Product Manager of Sesame and Competence Lead
Come and be a part of the Sesame (Customer Identity and Access Management) team at Sanoma Learning, where our dedication lies in delivering an outstanding login experience and seamless access to digital material for both students and teachers. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with Sanoma Learning companies across Europe, optimizing internal processes, and ensuring a well-functioning ecosystem for delivery of digital products. Our team is driven by a strong passion for providing innovative solutions and enriching the educational experience for our teachers and students.
We are seeking a motivated and experienced ** Product Manager ** to join our team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in defining the roadmap and transforming Epics into Features and User Stories by collaborating with stakeholders in multiple countries. Your ability to lead multiple agile development teams, collaborate with various stakeholders, and deliver tangible business value will be key to your success.
Roughly 70% of this role will be focused on managing the product while the other 30% will be focused on managing product managers, product owners, and analysts within the Product Management competence group.
Your key product responsibilities
- Contributing to Sanoma Learning's long-term vision for our Customer Identity and Access Management offering.
- Manage and review the roadmap, ensuring alignment with Epics, while coordinating dependencies with other Product Managers.
- Collect and prioritize business requirements from stakeholders across multiple countries.
- Support product demos, showcasing the capabilities and benefits of our solutions.
- Team leadership of Product Owners, Business Analysts and 1-3 development teams using the Agile Scrum methodology.
About Us
As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you can show the best of yourself. The working environment is result-oriented and flexible, with a focus on collaboration. You will be part of a highly skilled and experienced international team in an open and informal setting where initiative is expected and rewarded.
About Sanoma Learning
How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.
Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.
So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?
As a Competence Lead:
- People Management: Manage the people within the Product Management competence group, including hiring, firing, and performance evaluations.
- Competence Development: Responsible for Product Management competence development and knowledge sharing within competence group members.
- Professional Standards: Support the Product Management Competence Owner in defining professional standards and work methodology within the Product Management competence.
- Problem Solving: Participate in solving complex problems within the Product Management competence, with mandate and decision rights on the “how.”
- Coaching: Coach team members to learn and grow, encouraging and supporting career development within Sanoma Learning.
- Knowledge Sharing: Assist in setting up interaction and knowledge sharing processes among Product Management competence group members in different teams and across domains.
- Thought Leadership: Act as a thought leader within product management to guide, motivate, and inspire competence group members.
Job requirements
- Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and product management skills, delivering successful outcomes.
- Technical insight and understanding in how various products and services integrate, while maintaining great usability for our teachers and students.
- Be a strong team player with experience working in a matrix environment, promoting effective collaboration across teams and products.
- Possess a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Manager or in other relevant positions.
- Display knowledge and proficiency in agile practices, preferably Scrum.
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of defining clear development stories tailored to diverse audiences.
- Possess fluent communication skills in written and spoken English.
- Previous experience in the educational industry is a significant advantage, demonstrating an understanding of the sector's unique challenges and opportunities.
Personal Attributes:
- Proactive and positive “can-do” attitude, demonstrating initiative and resilience.
- Strong organizational skills, adept at managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Self-motivated, consistently seeking opportunities for improvement and innovation.
