Product Owner

At Sanoma Learning, we all share a deep-rooted passion for education and are committed to support teachers to help all students to reach their potential, so they can be at their best in class.

We are proud of the impact we make together across Europe, local as well as international. As our teams and the scope of our impact grows, so do the opportunities for us to learn from each other – across country borders and areas of expertise. With over 2500 colleagues, we work on seamlessly integrated print, digital and blended learning solutions to help teachers and schools develop the talents of every child. Our people are passionate and committed and always willing to go the extra mile for students, teachers, schools, our shareholders and each other.

We Are Looking For:

Product Owner

MyPortal is a customer-facing application that supports teachers in their daily workflow by acting as a seamless digital companion to physical educational materials. It serves as the central access point for all digital products a school has licensed, creating an integrated and intuitive experience across different learning methods. Focused on usability, clarity, and time-saving functionality, MyPortal helps teachers access lesson resources, manage digital tasks, and discover new products in one streamlined environment.

As a Product Owner in one of MyPortal teams, you will bridge user needs, business goals, and technical delivery by owning a defined product area and translating complex requirements into actionable backlog items. Drawing on strong analytical and collaboration skills, you will investigate user and business needs, define functional and technical requirements, and work closely with UX designers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure scalable, accessible, and data-informed solutions. This role combines hands-on product ownership with a deep understanding of educational workflows, making it ideal for someone transitioning from a business analysis or technical background into product management.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage your team’s backlog ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and alignment with business goals.
• Investigate and analyse business and user needs, translating them into structured requirements.
• Collaborate with the Team lead, UX Designers. Developers and stakeholders to ensure solutions address user needs and educational workflows.
• Create and maintain clear documentation (requirements, flows, diagrams) to support shared understanding across teams.
• Facilitate option analysis with engineers, clarifying trade-offs, dependencies, and risks.
• Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions.
• Ensure scalability and alignment of solutions across multiple markets.
• Embed accessibility standards and inclusive design into product requirements.
• Define and validate analytics tracking requirements with data teams.
• Support the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of production issues and technical debt to maintain product stability and long-term quality.
• Propose and implement improvements to product workflows and delivery processes.

What We Expect From You

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Ability to investigate and clarify business/user needs and impacts
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Skilled in stakeholder alignment and facilitation
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum/SAFe)
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence
• Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria (e.g., INVEST)
• Highly organized with strong prioritization and multitasking abilities
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with UML/BPMN and interpreting diagrams (e.g., sequence, activity)
• Understanding of system architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
• Experience managing dependencies across teams
• Experience in the education or edtech sector, or a willingness to quickly build domain knowledge.
• Familiarity with microservice architecture and multi-market SaaS products.
• Awareness of accessibility principles and inclusive design practices.
• Experience with data-driven decision-making and defining tracking requirements.
• Exposure to UX research outputs (e.g., personas, journey maps).

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.

Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 2500 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million students.

So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?

Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.

Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.

So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?

Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.