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About egelloCegelloC is a fast-growing education coaching company helping students and families successfully navigate the college admissions process.Our mission is to make high-level college admissions strategy more accessible, personalized, and impactful for students from all backgrounds.We work closely with families to provide long-term academic, extracurricular, and admissions guidance for highly competitive universities across the United States, with a strong focus on the UC system, CSUs, and Top 100 U.S. colleges and universities.Today, egelloC supports students nationwide through a fully remote team of coaches, strategists, editors, client success professionals, product team members, and operations specialists.If you would like to learn more about our company culture, student success stories, and team presence, we encourage you to explore our TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and website.About NestegelloC builds Nest, our student-facing platform that helps students navigate the college admissions journey with support from coaches, editors, and internal teams.Nest is central to the student and family experience, helping organize admissions milestones, progress tracking, communication, workflows, coaching visibility, and service delivery.About the RoleWe are looking for a hands-on, organized, and execution-driven Product Manager, Nest to own the day-to-day development and product operations of Nest.This is not a strategy-only product role. You will translate business needs, student feedback, coach requests, and operational pain points into clear product requirements, scoped tickets, backlog priorities, tested features, and launch updates.You will be the person who turns “we need this” into a structured product request, a clear engineering ticket, a shipped improvement, and a simple internal announcement that CX, coaches, and stakeholders can understand.What You’ll OwnProduct Backlog ManagementOwn and maintain the Nest product backlog, including bug reports, feature requests, enhancement ideas, and operational needs from internal teams.Product Requirements & DocumentationWrite clear PRDs, feature briefs, rollout notes, user stories, and acceptance criteria that engineering, design, and non-technical teams can understand.Ticket Creation & Scope ControlCreate well-structured tickets with the problem, expected behavior, actual behavior, scope, out-of-scope items, edge cases, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.Engineering & Design CoordinationWork closely with engineering and UX/design to confirm feasibility, clarify requirements, resolve blockers, review mockups, and keep development moving.Launch Readiness & RolloutSupport launch planning, access rules, permissions, cohort logic, phased rollouts, QA coordination, and post-launch monitoring.Internal CommunicationWrite clear feature updates and launch announcements for CX, coaches, leadership, and operations teams, explaining what changed, why it matters, and who is affected.Post-Launch Follow-UpMonitor feedback after releases, identify issues, track recurring themes, and turn learnings into future product improvements.What You’ll Do Day to DayReview incoming feedback, bug reports, and product requests from CX, coaches, operations, students, and leadership.Reproduce issues where needed and document them clearly.Check for duplicates before creating new tickets.Break larger product ideas into smaller, shippable phases.Write and maintain PRDs for larger initiatives.Partner with UX/design to turn workflows and mockups into buildable specs.Run product working sessions with engineering and technical leads to triage, scope, and prepare work for development.Coordinate QA and confirm that features or fixes are retested after deployment.Draft and post launch updates so internal teams understand what changed and how to use it.Track recurring feedback themes and proactively recommend improvements.Who Thrives HereYou are an execution-focused product operator who enjoys moving work from idea to ticket to launch.You are a strong written communicator who can write both technical tickets for engineers and simple announcements for non-technical teams.You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable keeping scopes tight, priorities clear, and follow-ups from slipping.You can translate between engineering, design, CX, coaches, operations, and leadership.You have a bias toward shipping and know how to move product requests forward in a structured way.Requirements3+ years of experience in product management, product operations, technical project management, or a similar software-related role.Experience managing a product backlog.Strong experience writing PRDs, tickets, user stories, acceptance criteria, or technical documentation.Ability to work closely with engineering, UX/design, and customer-facing teams.Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.Comfort working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Strong availability during core business hours, especially 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM PT.Nice to HaveExperience with EdTech, admissions, coaching, student platforms, or service-driven products.Experience with ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Asana, Notion, Slack, Figma, or similar tools.Experience with phased rollouts, permissions, access rules, cohort-based releases, or entitlement logic.Comfort using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar tools to support product documentation, ticket writing, and product operations.Experience coordinating QA or release readiness.CompensationBase salary range: $40,000 – $50,000 USD per year, depending on experience and location.This is a full-time remote position, paid on a bi-weekly payroll schedule of 26 pay periods per year.A performance bonus may be offered in addition based on company and individual performance.What We OfferFull-time remote positionBi-weekly paychecksPaid trainingPTOPaid holidaysHigh-growth environmentLong-term career growth opportunitiesCollaborative and mission-driven team cultureOpportunity to directly impact the student, coach, and family experience through product developmentHow to ApplyTo be considered, please submit:Your resumeApplication questionnaire responsesA short video introduction, recommended under 2 minutesAny relevant portfolio, product documentation sample, case study, or example of product work, if availableWe are excited to learn more about you 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