Instructor, Product Management

Meet Circuit Stream

Why You’ll Love This Role

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead two engaging, instructor-led online classes each week for adult learners, using a learner-centered and project-based approach.
• Translate product management frameworks into practical decisions, trade-offs, examples, and exercises drawn from real product work.
• Teach core topics including product lifecycle management, strategy, discovery, customer research, road-mapping, prioritization, user experience, stakeholder management, growth, analytics, experimentation, and responsible AI.
• Demonstrate how product managers use tools such as Jira, Figma, SQL, Mixpanel, ChatGPT, and other AI-enabled product tools.
• Guide learners through in-class challenges, assignments, portfolio projects, and a final capstone project.
• Provide timely, specific, and constructive feedback that helps students improve both their thinking and their deliverables.
• Share real product wins, failures, tensions, and lessons learned—not sanitized theory.
• Create an online classroom where working professionals feel comfortable asking questions, challenging assumptions, and learning from one another.
• Prepare thoroughly for each class and adapt delivery based on student comprehension, participation, and feedback.
• Mark assignments and projects consistently against established rubrics and academic standards.
• Collaborate with technical lab instructors, career coaches, curriculum staff, and program operations to create a connected learner experience.
• Communicate proactively about learner progress, attendance concerns, curriculum gaps, or anything that could improve course outcomes.
• Contribute feedback to the ongoing refinement of the curriculum so it remains current with industry practice and emerging AI capabilities.

What We’re Looking For

• At least three years of hands-on product management experience, with direct ownership of products, features, or meaningful product outcomes.
• You can clearly explain what you personally owned, the decisions you made, the trade-offs involved, and the results—not only what your broader team delivered.
• Experience launching, managing, or improving products in a technology company, startup, scale-up, enterprise, or similarly complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of product strategy, discovery, road-mapping, prioritization, Agile delivery, customer research, experimentation, analytics, and data-informed decision-making.
• Working familiarity with common product tools such as Jira, Figma, SQL, Mixpanel or similar analytics tools, and modern AI tools used in the product workflow.
• Confidence discussing AI product design, responsible AI, LLM capabilities and limitations, and how AI is changing the work of product managers.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, written communication, and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to make complex product concepts accessible without oversimplifying them.
• The maturity to give direct feedback while remaining encouraging, respectful, and focused on learner growth.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Design, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, but equivalent product experience will be considered.
• Previous teaching, facilitation, mentorship, coaching, workshop delivery, or team-development experience is strongly preferred.
• Availability for the full cohort schedule, including live classes, monthly technical labs, lesson preparation, marking, meetings, and student support.

Who This Is For

• A practicing or recently practicing product manager who enjoys helping others become better thinkers and decision-makers.
• Someone who can connect strategy to execution and explain how product decisions affect users, teams, technology, and business outcomes.
• A facilitator who asks strong questions, creates productive discussion, and gets learners actively involved.
• Someone comfortable teaching adult learners with different professional backgrounds, confidence levels, and career goals.
• A product leader who is open about mistakes, ambiguity, and trade-offs rather than pretending there is one perfect framework for every situation.
• Someone who takes ownership of the full learner experience, not only the hours spent teaching live classes.

Who This Is Not For

• If your product management experience is primarily theoretical or limited to observing other people own the product.
• If you want to deliver lectures but do not enjoy discussion, coaching, marking, or giving detailed feedback.
• If you rely heavily on jargon and cannot explain product concepts to beginners.
• If you believe one framework, methodology, or company’s way of working is universally correct.
• If you are not comfortable discussing data, experimentation, AI, and the evolving tools used by modern product teams.
• If you cannot reliably commit to the full cohort schedule from September 15, 2026 through February 23, 2027.
• If you need constant direction to prepare, communicate, or resolve routine classroom challenges.

Role Details

• Cohort dates: September 15, 2026 through February 23, 2027.
• Live class instruction: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-9:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
• Live technical labs: One Wednesday evening per month from 6:30-9:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
• Delivery: 100% online.
• Location: Open to candidates based in Canada. Preference may be given to candidates in Eastern Canada as most students will be based in Ontario due to the partnership with U of T for this course.
• Estimated commitment: Approximately 10-12 hours per week on average, including live teaching, preparation and assignment marking (this role does not include office hours or 1:1 tutoring).
• Training and onboarding: Availability is required before the cohort begins.
• Contract value: $8,500 for the full contract term of 21 weeks, consisting of ten semi-monthly payments of $650 and a final $2,000 completion payment.
• Performance: Instructors may be eligible for an end-of-contract performance bonus of $500 and will receive first consideration for future cohorts.

What’s In It For You

• The opportunity to help adult learners build the confidence and practical skills required to move into product management.
• A part-time contract designed to fit alongside a full-time role, consulting practice, or other professional commitments.
• The ability to teach remotely while building your profile as a product educator and mentor.
• A developed curriculum, instructor onboarding, program support, technical labs, and career services working alongside you.
• A community of instructors, industry professionals, and university partners to connect with and learn from.
• The chance to sharpen your own facilitation, leadership, mentorship, and product communication skills.

Ready to Apply?

• Tell us about a product, feature, or initiative you personally owned. What problem were you solving, what trade-offs did you make, and what happened?
• What product management concept do you believe is commonly taught poorly, and how would you explain it to a beginner?
• Why are you interested in teaching and mentoring adult learners?

Compensation

$1,300.00 - $1,400.00 per month