Director, Product Management

Summary

Join D2L, a leading EdTech company, as Director of Product Management for Integrations and Application Platform. You will lead the strategy and roadmap for D2L's next-generation integration platform, working with technical leaders, customers, and partners. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, enabling easy integrations with key systems, and fostering developer engagement. Success requires deep experience in EdTech integrations, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of delivering commercial success. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic and innovative company. D2L is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.

Requirements

• Over the top energy and drive to deliver commercial success
• Deep experience 1EdTech standards
• Leadership of integration strategy and application platforms
• Create, socialize, align, and measure strategies in support of the higher-level vision
• Ability to research, define, measure and report on business fundamentals for a product or portfolio of products
• Strong communication and interaction skills - need to be extremely comfortable presenting to internal executives, stakeholders, and external customers, and managing customer expectations
• Ability to influence peers and stakeholders to achieve strategic priorities
• Identifies future opportunities and develops action plans to best utilize the opportunity
• Demonstrates positive, professional, and credible reputation both internally and externally.  Utilizes networks and working relationships to identify strategic opportunities and potential partnerships
• Leads by Example with personal and professional integrity, high accountability and say/do ratio
• Boundaryless collaboration and influence skills both within team, peer group and broader organization. Effective communicator with a proven track record of
• Delivers Awesome Outcomes : Strategic mindset and business acumen, with strong prioritization skills and a focus on organizational outcomes vs. team tasks. Effective problem solver, able to achieve results individually and through others, in fast paced, deadline-driven environments
• Talent Magnet : Talent-focused leader, with demonstrated ability to coach, build and lead a high performing, diverse team
• Better, Smarter, Faster : An agile learner, with a growth mindset, attention to detail and organizational skills. An operationally minded leader, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation
• Wins Hearts and Minds : An effective communicator, with the ability to connect the why and the what. A change agent, with proven delegation, motivation, and team building skills
• Success in growing market share with B2B SaaS products, and improving product impact velocity
• Minimum 7 years of product management experience in B2B SaaS products across hundreds of customers and 100K+ users
• 10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS industry, at least 3 years in Integrations and Application Platforms
• Degree or Diploma in computer science, engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Direct D2L’s Integrations and Application product strategy and roadmap definition, focused on achieving business results
• Make it easy for customers to integrate their key systems (e.g. SIS, CRM, HCM) with D2L
• Enable people to easily configure and manage 3rd party learning apps they want to use in conjunction with D2L
• Enable software partners to accelerate their business by connecting into D2L’s ecosystem
• Make it easy for developers (from customers, partners and internal) to use D2L APIs and tools to build innovative solutions
• Be responsible for the commercial success of our D2L Link product
• Collaborate with D2L Support & Services and partners to ensure client success with integrations
• Build market awareness and excitement for D2L’s Integrations excellence with customers, partners, and industry analysts
• Work collaboratively with Marketing and Sales to develop, enable and execute GTM plans
• Manage your team of product managers, championing a positive high-performing culture
• Collaborate closely with other product managers, Design, and Engineering to launch innovative and value-generating capabilities frequently, test their performance, and iterate quickly
• Advise and seek input from key stakeholders across all phases of the product life cycle
• Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships with industry leading vendors and system implementers to augment the product offering
• Define, monitor, measure, analyze and report regularly on key business, customer and user metrics

Preferred Qualifications

P&L ownership experience for SaaS B2B products is a big plus

Benefits

• Wellness Subsidy
• Equity Grants
• Variable Incentive
• Impactful work transforming the way the world learns
• Flexible work arrangements
• Learning and Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our Catch the Wave Program
• 2 Paid Days off for Catch the Wave related activities like exams or final assignments
• Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more)
• Retirement planning
• 2 Paid Volunteer Days
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Home Internet Reimbursements
• Employee Referral Program
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Employee Recognition
• Social Events
• Dog Friendly Offices at our HQ in Kitchener, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Melbourne