Senior Product Manager - Createspace, Canada Based

d2l; Kuwait; On-site; KWD 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

D2L is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the success of Creator product features, from roadmap alignment through market delivery and end-of-life. You will lead with a strong software product management background and influence cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

The role focuses on executing an existing roadmap and shaping future strategy, collaborating with engineering, design, marketing, and customers to ensure market relevance and customer value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software product management experience.
• Strong business and technical skills with strategic thinking.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality software solutions to market.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the product roadmap for Creator products.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales stakeholders in discovery sessions.
• Translate strategy into detailed product requirements and success criteria.
• Lead the end-to-end agile product development lifecycle from concept to launch and sunset.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmapping

Agile development

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Go-to-market

AI tools

Job description

D2L is a cloud company that is modernizing education and building the Future of Work. The old models of teaching and learning are in the midst of the largest transformation in history, and D2L is at the heart of that fundamental shift.

New models of teaching and learning enable a personalized, student-centric experience - and deliver improved retention, engagement, satisfaction, and results for learners of all ages - in schools, campuses, and companies.

D2L is disrupting the way the world learns, by providing the next generation learning environment and solutions to engage and inspire learners. And most importantly, by giving customers a platform that is easy, flexible, and smart. No other company provides a solution as robust and innovative as D2L.

D2L has had a singular mission for 25 years and is dedicated to that same mission in the years ahead: to transform the way the world learns - and by doing so, we will help improve human potential globally.

Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team - yes, a real person looks at your resume! While we use AI tools internally to streamline tasks like meeting notes, summaries, and administrative work, these tools never rank resumes, make hiring decisions, or influence candidate evaluations.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Develop and maintain the product and feature roadmap for Creator products that consider business viability, value to the customer, feasibility and usability in collaboration with engineering and design
• Solicit inputs for your roadmap by collaborating with engineering, marketing, sales, customer engagement and other stakeholders that addresses pressing customer requirements;
• Work closely with the leadership and strategy teams to translate the organizational strategy, business/market requirements, product backlog into a product roadmap;
• Effectively translate the product vision and roadmap into product requirements for each initiative, including functional needs, supported use cases/workflows constraints, and success criteria;
• Lead the complete product development lifecycle in an agile environment from developing use cases to product delivery in market, to post release and end of life;
• Collaborate with engineering, design, functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met;
• Demonstrate the ability to drive product innovation, advocate for product direction and build new industry-leading creation products or services
• Ensure all the portfolio's release candidates meet product requirements;
• Collaborate with customers, Market Strategy, Architecture, Design, Engineering, PMO, Implementation, Support and Marketing teams throughout the product life cycle to ensure new solutions meet our business and market objectives;
• Develop and regularly maintain a data-driven product backlog to deliver on the product vision and roadmap. Regularly collect market input (customers, sales, service, competitive intelligence, etc.) and update the backlog accordingly;
• Conduct feasibility analysis (ROI, etc.), business case development and build/buy/partner evaluations;
• Represent D2L thought leadership at industry events.

Competencies

• Proven progress towards data-backed and measured business outcomes
• Enables, Informs, and Communicates with various teams across the organization
• Collaborates with development and design on features, prioritization, and defects

Skills

• Creates a strategy & vision for larger initiatives, smaller experiences, or smaller cross-cutting initiatives
• Creates roadmaps for tools or smaller experiences aligned to strategy
• Plans, prioritizes, and visualizes thin slices
• Go-To-Market planning
• Acumen with Artificial Intelligence Tools

Education and/or Job Knowledge or Skill Requirements

We are looking for a highly motivated, results-driven strategic thinker, who has strong business and technical skills. You should have demonstrated expertise in Product Management including product planning, market research, competitive analysis, product positioning, enablement, evangelism and product marketing. Typically candidates will have 8+ years' experience in software product management to