About Echo360
Mission-driven, forward-thinking, research-minded and open. We invite you to learn more about us and our partners.
Our team is dedicated to helping educators around the globe develop future generations of leaders, scholars and visionaries. We work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, where we are driven by our passion for education and learning. At Echo360, we value innovation, foster collaboration, and encourage employees to forge their own path. We work hard, but we also haven’t forgotten how to have fun.
Job Openings
Are you ready to transform education?
While finding employees who meet the specific requirements of a job is important, our team shines because of a shared set of highly-regarded personal characteristics. At Echo360 we are:
Passionate about education.
Self-motivated and intelligent with the stamina to work in a high-performance environment.
Collaborative and work as a team.
Dedicated to servicing our customers and exceeding their expectations.
Friendly and fun - we work hard and play hard.
Dedicated to our individual success as well as the success of the organization.
Open to learning and to thinking outside the box.
To apply for any of the positions listed here please forward your resume and cover letter to HR@echo360.com and include the job title in the subject line. No agencies please. For US-based positions, candidates must be local and eligible to work in the United States for any employer.
Echo360 is proud to be an EOE/M/F/V/D employer.
Open Positions
Location
Reston, VA; Atlanta, GA; or Remote
About the Job
The Product Manager will have the opportunity and autonomy to drive the market analysis, roadmap, execution, and sales support for Echo360’s LMS integrations and analytics products. Within our agile development process, you will be defining and prioritizing requirements, defining the product vision, owning the user experience, understanding the market and competitors, and working closely with engineering across the full product lifecycle. The Product Manager role requires experience with the Agile development cycle, story development, use case development and an ability to work seamlessly with customers, prospects, marketing, sales, and vendors, while still being highly available to the development team.
Location: Preferably, the Product Manager will be located in either the Reston, VA office or the Atlanta, GA office, but we are open to considering remote candidates (East Coast preferred).
Responsibilities
- Drive the product strategy and roadmap related to Echo360’s LMS integrations and analytics across multiple workflows
- Coordinate with customer success, sales, marketing and product teams to provide consistency and deep analytic understanding of Echo360’s data solutions
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and ensure clear communication and coordination of requirements to the business and development teams
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience, and drive growth
- Manage and prioritize the product backlogs
- Participate in release planning and all sprint ceremonies
- Know intimately the competition and our marketplace
- Lead within the company with minimal supervision
- Demonstrate your mastery of product management techniques and best practices
- Be a servant-leader within the company, cross-training, and supporting colleagues
About You
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years Product Manager experience with demonstrated success defining and launching user facing products
- 2+ years agile development experience with demonstrated experience in story and use case creation
- Self-sufficient and a self-starter, knowing how to build just enough structure and process to keep things moving in the right direction
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Careful and flexible thought on prioritization, tradeoffs, and the user experience
- Must be comfortable with a small amount of travel (approximately 20%)
- Experience with SaaS solutions is a plus
- Experience within the higher education/education technology market is a plus
Echo360 helps higher education, companies and professional associations improve student success by driving deeper engagement with classroom and event content. Echo360 combines the industry-leading video platform with engagement tools, assessment and analytics to generate improved learning outcomes during class sessions and provide students 24/7 access to classroom discussion, presentation materials, and the recorded lecture itself. Our employees take pride in their consistent application of innovation and best practices and their ongoing dedication to the highest standards of software quality.
Echo360 is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage all qualified and motivated individuals to apply.
Location
Atlanta, GA or Remote
About the Job
You’ll be joining a small and talented group of engineers building out Echo360’s web platform and applications. As a Software Engineer on the Active Learning Platform team, you will work on products from inception, through development, and ultimately to testing and release. Being a relatively small team, you will have the freedom and opportunity to help direct the shape and evolution of our technical architecture.
At Echo360 we are developing a culture and set of core values designed to enable our engineers to build the best technology possible. We value productivity over process, but never at the expense of quality. We obsess over code quality, test coverage, and peer review. These methods allow Echo360 to develop industry leading solutions while competing with companies that have much larger engineering teams.
We’re looking for talented engineers with the ability to work on multiple layers within a system. A healthy obsession for scalability and data processing problems doesn’t hurt. Flexibility and willingness to work on various aspects of a feature and with various technologies is a must.
We all have opinions on how to improve education…..help come make these ideas a reality. At Echo360, the products you develop will help millions of students at hundreds of colleges and universities across the world.
Reports to: Software Architect, Team Lead
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure to manage curriculums across hundreds of schools
- Develop scalable systems that can manage millions of concurrent students watching millions of hours of lecture content
- Help maintain the backbone of the Echo360 platform that keeps our various services in sync and working together
- Actively and productively contribute to the full Agile process
- Stay current with relevant technologies
- Build high-quality deliverables (code, test, hardware, schemas) quickly with minimal direction
- Think creatively and lead the resolution of problems facing the team
About You
- Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
- Experience with React
- 3-7 years related professional experience in software engineering
- Experience with Scala and AWS data services is a plus
- A passion for building scalable and performant web systems
- Outstanding verbal and written communications skills
- A Well-organized self-starter
Echo360 helps higher education, companies and professional associations improve student success by driving deeper engagement with classroom and event content. Echo360 combines the industry-leading video platform with engagement tools, assessment and analytics to generate improved learning outcomes during class sessions and provide students 24/7 access to classroom discussion, presentation materials, and the recorded lecture itself. Our employees take pride in their consistent application of innovation and best practices and their ongoing dedication to the highest standards of software quality.
Echo360 is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage all qualified and motivated individuals to apply.
Benefits and Perks
In addition to competitive salaries and bonuses to eligible employees, our comprehensive benefits package reflects the values and culture of our company while supporting the needs of our team members.
Exceptional health benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellness reimbursement.
Employee Assistance Program for other things that get in the way of life.
Domestic partner benefits.
Flexible work schedule and telework options.
Tuition assistance.
Casual dress environment.
Unlimited caffeine and weekly company catered breakfasts.
Your choice of Mac or PC.
Flex spending for health and dependent care.
Company paid life and disability insurance.
Three(3) weeks of paid vacation plus floating and personal holidays and sick days.
Company-sponsored volunteer opportunities plus paid time off for volunteer work.
Generous maternity/paternity leave.
On-site gym with showers and locker rooms.
Company-sponsored food and social events.
Our international employee salaries and benefits are competitive and customized by location.