Manager - Learning Product Owner

**Job Category**:Sales

**Job Details**:Description:
Love helping sales reps thrive in their roles and have the best careers of their lives? Are you a passionate and experienced sales enablement professional? Do you have a solid understanding of learning combined with leading learning designers to build an amazing learning experience? Join the Global Content and Curriculum team as a Learning Product Owner Our team is responsible for ensuring our Sales organizations are growing their skills and enabled to perform their job.

Your Impact:
Your role as an experienced Learning Product Owner is responsible for: 1) building a vision and roadmap for learning specialization (e.g., sales skills development), 2) coaching a team of Learning Designers to create quality self-paced and instructor led learning experiences for sales employees, and 3) bringing your expertise to a team of passionate enablers, working with them to build a comprehensive curriculum to up-skill sales professionals globally.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**:**Management and Communications**:

- Lead design of learning for the sales role from onboarding to ongoing development and mastery
- Partner with Sales learners and stakeholders across the globe to align learning needs with business challenges and organizational priorities
- Collaborate with regions/business units as champions of the enablement roadmap to design, drive adoption and measure success
- Manage an integrated communication plan of personalized touch points by adapting messages for wide-ranging target audiences from learners to Leadership

**Enablement Design and Execution**:

- Lead a team of Learning Experience Designers to build scaled, online, interactive curriculums and courses from needs assessment to prototyping and implementation
- Take a competency first approach to design courses and curriculums
- Partner closely with learners and stakeholders to co-design, build and manage learning curriculum
- Work with Enablement Delivery Team to pilot and operationalize learning

**Measurement and Continuous Improvement**:

- Drive accountability, ownership, and metrics for the learning outcomes and the impact of the learning
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by actively collecting feedback through various methods (e.g., assessments, focus groups, etc.), evaluating learning effectiveness and recommending changes to optimize the learning experience

**Scrum Framework / Agile Methodology**:

- Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum & Kanban
- Knowledge of Successive Approximation Model or similar agile design frameworks
- Serve as a Product Owner painting the vision of what the product/role based learning is and features/courses to get there
- Incorporate stakeholder feedback to create the highest value product/learning increments each sprint
- Partner with the Agile Coach to build the product backlog and ensure it is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Agile Team will work on next
- Work with Agile Coach on refining backlog, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.

**EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS**:

- A bachelor's degree is required
- A master's degree is preferred

**Required - Professional Experience/Skills**:

- 2 to 3 years previous sales experience; working with and influencing reps and executives
- 3+ years in enablement role or experience with onboarding, coaching or mentoring sales professionals
- Deep knowledge of solution selling with keen understanding of product messaging and positioning
- Mastery of sales skills in the context of discovery, presentations and corporate differentiation
- Adept at learning strategies and designing participant-centered learning to maximize learning outcomes.
- Execute with strong program management skills, including creating and monitoring work-plans, managing against milestones, knowing what to prioritize and why, knowing who to keep informed, why, and how often, and knowing when to escalate.
- Stellar project management skills. Ability to plan, manage and deliver multiple, concurrent, and complex work streams in a matrixed organization with aggressive timelines. Get it done attitude with a strong sense of team and cross-functional finesse
- Ability to connect the dots organizationally, network effortlessly and influence various roles, levels and profiles to drive collaboration and program excellence
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills that span across various cultures and professional backgrounds
- Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum & Kanban

**Desired - Professional Experience/Skills**:

- 1 - 2 years of professional experience in sales learning design
- Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner® is a plus
- Experience with Salesforce products
- Experience working as a Product owner

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