Senior Product Owner, DnA

Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom.

Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide!

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

As a Senior Product Owner, you will own several functional areas of the DnA product and will drive execution of roadmap features for those areas.  You will be joining our product team and working closely with UX, engineering, and other departments to build features. You will drive requirements gathering, design, and the implementation of these features in addition to owning ongoing maintenance for your functional areas. The role requires someone with a background in product or product marketing and extensive DnA experience. 

As a Senior Product Owner, you will:

• Be the expert for your functional areas. 
• Execute on the roadmap priorities outlined by the Senior Product Manager for DnA.
• Collaborate with UX to lead story mapping as a key part of product discovery. 
• Gather input from internal and external stakeholders. 
• Leverage analytics to make good product decisions. 
• Prioritize the scrum team’s work. 
• Create user stories and document requirements in Jira.  
• Lead regular standups and planning meetings with engineering. 
• Provide regular updates and transparency on the team’s work to internal teams. 
• Prioritize issues and work with customer facing teams on bug escalations. 
• Work with UX to implement “delight bugs” each month. 
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure go to market needs are met. 
• Collaborate with other DnA product owners as needed.   

Qualifications

Required Experience & Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of work experience in education or educational technology 
• 5+ years of experience working with DnA 
• 5+ years product or product marketing experience. 
• Knowledge of formative assessment. 
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills 
• Attention to detail, good organizational skills, and ability to handle tasks of high complexity.  
• Ability to negotiate with internal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills.  
• Independent, self-directed and responsive problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. 
• Experience and willingness to work with off-shore or distributed teams. 
• A sense of humor and humility. 

Bonus Points for:

• Experience with software development projects and methodologies. 
• Working knowledge of Atlassian products. 
• Training and certification as a professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or as a certified scrum product owner (CSPO).  
• Experience with story mapping. 

* Minimal travel required – may include up to 10% of travel domestically. 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $82,000-110,000.  This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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