Senior Impact Lead
About the role
Role Overview
As Impact Lead, you’ll serve as a strategic partner within cross-functional product teams, helping ensure products and services are grounded in evidence, informed by educator voice, and aligned to meaningful outcomes for educators and children. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, and other stakeholders to translate research, educator insights, and data into actionable recommendations that strengthen product quality, user experience, and impact. This role requires strong judgment, systems thinking, adaptability, and the ability to influence complex cross-functional work through expertise, collaboration, and relationship-building. The ideal candidate is comfortable leveraging AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to improve workflows, support decision-making, strengthen educator supports, and scale insight generation while applying critical thinking around quality and impact.
Role Responsibilities
Impact Strategy & Evaluation
- Define measurable product outcomes grounded in child development and behavior change science
- Develop impact frameworks and support analyses that evaluate product effectiveness and inform continuous improvement
- Monitor and synthesize engagement, implementation, feedback, and behavior change data to guide iteration and strategic recommendations
- Support pilots, experimentation, and testing efforts and translate findings into actionable insights
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape AI-enabled and technology-supported experiences aligned to educator needs and intended outcomes
- Apply sound judgment to evaluate tradeoffs, implementation considerations, and impact implications across diverse user contexts
- Contribute an educator and impact lens to roadmap discussions, prioritization, and product decisions
- Navigate ambiguity and synthesize complex inputs to support alignment and informed decision-making
Content Leadership & Learning Expertise
- Write, curate, and refine evidence-based content and learning experiences for educator audiences
- Ensure content is practical, engaging, and responsive to varied educator contexts and needs
- Serve as a subject matter expert in educator practice, child development, and behavior change
- Identify emerging research, trends, and educator needs that may inform future product improvements
Educator-Centered Design & Feedback
- Support systems and processes that elevate educator voice throughout the product lifecycle
- Collaborate on user research, journey mapping, and solution validation efforts
- Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable recommendations
- Build strong cross-functional relationships to ensure educator needs and implementation realities remain central to decision-making
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to embed impact rigor into product development and strategic decisions