Sr Product Manager - Taxonomist

Position Overview

Skillsoft is currently seeking a curious and insightful Sr Product Manager – Taxonomist to join our Role and Skills Platform Team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in education, skill mapping, and program management. They will be responsible for identifying insights about skill-based organizations, maintaining the quality of organization's skill taxonomy, ensuring that it is properly implemented in the digital learning platform and platform integrations and managing quality improvements based on the needs of customers and the business.  

This includes providing guidance on product dependencies, prioritizing needs, and making tradeoff decisions that impact releases. The Associate Product Manager is responsible for defining the scope of present and future taxonomy capabilities and will work closely with Engineering, Quality Assurance, User Experience Design, Marketing Communications, Sales, Customer Support and Consulting Technical Services departments. 

OPPORTUNITY HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Support customers’ requests to integrate their proprietary skill taxonomies and map our skill data accordingly. 

• Research external trends and analyze customer data to identify emerging skills for inclusion in the taxonomy. 

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to create a comprehensive and relevant skill taxonomy 

•  Manage and update the skill taxonomy in the digital learning platform  

• Use digital learning activity reports to assess and improve the effectiveness of the taxonomy  

• Work with a user-friendly digital platform and comprehensive reporting tools  

• Receive ongoing support and training to stay updated with any enhancements or changes in the digital learning platform 

• Collaborate with management and other product owners to build a comprehensive product strategy 

• Actively manage and maintain the product roadmap and backlog of user stories 

• Research, document and drive changes to products including new features, minor enhancements, and defects 

• Participate in an Agile process with Engineering and QA to manage and groom the backlog of work, refine requirements, estimate work effort and plan day-to-day product development activities 

• Assist in conducting market research and analysis of competitive landscape 

• Contribute to and review product release notes, user manuals and training material 

• Work with cross-functional teams to help develop and implement a go-to-market plan 

• Support product release activities including release planning, product training, demonstrations, and customer presentations 

• Provide on-going product support to direct sales and channel sales organizations helping them to understand product positioning and key benefits 

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software Product Management  

• Experience in curricula development and internal stakeholder management 

• Adaptable and able to modify and update the taxonomy based on organizational needs  

• High proficiency using python, PowerBI, SQL Query and other data analysis tools 

• Experience with 3rd party integrations and system automation  

• Meticulous and highly analytical  

• Comfortable with technology and navigating digital learning platforms  

• Strong collaborator with excellent communication skills  

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills 

• Ability to work in fast-paced, entrepreneurial start-up environment 

• Strong organization skills 

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies 

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (ideally the SAFe Agile Framework) 

• Domain expertise including Web-based Learning and/or Training Business is desired 

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence or other Agile software development tools is desired 

• Experience working with virtual teams is desired