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# Senior Product Manager (Mandarin Speaker) at Kira

- **Company:** Kira
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kira/3a5a3143-06c6-4aa1-bc47-26e481846eb4

## Job description

Kira is transforming how people learn by using AI to empower teachers to deliver personalized learning at scale. We’re backed by top investors and driven by a team that is deeply passionate about using technology to change education. As our Senior Product Manager, you’ll own an entire problem domain end-to-end—from strategy to execution to continuous iteration. You’ll work closely with our team in Beijing as well as our co-founders to build the future of Kira. You’ll work across engineering, design, and GTM to define the roadmap and deliver high-quality features at a fast cadence. This role is perfect for someone who’s scrappy, low ego, decisive, and obsessive about getting real product into users’ hands and make a meaningful impact on educational outcomes for students.

## What You’ll Do

- Own your product area from discovery and requirements to launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Translate ambiguous problems into clear product strategies, roadmaps, and specs.
- Work deeply across the stack: frontend UX, backend systems, and AI/ML components.
- Collaborate tightly with engineering to break down work, unblock teams, and ship quickly.
- Use data, user research, and intuition to drive prioritization decisions.
- Rally cross-functional stakeholders around a clear vision while keeping execution crisp.
- Drive a culture of fast learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain high product quality while being scrappy and pragmatic in a startup environment.

## What We’re Looking For

- Fluent in Mandarin
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally with startup or zero-to-one experience.
- Strong technical fluency: comfortable discussing architecture, data pipelines, model behavior, and UX tradeoffs.
- Proven track record of owning a domain and launching complex products at high velocity.
- Ability to work across frontend, backend, and AI teams with credibility and empathy.
- Exceptional execution skills: you keep teams aligned, focused, and shipping.
- Low-ego collaborator who values clarity, resilience, and teamwork more than titles.
- Experience with AI/ML products (LLMs, copilots, workflow automation, or similar) is a major plus.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, resource-constrained Series A environment.

## What We Offer

- $180,000–$220,000 salary + meaningful equity
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee
- Daily lunch credit through DoorDash in office + free DashPass to use anytime for work or personal use
- Wellhub Membership: 100% company-paid access to premium gym networks (Orangetheory, SoulCycle), 60+ wellness apps (Headspace, MyFitnessPal, Apple Fitness+), and 1:1 coaching sessions spanning fitness, mental health, nutrition, and sleep
- 401(k) matching
- Pet friendly office 🐶

## Equal Opportunity Employer

At Kira, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Background Check Kira will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.

## About Kira

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kira is an AI-native operating system for K-12 education that replaces the entire teaching and learning tech stack by unifying curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention in one end-to-end platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021 (LinkedIn cites 2022; company career page shows foundational milestones starting in 2021)
- **Founders**: Andrea Pasinetti (Co-founder, CEO), Jagriti Agrawal (Co-founder, VP of AI), Andrew Ng (Chairman)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: K-12 Education Technology (EdTech); AI in Education
- **Target customers**: K-12 school districts, schools, and educational institutions across the United States (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To create an AI-native learning platform that empowers educators, accelerates student learning, and streamlines school operations — making AI in education "actually work, not just as a buzzword, but as a true force for progress" [kira-learning.com/about](https://www.kira-learning.com/about).

## Products & Services
- **Kira 2.0 (The AI Operating System for Education)**: A fully interactive, end-to-end AI platform that replaces the entire K-12 teaching and learning software stack. It combines curriculum creation, lesson planning, grading, feedback, tutoring, translation, analytics, and student support into one system. Key capabilities include:
  - **Assessment and Mastery**: Real-time student response tracking that drives dynamic grading and feedback.
  - **Intervention and MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support)**: Automated identification of gaps and targeted support within instruction.
  - **Multilingual and Special Populations**: Adaptable instruction for ELLs, IEPs, and diverse learners without lowering expectations.
  - **Curriculum and Course Creation**: AI generation of full, standards-aligned courses for any subject or grade level.
  - **Career and Workforce Pathways**: CTE and AI pathways for modern career readiness.
  - **Flexible Learning Models**: Support for virtual programs, credit recovery, and staffing gaps.
- **All offerings are SaaS**, delivered as a cloud-based platform that integrates with existing district infrastructure (LMSs, curriculum).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: USD $22.5 million across three rounds.
- **Annual Revenue**: Approximately USD $1.0 million (as of latest available data) [linkedin.com/company/kira-learning](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kira-learning).
- **Notable Investors**:
  - **New Enterprise Associates (NEA)** (led Series A)
  - **AI Fund** (led by Andrew Ng; led Pre-Seed and Seed)
  - **Rick Yang** (Partner, Head of Technology at NEA, serves on board)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **68.3% year-over-year**, now at approximately **43 employees**.
  - Operates in **6 countries** (United States, Togo, China, Morocco, Netherlands, United Kingdom).
  - 17 active job postings (monthly job post growth of +13.3%, yearly +54.5%).
  - LinkedIn follower count grew **55.5% year-over-year**.
  - Recent hires include a Design Director, Senior Product Manager, and AI Learning Scientist.

## Competitive Advantages
- **"One System" Architecture**: Unlike most EdTech tools (lesson planners, grading systems, LMS, intervention tools) that are separate, Kira replaces the entire stack with a single, coherent platform, eliminating handoffs and reducing district operational overhead.
- **Built-in Differentiation at Scale**: The AI adapts instruction for IEPs, ELLs, and interventions without requiring teachers to rebuild materials.
- **Standards-Aligned & Explainable**: All rubrics, logic, and adaptations are visible and explainable to teachers, with FERPA and COPPA compliance built in.
- **Founded by World-Class AI Experts**: Chairman Andrew Ng (co-founder of Coursera, former Chief Scientist at Baidu, co-founder of Google Brain) and co-founder Jagriti Agrawal (AI leader) provide unmatched credibility and AI talent access.
- **Enterprise-Grade Compliance**: Designed for districts, with student data remaining under district control.

## Strategic Focus
- **Replace Fragmented Tool Sprawl**: The company’s core message is that schools need one system, not more disconnected AI tools. They are actively positioning Kira 2.0 as the solution to "tool sprawl."
- **Scale to More Districts**: With $22.5M in funding, the team is expanding sales (Account Executives, Regional Sales Director), customer success (VP of Customer Success, Implementation Specialists), and engineering to onboard more districts.
- **Book of Business Expansion**: Focus on moving from supplemental tool to full-stack district replacement, absorbing more of the instructional tech stack over time.
- **International Expansion**: Already operating in 6 countries, with a remote office in El Salvador and presence in Togo, Morocco, and others.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: The company is dedicated to fundamentally transforming K-12 education with AI — a clear, tangible mission that directly affects teachers and students.
- **Cutting-Edge AI Work**: Engineers and scientists work on real-time mastery models, adaptive tutoring, and large-scale AI-driven curriculum generation — not just a thin ChatGPT wrapper.
- **Strong Founding Team & Backing**: Backed by NEA and AI Fund, led by Andrew Ng, providing stability and deep AI expertise.
- **Office Locations & Hybrid Policy**:
  - Physical offices in **San Francisco**, **New York**, **Los Angeles**, and **Palo Alto**.
  - Hybrid working model: roles list as "Hybrid" (some require on-site presence, others remote).
  - Remote roles also available (e.g., Implementation Specialist in El Salvador).
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company grew headcount by 68% in the last year and is actively hiring across engineering (Senior Backend, Senior Frontend, Quality/Automation), product (Senior PM, PM), design (Design Director), marketing (Senior Manager Product Marketing, Demand Gen), and sales (AE, Director of Revenue Operations).
- **Engineering Culture**: "Focus, speed, and quality" — the team describes themselves as "builders at heart" and "relentlessly focused on quality and impact" [kira-learning.com/about](https://www.kira-learning.com/about).
- **Notable Roles Open**: Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Infrastructure Focus), Software Engineering Intern, AI Learning Scientist, Account Executive, Director of Teaching & Learning.

## Sources
1. [kira-learning.com (Official Website)](https://www.kira-learning.com/)
2. [kira-learning.com/about (Company About Page)](https://www.kira-learning.com/about)
3. [Built In - Kira Learning Careers, Perks + Culture](https://builtin.com/company/kira-learning)
4. [LinkedIn - Kira (Kira Learning, Inc.)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kira-learning)
5. [Kira Learning Careers Page (Jobs)](https://kira-learning.com/jobs)

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