Head of Product

Matrix Digital is an edtech platform building learning products for students across both Bharat and India, from small towns to big cities. We build tools for K-12 (primary, middle and high school) that genuinely make a difference for the students, parents and teachers we serve.

The company is led by people with deep experience building edtech products, and our core team comes from top IITs, IIMs and ISB. We are funded, with a strong runway for the next three years. That means we can spend our time building the right things instead of chasing the next round.

We have strong partnerships with established on-ground institutions. So whatever you build will be used by thousands of real students and teachers from day one, and you will hear what works in days, not quarters.

What we are building now: test and performance-analysis tools, AI-assisted question and solution tools, student and parent-facing websites and apps, and the systems academic teams run on every day.

This is not a strategy role, and it is not a people-manager role with a product title. You will own our products end to end. You will know every screen, use them yourself the way a student or teacher would, find what is broken, write the spec, test the build before it ships, and check whether it worked after. Over time you will hire and train a small team of product managers under you.

We are early. There is no product playbook here yet, and building one is part of the job.

• Learn every product we run, in depth. Use them as a student, a parent and a teacher would. Keep a live list of what is broken and what is missing.
• Own the roadmap. Decide what gets built next, and say no to most things.
• Spend real time with teachers, academic directors and campus heads at our partner campuses. Expect to spend 4–5 days a month outside Jaipur. Many of the people you meet there are non-technical and very busy. They will not sit through long meetings, so you will need to get what you need in 15 focused minutes.
• Write clear, short specs that a developer can build from without a follow-up call.
• Test releases yourself before they go out. Track usage and outcomes after they do.
• Work closely with our development partner, an external firm that builds much of our technology. You will not control their staffing or timelines, and you will still need to get good, on-time work out of them.
• Hire two to three product managers over your first year and train them properly.
• Use our data (test results, usage, enquiries, feedback) to decide what matters.

• Have at least 4 years of hands-on product management experience, ideally at a startup or on a product built from scratch.
• Can show us things you personally shipped, with the numbers behind them.
• Are comfortable working without fixed process, clear answers or a big team around you.
• Have no ego about the size of a task. Testing a release, sitting at the back of a classroom or rewriting an FAQ are all part of the job.
• Work patiently with people of very different skill levels, from senior faculty to first-job developers.
• Communicate simply and clearly, in writing and in person, whether you are talking to a teacher, a parent or a developer.
• Understand enough technology to have a real conversation with engineers: APIs, databases, basic SQL, and the AI tools you already use every day.

• Experience in edtech, K-12, test prep or consumer products for Tier-2/3 India.
• A feel for what really matters to teachers, students and parents, and what is just nice to have.
• Experience with LLM-based product features.

Our Jaipur office, on-site. You will travel to our partner campuses for 4–5 days a month, and more often in your first three months, because that is where our users are: the students, teachers and academic teams. This is not a remote role.

• Real ownership of products used by thousands of students from day one, and a direct line to the founders.
• Stability most early startups cannot offer: we are funded with three years of runway, and we extend it every year, so you always have three years of visibility ahead.
• Competitive pay, plus a significant performance bonus.
• The chance to build the product function and team from the start.
• A sensible pace and respect for your personal time. We value a focused 45-hour week over an exhausted 80-hour one.

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