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• Role Purpose

• This role is responsible for maximising the value created by a multidisciplinary
• squad, serving as the bridge between business priorities, customer needs, and
• the teams that design and deliver learning solutions. The Product Owner owns the
• backlog, prioritises delivery, and drives the continuous evolution of solutions
• while balancing strategic objectives, learner experience, quality, and
• measurable outcomes.

• The role owns the vision for its area of responsibility and creates the clarity
• the squad needs to perform. Through collaboration, transparency, predictability,
• and continuous improvement, the Product Owner ensures that capability
• development initiatives deliver value consistently and sustainably.

• This is not a coordination-only role. It is an ownership position for a
• commercially minded product leader who can translate complex needs into clear
• choices, align diverse stakeholders, and help the squad deliver learning
• experiences that improve organisational performance.

Key Accountabilities

• * Define and communicate the vision, objectives, desired outcomes, and
• priorities for the assigned product area or squad.
• * Connect the learning roadmap to business strategy, operational needs,
• customer expectations, and organisational capability priorities.
• * Maximise value by making clear trade-offs across business impact, urgency,
• learner benefit, effort, risk, and available resources.
• * Champion innovation in learning solutions, including digital formats,
• microlearning, video, gamification, and interactive experiences.
• * Own, refine, and prioritise the capability development backlog, ensuring that
• work is clear, sequenced, and ready for execution.
• * Translate business needs into well-defined, prioritised, and actionable
• requirements for the squad.
• * Establish acceptance criteria for content, courses, learning pathways, and
• other educational deliverables.
• * Maintain a transparent roadmap and backlog that support informed decisions,
• realistic commitments, and predictable delivery.
• * Lead the squad rhythm and ceremonies, including planning, daily stand-ups,
• reviews, and retrospectives, promoting alignment, collaboration,
• accountability, and autonomy.
• * Apply Agile practices such as Scrum and Kanban to manage demand, remove
• blockers, improve flow, and strengthen delivery discipline.
• * Partner closely with subject matter experts, instructional designers,
• multimedia producers, and other specialists to turn priorities into
• high-quality learning products.
• * Foster a culture of experimentation, feedback, shared ownership, and
• continuous improvement.
• * Plan and monitor training projects from discovery through launch, ensuring
• delivery within agreed timelines and quality standards.
• * Align learning strategy, instructional approach, operational requirements,
• and user experience throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• * Validate outputs against agreed acceptance criteria and ensure that quality
• issues are resolved before release.
• * Balance speed and quality to deliver sustainable solutions that can be
• maintained, scaled, and improved over time.
• * Define and track learning and delivery KPIs that demonstrate adoption,
• effectiveness, learner experience, operational impact, and squad performance.
• * Use data, user feedback, and business outcomes to evaluate training
• performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• * Turn insights into backlog decisions, product enhancements, and clear
• recommendations for stakeholders.
• * Promote evidence-based decision-making and a test-and-learn approach across
• the learning portfolio.
• * Build trusted relationships with business leaders, customers, functional
• partners, and delivery teams.
• * Align expectations, communicate priorities and delivery status, and make
• dependencies, risks, and decisions visible.
• * Facilitate productive conversations when priorities compete, using business
• value and evidence to guide trade-offs.
• * Influence without relying on formal authority and maintain alignment across a
• diverse stakeholder network.

Candidate Profile

• Education & Professional Background

• * Degree qualified in Business Administration, Education, Psychology, Human
• Resources, Communications, Educational Technology, or a related discipline.
• * Postgraduate study or specialisation in Project Management, Corporate
• Education, Learning Experience Design, or Product Management is advantageous.
• * Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Project Lead, or in a
• comparable role with end-to-end ownership of priorities and outcomes.
• * Demonstrated experience working with Agile methodologies and
• multidisciplinary squads.
• * Practical experience managing a backlog, prioritising demand, and translating
• stakeholder needs into executable work.
• * Experience in corporate training development, learning management systems, or
• digital learning solutions is advantageous.

• Technical Strength

• * Strong working knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• * Capability in product management, backlog management, prioritisation, and
• roadmapping.
• * Solid project management skills, with the ability to manage scope, timing,
• dependencies, risks, and quality.
• * Experience with Agile work management tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Azure
• DevOps, Microsoft Planner, or equivalent platforms.
• * Ability to define and monitor training KPIs and use learning data to guide
• decisions.
• * Confidence analysing performance metrics, learner feedback, adoption data,
• and business outcomes.

• Mindset & Behaviours

• * Strategic thinker who connects day-to-day priorities with broader business
• outcomes.
• * Clear, confident communicator who can influence stakeholders and simplify
• complex needs.
• * Highly organised, with strong judgement in prioritisation and
• decision-making.
• * Analytical and curious, using evidence to challenge assumptions and improve
• solutions.
• * Skilled negotiator who can align stakeholders around value-based trade-offs.
• * Collaborative leader who creates clarity, trust, accountability, and autonomy
• within the squad.
• * Results-oriented, resilient, and comfortable operating in a fast-changing
• environment.
• * Innovative and improvement-focused, with a strong commitment to learner and
• customer value.

Why Join

• This role offers the opportunity to shape how an organisation builds capability
• at scale. You will have meaningful ownership of the learning product vision,
• direct influence over investment and delivery priorities, and the ability to
• connect learning experiences to measurable business outcomes.

• You will work with a multidisciplinary squad and a broad stakeholder network,
• creating modern, user-centred learning solutions while strengthening Agile ways
• of working. It is an ideal opportunity for a Product Owner who wants visibility,
• autonomy, and the chance to turn complex organisational needs into practical,
• high-impact experiences. 

• #LI-JD1

• GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation
• providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we
• help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change.
• GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and
• talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.

• From our global experience working across thousands of projects and initiatives
• over the past 55 years, we've learned that relationships, business, work,
• innovation, strategy, and transformation are all about people. And, to put it
• simply, GP Strategies is about our people - an extensive global network of
• learning experts. Additional information can be found at www.gpstrategies.com
• [https://www.gpstrategies.com/].

• With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies
• is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and
• revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our
• goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from,
• because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how
• great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.

• GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All
• qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to
• race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related
• conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age,
• veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.