Product Owner Bingel
Bingel DC is a customer-facing application that supports both teachers and students to meet individual learning goals, prepare lessons, provide instruction, practice and take exams, and monitor progress. Personalized learning with adaptive technology enables every student to progress at their own level and pace. Elaborative feedback and exercises support students and allow teachers to focus on coaching and doing what they do best.
About the role
As a Product Owner, you will bridge user needs, business goals, and technical delivery by supporting a defined product area and working with a team to translate complex requirements into actionable backlog items. Drawing on strong analytical and collaboration skills, you will investigate user and business needs, define functional and technical requirements, and work closely with UX designers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure scalable, accessible, and data-informed solutions. This role combines hands-on product ownership with a deep understanding of educational workflows, making it ideal for someone transitioning from a business analysis or technical background into product management.
Your key responsibilities
- Help to manage your team’s backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business goals.
- Investigate and analyze business and user needs, translating them into structured requirements.
- Collaborate with the Team Lead, UX Designers. Developers and stakeholders to ensure solutions address user needs and educational workflows.
- Create and maintain clear documentation (requirements, flows, diagrams) to support shared understanding across teams.
- Support backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions.
- Support the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of production issues and technical debt to maintain product stability and long-term quality.
At Sanoma Learning, we all share a deep-rooted passion for education and are committed to support teachers to help all students to reach their potential, so they can be at their best in class. We are proud of the impact we make together across Europe, local as well as international. As our teams and the scope of our impact grows, so do our opportunities for us to learn from each other – across country borders and areas of expertise. With over 2500 colleagues, we work on seamlessly integrated print, digital and blended learning solutions to help teachers and schools develop the talents of every child. Our people are passionate and committed and always willing to go the extra mile for students, teachers, schools, our shareholders and each other.
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?
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What we expect from you
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Ability to investigate and clarify business/user needs and impacts
- Skilled in stakeholder alignment and facilitation
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria
- Fluent in Dutch and English (spoken and written)
