Product Owner, Learnosity
Learning assessment API
Open for applications
Learning assessment API
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance education and learning worldwide with best-in-class technology.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years experience working in a product owner role with agile development teams (experience working with the Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe, or similar will be an advantage)
- A customer-focused mindset
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage diverse stakeholders
- The ability to motivate engineering teams to create best-in-class software solutions
- The ability to solve complex problems and make difficult decisions and be comfortable working with data, have the ability to gather relevant data, and make data-driven decisions
What the job involves
- As part of the wider Product Management team, reporting to the Product Owner Team Lead for our Questionmark-branded product lines, you will work directly with developers organized into agile scrum teams to ensure that the teams’ backlogs are aligned with the needs of the business and with our customers
- Working alongside Product Managers, Designers, and System Architects, you will be responsible for ensuring that teams understand the product vision and implement it effectively
- You will be a customer advocate, with a Design Thinking approach you will contribute to the design and development of new features, using personas and journey maps to enable the agile teams to create solutions that meet customer needs
- You will play a pivotal role in synchronized planning events that are used to agree priorities and commitments for each planning interval with agile teams that are organized across multiple time zones
- You will drive the creation of user stories, clarify the details, and assist with breaking down the work and managing dependencies
- During planning events you will prioritize the agile teams’ backlogs and ensure time is allocated for enabler stories, technical debt, and bug fixing, balancing the needs of customers with internal stakeholders
- You will work with the agile teams on a day-to-day basis to ensure that their priorities remain aligned to the agreed objectives. You will help identify problems that need to be solved and prioritize those that are most valuable
- You will accept stories as complete, including validating acceptance criteria and holding teams to account with respect to product quality
- You will take part in agile team ceremonies
- You will work closely with customers and other stakeholders to ensure continuous feedback
- You will monitor progress, risks, and dependencies and communicate them to relevant stakeholders and leadership
- Working with the other members of the Product Management team, you will also contribute to the Learnosity Product Vision and Roadmap
- You will communicate the product vision and roadmap to the agile development teams
Our take
The education technology industry is worth around a quarter of a trillion dollars and is only set to grow as radical new technologies like AI accelerate digitalisation. Increasingly, education providers are becoming aware of the cost savings, improved education outcomes and rapid scalability of online learning, and a plethora of startups have sprung into existence to provide technological solutions to make this a possibility.
Learnosity, founded in the late 00s, aims to take part in this shift by providing assessment APIs for educational product developers. This allows products to be shipped within weeks rather than months or years and avoids the significant expense and expertise requirements of building assessment and reporting systems from the ground up.
Learnosity's customers include the likes of Pearson, Cambride University Press and PowerSchool, and it has over 40 million learners using its products. With its 2021 acquisition of Questionmark, an online assessments and proctoring company, Learnosity aims to increase its marketing reach and cement its leadership in the educational assessment space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2018
$18.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $18.8m
Company benefits
- Working from home
- Flexible working hours
- Generous healthcare coverage
- Company 401k plan
- Paid vacation, personal and sick days
- Career support
- Subsidized gym membership, internet and cell phone plans
Company values
- We live to learn
- We aim higher
- We do the right thing
- Our success is better shared
Company HQ
North City, Dublin, Ireland
Articles
Leadership
Gavin Cooney
(CEO)Background in web development.
Mark Lynch
(CTO)Part of AirTree's Explorer Program.
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