Associate Director, Product Owner - Learning Experience & Content

GSK; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking an Associate Director, Product Owner for Learning Experience & Content to maximise value across the HR product portfolio, including Degreed and learning providers. You will translate business needs into a prioritised backlog and lead delivery with agile teams, ensuring secure, compliant, and usable solutions aligned to strategy.

This role follows a hybrid pattern with 2–3 days in the Bengaluru office.

Qualifications

• Define and refine product outcomes within guardrails set by senior leadership.
• Prioritize backlog with epics, features and user stories based on value, cost and risk.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible technology changes.
• Guide delivery teams (APOs, engineers, testers) to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Maintain product performance dashboards tracking adoption, velocity, stability and UX signals.
• Ensure security, data protection and regulatory/compliance considerations are addressed.

Responsibilities

• Understand functional needs with stakeholders and refine requirements within guardrails.
• Own the product backlog with well-defined epics, features and user stories.
• Lead prioritisation based on value, cost, risk, and capacity.
• Guide delivery teams through design, testing, release and adoption.
• Ensure security, compliance, and architectural alignment across solutions.
• Maintain dashboards to measure adoption, throughput, defects, and user experience.

Skills

Product delivery leadership

Backlog management

Stakeholder collaboration

Agile SAFe

Requirements definition

Risk and cost trade-offs

Delivery team guidance

Communication & influencing

Security & compliance awareness

Data-informed decision making

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Degreed

SuccessFactors

Workday

Phenom

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Purpose

The Associate Director, Product Owner - Learning Experience & Content is responsible for maximising the value of their HR Product Portfolio (including Degreed and Learning Content Providers) by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the HR product lifecycle, within strategic and financial guardrails set by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech. They work closely with business stakeholders to define outcomes and ensure delivered functionality is usable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to product strategy. The Learning Experience & Content Product Owner guides delivery teams to ensure requirements are clear, value-driven, and data-informed, while overseeing iterative delivery that improves product performance, adoption, and operational readiness. This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2-3 days per week in the office, with the specific pattern agreed between the successful candidate and their manager based on role and team needs.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities, within guardrails set by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech. Own and manage the Product backlog (e.g. Jira, ADO etc), ensuring requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs (e.g., cost drivers, user volumes, risk/sensitivity, process impact, dependencies). Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity, escalating only where strategic trade-offs are required by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech d VP of HR Digital & Tech. Lead the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Associate Product Owners and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to architectural standards. Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist covering support model requirements, training needs, continuity planning, configuration/runbook documentation, release notes, and user onboarding. Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals (e.g., CSAT, SUS, completion rates), and support effort; use performance insights to drive continuous improvement. Ensure product changes follow required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes, obtaining approvals from relevant SMEs where required. Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies, contract/interface impacts, and sequencing needs to support interoperability and consistent business outcomes. Act as an escalation point for the HR Product team and business users on functional product issues, guiding decisions within agreed financial, risk, and architectural guardrails set by the SD, Head of Talent + L&D Digital & Tech and VP of HR Digital & Tech. Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product, promoting agile (i.e. SaFe, Scrum etc), iterative, value-driven, and data-led ways of working, including meaningful measurement of benefits and operational impact.

Required skills

• 15 to 19 years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.
• Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) and managing a product backlog.
• Knowledge of functional domains within Global Functions (e.g., HR, and familiarity with the technology platforms that enable them (e.g., Degreed, SuccessFactors, Workday, TechWolf, Phenom).
• Understanding of product performance measures and KPIs, with the ability to drive improvements in product adoption, cycle time, stability, support effort, and overall user experience.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.
• Demonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.
• Experience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle, from refinement and design through testing, release, and adoption.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements such as change control, security, data protection, and regulatory/compliance considerations.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.

Preferred skills

• Strong communication and influencing skills, able to explain technology constraints clearly and support stakeholders in making informed product decisions.
• Skilled in coaching and guiding Associate Product Owners and delivery team members to ensure requirements, documentation, and solutions meet business needs and compliance expectations.
• Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and improved user experience.
• Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements, ensuring product changes remain controlled, supportable, and compliant.
• Strong analytical mindset, able to weigh value, risk, complexity, and cost to make prioritisation decisions and sequence backlog items appropriately.
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced and fluid environment Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Skills Agile Methodology, Automation, Degreed (Platform), Design Thinking, DevOps, Digital Solutions, Learning Content Design, Learning Experience Platform (LXP), Phenom (Platform), Product Delivery, SAP SuccessFactors, User Experience (UX).

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale. People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK

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We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people.