Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content.

Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today’s classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.

Our comprehensive solutions for core curriculum, and supplemental and intervention programs - supported by an array of professional development services - allow teachers to use data to inform classroom practices and tailor instructions to an individual’s abilities and learning styles.

Position Overview

This role is a critical member of the Product Technology organization and is responsible for facilitating the continuous delivery of value to customers. This position is highly collaborative and requires coordination with development teams, technical leadership and product/business leadership. Primary responsibilities include facilitating planning events, coordinating cross-domain dependencies, cross organization dependencies, mentoring and coaching others, acting as an Agile Coach and ensuring all stakeholders are kept up to date on delivery progress.

Primary Responsibilities:

Optimizes the flow of work across multiple agile teams throughout the product development life cycle.
Motivates and enables others to take accountability to streamline product delivery process, efficiently manage large and complex product launches across multiple teams.
Nurtures a culture of trust, transparency and accountability within and across teams through clear, repeatable, and measurable processes.
Leverages data and metrics to derive insights and continuously identify improvement opportunities. Drive these improvement opportunities to fruition.
Be the champion of Agile Software Product development processes within a Value Stream and mentor Product Owners and Engineers to follow agile practices.
Operates as a “player/coach”, leading by example and actively seeking opportunities to address pain points for internal stakeholders. This includes understanding the problem space, designing a solution, and prioritizing the work based on the value, impact, and effort.
Serves all members of the Product Technology organization responsible for developing and delivering our products by:
- Responding to internal and external inquiries in a timely fashion
- Proposing and implementing process improvements
- Anticipating and removing blockers
- Coordinating communication within and across groups
- Understanding commitments, targets, scope, investment, milestones, velocity, and capacity to forecast delivery timelines.
- Manages complex program workstreams that impact multiple product teams, proactively surfacing risks and driving decisions in partnership with engineering, product management, operations, business stakeholders, vendor partners and other groups to deliver successful business outcomes
- Facilitates Scrum of Scrums and other working sessions as needed for smooth team collaboration within cross-functional efforts.
- Ensuring a comprehensive view of the team's work is documented and tracked.
- Proposes and implements process improvements and operational frameworks that enable the scrum team to reach their potential while satisfying business obligations and supporting organizational goals.
- Creates and manages information radiators that surface planned work, communicate progress, and support internal stakeholder needs.
- Manages/leads/mentors other Program Managers and Project Managers to provide the above across a collection of Domains/Programs.

Shared Accountabilities:

Support cross-functional planning requirements and remain flexible to changing market needs.
Adopt Agile methodologies and best practices, regularly reviewing sprint outcomes to seek opportunities for improvement and inform future planning.
Build a culture of trust and accountability by regularly completing sprint commitments and delivering incremental value to customers.
Clearly define deliverables to set expectations, plan work, and allocate budget and resources within and across teams.
Maintain a transparent delivery process to ensure stakeholders can monitor progress.

Leadership:

Prioritize what matters for student outcomes and continually keep the team focused on the goals.
Demonstrate transformative leadership skills to build great teams and foster a healthy, high-performing culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact.
Build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders both within and across functions inside and outside the organization.
Demonstrate strategic conceptual thinking coupled with a commercial and operational execution-oriented mindset.
Strong ability and experience in implementing policies, controls and procedures.
Measure what we manage – create a data-disciplined organization.
Approach problems from a systems perspective, defining connections, linkages, and interdependencies.
Eliminate obstacles that affect organizational performance.
Build a culture of collaboration and teamwork across organizational boundaries.
Create a culture with systems and processes that enable cross-functional teamwork.
Show consistency between words and actions, gaining people’s trust and respect.

Qualifications:

BA or BS in a technical discipline, advanced degree strongly preferred, or equivalent industry experience.
Minimum of 5-7 years of hands-on technical project/program management experience implementing customer-facing technology solutions, with minimum 3 years in senior roles with demonstrable growth in scope and complexity of the roles filled; working with senior leadership.
Subject matter expertise in Agile/Scrum software development processes and practices working across large groups with multiple scrum teams working in multiple domains.
Strong experience with software solutions for managing product roadmap planning and software issue tracking (JIRA, Aha!, etc).
Driven collaborative mindset that will push through barriers in the face of ambiguous situations.
Continuous learner, able to adapt quickly to new processes and tools in a challenging and high-growth environment.
Strong intellectual curiosity and desire for excellence around leading teams by example, building products, supporting development, and scaling a business.
Tenacious problem solver able to make routine decisions as well as sound complex analysis in a fast-paced, technical environment.
Powerful communicator, in both verbal and written form, able to articulate concepts and ideas, break through barriers, engage people, and work effectively with others under pressure.
Ability to quickly establish credibility with business and technology stakeholders, including executives, engineers, architects, operations, security, etc.
Capable of planning and executing on both short-term and long-term goals individually and with the team. Able to incorporate strategic objectives, commitments, and day-to-day tasks seamlessly.

Savvas Learning Company provides access to a benefits experience created to offer our employees choice, flexibility, and the opportunity to save money for the future. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tax-advantaged accounts, pharmacy, life insurance, disability insurance, matching 401(k), and paid time off. Our benefits are part of a total package that is carefully designed to support the total well-being of our employees.

Savvas Learning Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Savvas Learning complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Savvas prohibits discrimination against individuals based on race, color, region, national origin, sex, age, disability, and other protected group status. We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Savvas Learning is an affirmative action employer and participate in E-Verify. E-Verify Know Your Rights

"Notice to California applicants: Information collected and processed as part of your Savvas Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Savvas' California Applicant Privacy Notice."

Join edtech.com

Thanks - you're signed up.

Principal Technology Program Manager

Graphic Designer

Technical Product Manager - CRM

Lead Game Designer

Technical Project Manager

Scrum Master II