About the role

Role overview

Senior Product Manager responsible for the success of a product category (Analytics products). Owns the full product lifecycle—from market analysis and roadmap, to requirements and delivery, to post-release and end of life—to increase adoption, market share, and revenue in K-12, Higher Education, and Corporate markets.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the analytics product/feature roadmap considering viability, customer value, feasibility, and usability (with Engineering and Design).
Gather roadmap input from Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Customer Engagement, and other stakeholders.
Translate organizational strategy and business/market requirements into the product roadmap and backlog.
Convert product vision/roadmap into product requirements: functional needs, use cases/workflow constraints, and success criteria.
Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle in an Agile environment: from use cases to delivery, then post-release and retirement.
Collaborate with Engineering, Design, functional teams, and leadership/executives to ensure unit objectives are met.
Drive product innovation and advocate for product direction; help build industry-leading analytics products/cloud services.
Ensure release candidates meet product requirements across the portfolio.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Architecture, PMO, Implementation, Support, Marketing, etc.) to ensure solutions meet business and market objectives.
Maintain a data-driven product backlog; continuously collect market input (customers, sales, service, competitive intelligence) and update priorities.
Perform feasibility analysis (e.g., ROI), develop business cases, and evaluate build/buy/partner options.
Represent D2L thought leadership at industry events.

Requirements

Strong product management background across the product lifecycle (concept/definition/planning/development/implementation).
Proven ability to deliver high-quality software solutions to market.
3–5 years of software product management experience.
Demonstrated expertise in product planning, market research, competitive analysis, product positioning, enablement, evangelism, and product marketing.
Strong interest in Education and learning analytics.

Nice-to-haves

Education/learning analytics domain experience is an asset.
In-depth experience with at least one of:
- Big Data and Data Warehousing to generate business value
- Business Intelligence (Reporting, basic analytics, predictive and prescriptive analytics) to provide actionable insights.

About D2l

D2L is a technology company focused on education and learning platforms, serving K-12, higher education, and corporate markets. The role centers on product leadership for analytics capabilities across the product lifecycle, from strategy and roadmap through delivery and end-of-life. D2L operates with a global, product-driven engineering and go-to-market organization.