Elizabeth Walbridge
About Elizabeth Walbridge
Elizabeth Walbridge is a Senior Product Manager at Great Minds, where she collaborates with curriculum advisors and development teams to enhance educational applications. With a background in education and production, she has held various roles in organizations such as GBH, MIT Media Lab, and Choate Rosemary Hall.
Work at Great Minds
Elizabeth Walbridge has served as a Senior Product Manager at Great Minds since 2021. In this role, she collaborates closely with curriculum advisors and subject matter experts to understand content goals. She effectively communicates these goals to development teams to ensure alignment and clarity. Elizabeth leads the planning of go-to-market strategies for new feature releases and updates for educational applications and websites. She also supervises sprint planning, backlog grooming, release schedules, QA cycles, and prioritization of fixes and user stories across multiple teams and products.
Previous Experience
Prior to her current position, Elizabeth Walbridge held various roles at GBH. She worked as a Production Assistant from 2016 to 2017, a Coordinating Producer for four months in 2021, an Associate Producer from 2019 to 2021, and a Production Coordinator from 2017 to 2019. Additionally, she was a Graduate Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab from 2015 to 2016 and a Research Assistant at Harvard Kennedy School in 2016. Her teaching experience includes positions at Choate Rosemary Hall and Phillips Academy.
Education and Expertise
Elizabeth Walbridge earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and English from Boston University, completing her studies from 2007 to 2011. She furthered her education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she obtained a Master of Education in Technology, Innovation, and Education in 2016. Her academic background supports her expertise in educational product management and user research strategies.
Digital User Research Strategy
In her role at Great Minds, Elizabeth developed a digital user-research strategy aimed at enhancing feedback on usability and content for student-facing digital interactives. This initiative focuses on improving the overall user experience by gathering and analyzing user feedback, which informs future product development and updates.