About the role
Our mission at Ello is simple and urgent: maximize the potential of every child, everywhere. We're building the world's first AI teacher to close that gap: one that listens, speaks, adapts, and inspires, just like the best human educators. Our first product, Read with Ello, is already helping tens of thousands of kids each week learn to read. It listens as they read aloud, offers support when they stumble, and generates magical, personalized stories. It works, and kids love it. Now, we're scaling that success into something even bigger: a complete AI teacher that can help children learn far beyond reading. Our new app combines language, speech, and memory to deliver interactive learning for kids worldwide; check it out here . We're moving fast: we ship weekly, test directly with kids, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI in education. With the resources of the world's top investors and the heart of a public benefit corporation, we're here to revolutionize how children learn globally. Featured on TIME's Best Inventions and Fortune's Change the World, Ello is a small, mission-driven team taking on one of the most important challenges of our time: to democratize education.
About
the Role We’re hiring a Product Manager in San Francisco who can work at the intersection of technical engineering and exceptional design. You’ll own some of our hardest product problems, partnering closely with engineers and designers to turn frontier AI capabilities into experiences that feel simple, intuitive, and even magical for children. The best PMs for this role think like engineers, care like designers, and obsess over the child using the product. They’re equally comfortable debating system architecture, refining interaction details, and making difficult product tradeoffs that turn complex technology into deceptively simple experiences. As we scale, we need more capacity, more clarity, and more taste – this person brings all three. You'll partner closely with our engineers on the hardest and most exciting parts of the product, turn fuzzy possibilities into a concrete plan, and ship experiences that feel deceptively simple on the surface while solving incredibly complex problems underneath. One month you might be inventing a new way for children to learn math with an AI teacher. The next, you might be redesigning how the AI teacher responds when a child gets stuck. In every case, your job is to bridge what’s technically possible with what feels effortless for a child. You'll work across product, design, engineering, research, and leadership in San Francisco and Nairobi. You'll own meaningful parts of the product experience, from identifying user needs and product hypotheses, to testing with children and families, to shipping improvements that make the product better and more joyful to use. We care more about the quality of your experience than the exact number of years on your resume. We're looking for someone who clearly learns fast and has the drive to grow into whatever