external partners
Desired Qualifications
  • Commitment to inclusion and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace.

Clever provides a secure Single Sign-On (SSO) platform for K-12 schools, uniting many educational apps into one login portal. Schools and districts pay for the service, and app developers can join Clever’s App Gallery to reach students via a common entry point. The product works by linking a school’s systems so students, teachers, and administrators can sign in once and access all approved learning tools without multiple usernames. Clever’s advantage comes from its large network and proven adoption—more than 60% of U.S. schools, including 95 of the largest districts, use it, which helps app partners reach millions of students efficiently. The company aims to make digital learning easier and safer for millions of students by simplifying access to apps and improving security and administration for schools.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$511M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Clever IDM and MFA+ partnerships with White House address cybersecurity concerns in K-12 education.
  • Minga partnership streamlines school administration by combining campus management with SSO capabilities.
  • App Gallery with thousands of educator reviews reduces discovery friction and increases adoption rates.

What critics are saying

  • ClassLink's market consolidation threatens Clever's 77% share by offering unified alternative platform.
  • Google Workspace native SSO and Chromebook integration eliminate third-party platform necessity for schools.
  • Security breach affecting 27.5 million monthly student logins triggers mass defections and regulatory scrutiny.

What makes Clever unique

  • Serves 100,000 schools globally with 60% U.S. K-12 market penetration and 15 million monthly students.
  • Clever Complete integrates rostering, SSO, and LMS support into single platform reducing technical friction.
  • Passwordless Clever GO authentication via physical badges expands addressable markets to Europe and Australia.

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-5%

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-5%

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-5%
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