Product Owner

HMH India
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is a learning technology company committed to delivering
connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student
outcomes. As a leading provider of K-12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention
solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school
districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.
HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.
HMH Technology India Pvt. Ltd. is our technology and innovation arm in India focused on
developing novel products and solutions using cutting-edge technology to better serve our
clients globally. HMH aims to help employees grow as people, and not just as professionals.

Product Owner (Product Manager)

**About the role**:

- Contribute to Agile product development team(s) as Product Owner, attending daily

Scrum meetings, keeping Scrum artifacts visible, helping resolve impediments to the
team, and assisting with backlog maintenance, sprint planning and review meetings
- Develop and maintain a healthy backlog for new requirements in line with defined

strategy and vision for platform and learning initiatives
- Articulate the vision and roadmap in long
- and short-term planning and business case

development efforts
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to gather clarity on requirements and

expectations
- Manage priorities and project deliverables to support delivery of high-quality

functionality on schedule that meets customer needs
- Liaise between project teams and internal stakeholders (e.g. engineering,

editorial/learning architecture, design, QA, etc.) to collect and synthesize feedback,
manage/align project schedules, and motivate team
- Work collaboratively with the engineering team to articulate and clarify requirements
- Perform risk assessments and analyses to prioritize and make trade-offs to ensure on

timely project completion while maintaining educational integrity of products
- Proactively communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels including

project documentation, follow up and status reports to ensure on-time product and/or
feature deliveries.

**Skills & Experience**:

- 3 to 6 years participating in or managing cross-functional product development teams
- Strong organizational, communication, and multi-tasking skills
- Innovative team player with the ability to proactively and creatively solve problems
- Passion for creating innovate technology solutions for students and teachers
- Experience leading and managing a feature-rich product roadmap (aligning it to business

drivers, keeping it relevant to internal and external customers and market needs)
- Demonstrated success and experience leading teams with Agile methodologies and tools

such as Jira and Confluence
- Knowledge of education technology (K-12) industry technology trends, user experience

(educators, students, and administrators) and classroom needs
- Strong organizational and communication skills and an ability to present business cases,

vision and reports to all stakeholders
- Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously and make difficult decisions with speed

and accuracy

**Preferred Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in education, business, or technical discipline preferred
- Agile Product Manager/Owner Certification preferred
- Previous work with product or development teams both co-located and distributed

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