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.

At Savvas Learning Company, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always reexamining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe.

We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.

The Position:

As a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Savvas Learning Company, you’ll be working with a highly-capable team of product leaders, architects, UX designers, and engineers focused on building efficacious learning experiences on Savvas’ flagship learning management system, Savvas Realize. Your primary responsibility will be to define, own, prioritize and deliver on a backlog of features that are all ultimately in support of improving teaching and learning.

What you’ll do:

Collaborate with designers, product managers, business analysts, architects, and engineers to translate high-level business objectives into actionable features and stories with clear acceptance criteria for development by engineering teams.
Use quantitative and qualitative methods to balance business and technical needs.
Surface user and business value in our engineering objectives for prioritization conversations with our product leaders.
Perform acceptance and ad-hoc functional testing of new features.
Effectively manage trade-offs between cost/schedule versus real business benefit/need.
Manage the refinement of business value, ensure the work is planned, organized, and delivered based on priority, identify risks and collaborate with Program Management on mitigation and tracking, communicate effectively and adapt to inevitable challenges.
Manage and coordinate technical integrations across multiple lines of business.
Coach and mentor junior technical product managers and business analysts.
Manage a small group of business analysts.

What you’ll need:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Science or related field.
5+ years experience as a technical product manager (or technical product owner), leading small to medium sized scrum teams that work in agile workstreams.
2+ years experience as a people manager.
High-level demonstrable understanding of typical technology architecture and modern software engineering patterns used in web development at scale.
Experience managing, translating and distilling requirements across multiple products into features and bite-sized user stories with clear acceptance criteria that engineering teams can implement within a sprint.
Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
Self-starter, accustomed to working in a changing environment, who takes pride and ownership in their products.
Excellent communicator, comfortable having technical discussions with both internal and external developers, as well as discussing high level concepts with both internal and external stakeholders.
Comfortable and confident facilitator of communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven ability to work with cross functional teams to drive the implementation of new features as well as resolve operational issues.
Strong preference for candidates with experience in K-12 education.
Strong preference for candidates with relevant agile experience and product owner certifications (e.g., CSPO).
Strong preference for candidates that are familiar working with Amazon AWS.

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

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