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Summary

The Technology department is recruiting for an experienced product manager to serve as a Moodle web application product expert combining development knowledge, industry expertise and web delivery leadership.  The role defines and executes a web application product vision and roadmap that delivers best in class solutions for the online education industry.  

Responsibilities  

Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Lead the full product development lifecycle including requirements management, design, build and release management  
• Drive a prioritized solution set based on detailed, iterative discussions with internal stakeholders and external clients that results in a shared understanding of client needs, costs to develop and trade-offs, resulting in a feature set with the highest value  
• Gather and analyze feedback from internal and external constituencies with a focus on continuous improvement to incorporate into a product roadmap
• Define requirements for current and future technology investment by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to current clients  
• Work alongside the engineering team to set development priorities, define and implement a product roadmap through initial launch and subsequent releases
• Develop end-to-end test plans, document test cases and facilitate user acceptance testing to ensure planned changes meet business requirements while maintaining system integrity and reliability
• Serve as an internal and external evangelist for your product offering
• Manage focus groups to gather usage metrics and usability experience
• Communicate and publish product updates to facilitate internal and external awareness  
• Create and communicate vision for assigned product across the team and the organization
• Research reported issues with systems and processes and translate into enhancement requests

Requirements  

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required, preferably in a technology or business related discipline
• 8+ years leading web initiatives demonstrating expertise in requirements management, web development, usability engineering, information architecture and project management
• Experience with systems development lifecycle and system management processes, including requirements management, design, configuration and user acceptance testing
• Proven experience developing web technology roadmaps and presenting to internal stakeholders and external clients
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, building consensus among diverse teams of peers, subject matter experts and senior management
• Experience leading projects and managing technology partner relationships
• Excellent facilitation, presentation and communication skills  
• Exceptional organization, problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience in an Agile development environment preferred  
• Self-motivated, able to effectively deal with a certain degree of autonomy and capable of making sound business decisions
• Experience with higher education technology preferred
• Experience leading web integration projects leveraging open source developments preferred
• This position requires up to 20% travel

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.