Senior Product Manager

General Description:

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for the success of their product features, from overall product alignment to specific product requirements through to delivery to the market and end-of-life. The selected candidate will have a strong background in software product management and be a cross-functional leader, strategic thinker, continuous learner, and active contributor with the proven ability to deliver high-quality software solutions to the market.

This role will be instrumental in executing on an existing roadmap as well as contributing to future strategic planning.

Major Responsibilities (How Will I Make an Impact?):

• Exercise curiosity and empathy in order to build products that our customers love. Initiate and involve both internal and external stakeholders in user empathy and discovery sessions.
• Define a vision for your products and/or features that reinforce a persuasive vision of the future of learning.
• Create strategy for your product or features which identifies lucrative market opportunities, grows the product portfolio and drives the go-to-market execution.
• Define end-to-end tactics, milestones and success metrics that are easily understood and measurable. ​
• Actively develop and maintain a data-driven product roadmap
• Effectively translate the product vision and roadmap into product requirements for initiatives, including functional needs, supported use cases/workflows constraints, and success criteria
• Lead the complete product development life cycle in an agile environment from developing use cases to product delivery in market, to post release and end of life.
• Conduct feasibility analysis (ROI, etc.), business case development and build/buy/partner evaluations
• Clearly communicate the larger product vision and specific product requirements across the organization, from senior executives to agile team members 
• Represent D2L thought leadership at industry events.
• Help us continuously improve the product management practice at D2L.
• Be a mentor to other product managers and assist with hiring and performance management.

Competencies (What you’ll bring to the role):

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a fast-paced technical environment in the role of Product Manager.
• Excellent communication and customer-conversation skills including demo-god and public-speaking experience. 
• Self-motivated and can operate and execute with a sense of urgency, discipline, decisiveness and focus. 
• Proven ability to meet or exceed assigned targets, budgets and deadlines. 
• Proven ability to confidently and clearly communicate both technical and business topics to a variety of groups, including customers, D2L senior leadership team, designers, architects and developers. 
• Strong interest or experience in Competency Based Education & Skills Based Learning in Corporate.
• Has/is able to craft a strong business, product, market, and customer point of view 
• Experience defining and communicating outcomes, scope, acceptance criteria
• Experience assessing the scope and effort required to deliver required software solutions
• A strong understanding of current web, data, cloud and mobile technologies
• Ability to actively manage competing priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability to take a leadership role when making data driven decisions
• Individual must be a creative thinker, confident and able to express complex ideas in an articulate, concise manner – especially to senior executives.
• Prior experience leading technical and business teams
• Agile planning methods and practices
• A sharp wit and finely tuned sense of humor desired

Education Recommendations:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related fields of study.