Remote Senior Product Manager, Data and Analytics

Summary

Join D2L as a Sr. Product Manager to drive the success of your product category, from overall product roadmap to specific product requirements through to delivery to the market and end of life.

Requirements

• 3-5 years’ experience in software product management
• Strong interest in Education and learning analytics. Educational space experience an asset but not essential
• In-depth experience in at least one of the following areas: Leveraging Big Data and Data Warehousing tools and techniques to generate business value
• Using Business Intelligence (Reporting, Basic Analytics, Predictive Analytics and Prescriptive Analytics) to provide actionable insights and stories to business users
• Building enterprise software and infrastructure / tools
• Strong technical background in Analytics, BI, Big Data
• Product management of analytics enterprise Cloud services and data visualizations (big plus)
• Highly quantitative, analytical and business-minded. Ability to solve complex problems in an organized way
• Product management experience focused on turning raw data into information and then knowledge that you can act on to improve results
• Ability to 100% own initiatives. Self-motivated and can operate and execute with a sense of urgency, discipline, decisiveness and focus
• Proven ability to meet or exceed assigned targets, budgets and deadlines
• Understand and articulate customers’ viewpoints and perspectives, the problems and opportunities customers face in their businesses and how customers use, or could use, our product(s) to address them, balanced against our business context and constraints
• Proven ability to confidently and clearly communicate both technical and business topics to a variety of groups, including customers, senior leadership team, designers, architects and developers
• Demonstrated experience working effectively with a cross-functional team consisting of Engineering, Design Architecture, Product Management, and Marketing

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the product and feature roadmap for Analytics 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 analytics products or cloud 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

Benefits

• 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