About Scratch

Scratch is a creative programming language and the world’s largest online coding community for children and teens. Children around the world use Scratch and ScratchJr to create their own interactive games, stories, and animations -- and share their creations with one another. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Last year, more than 30+ million children and teens around the world created projects with Scratch.

As an organization, we’re focused on centering our work on supporting creative learning for youth from communities impacted by systemic inequities, investing in our online community, developing our team, scaling our infrastructure, and improving data privacy, interoperability, and in-school experience. We’re looking for a diverse pool of applicants to join our team of nearly 70 educators, designers, and engineers, and help us steward our community through this work.

To learn more about Scratch, please visit: https://www.scratchfoundation.org/ and https://scratch.mit.edu/


Position Overview:

The Head of Product manages a team of product managers and product owners responsible for guiding the development of the Scratch Foundation’s product portfolio, including Scratch, ScratchJr, and the Scratch Online Community. The Head of Product works collaboratively with individual product owners, as well as partners on the Engineering, Design, and Community teams to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned on the development and implementation of the product roadmaps. In addition, the Head of Product ensures that individual product roadmaps are aligned with each other and with the Scratch Foundation’s strategic plan. This position plays a key role in creating structures to prioritize work and ensure clarity in decision-making, with a focus on overcoming existing barriers and developing features desired by our user base and community. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this is a new role for Scratch and one of the initial responsibilities will be to build out the team.


 

Responsibilities:

  • Hire and manage team of 3-4 product owners/managers

  • Partner with product owners and stakeholders on other teams (including Engineering, Design and Community) to ensure alignment on the product roadmap, allocation of resources, and prioritization of work

  • Ensure individual product roadmaps are aligned with Scratch’s overall strategic plan and vision

  • Ensure research is used to inform technical and product requirements

  • Develop processes to use product roadmaps and other tools to aid communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams

  • Manage high-priority cross-functional projects to deliver project outcomes aligned with product and organizational vision

  • Identify and recommend product and platform improvements

  • Create and implement collaborative structures to engage stakeholders in identifying product needs, improvements and priorities

  • Monitor the performance of key portfolio metrics

  • Other duties as assigned



Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product experience required, including experience in product leadership

  • 5+ years of project management or technical project management experience preferred

  • Significant prior experience in a relevant industry: communities of children, gaming, educational technology, or consumer technology preferred

  • Demonstrated success building and managing teams

  • Demonstrated success partnering with cross-functional stakeholders

  • Demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-functional projects


Additional information

  • The salary range for this position at  $205,400. 

  • Candidates located in the Eastern time zone are preferred; however, we will consider remote candidates in other locations who have strong qualifications.

    Candidates not in the Boston area must be able to travel to Boston 4-6 times per year for meetings and other in-person


The Scratch Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We especially encourage historically marginalized identities to apply.


This position has been filled.