Build the future of learning: join us as Product Manager at H5P Group

In 2024, D2L Acquired H5P to reinforce its dedication to providing powerful learning experiences to transform learning around the world. H5P, is one of the most used EdTech solutions in the world with more than nine-figures end-users. At H5P group we take pride in overseeing the development and maintenance of two integral components: open-source version of H5P and our cutting-edge SaaS offering.

H5P Group is a fast-growing software provider. We help improve the lives of people all around the world by empowering educators to create better e-learning content faster. Our award-winning software is called H5P. H5P has grown to become one of the most widely used ed-tech solutions in the world.

We’re at the beginning of building the most significant ecosystem for interactive content in the world, so this is the perfect time for you to join our team! To support our continued growth, we are actively seeking talented individuals who are passionate about technology and eager to help expand our open-source community beyond its current strong foundation.

The Product Manager, will have a proven track record in driving product roadmaps, balancing strategic priorities with customer needs and business impact. The role will be collaborating with our Product Team working with talented designers and product managers to create great user experiences. You will bring the product vision to life through clear and concise issue descriptions, agile backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and seamless cooperation with design, QA, and developers. The team you will be joining consists of passionate, talented, and creative people looking to revolutionize the way rich content like videos, games, and simulations are created and experienced in the future.

To effectively prioritize and create actionable issues, you will gather insights through interviews, surveys, market research, and collaboration with stakeholders. Success in this role requires curiosity, quick learning, and the ability to apply new technologies and insights to address customer challenges. Creativity and an innovative mindset, combined with a data-driven approach, are essential for delivering impactful solutions.

Please note this is a hybrid position based out of our office in either Tromsø or Oslo. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Exercise curiosity and empathy in order to build products that our customers love.

• Initiate and involve customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders in user empathy and discovery sessions to better understand their challenges.

• Solicit inputs for your roadmap by collaborating with engineering, marketing, sales, customer engagement, and other stakeholders.

• Define a vision for your products and/or features that reinforce a persuasive vision of the future of learning.

• Create strategy for your product or features which identifies market opportunities, grows the product portfolio, and drives the go-to-market execution.

• Actively develop and maintain a data-driven product roadmap to deliver on the product vision and strategy.

• Define end-to-end tactics, milestones and success metrics that are easily understood and measurable.

• In collaboration with engineering and design, translate the product vision and roadmap into feature level details and user stories with success criteria.

• Manage the impact of scope change and priority with all stakeholders.

• Ensure products are delivered on schedule and with high quality results.

• Create the necessary artifacts to communicate initiative goals, scope, solution proposals, and product status effectively.

• Lead the complete product development life cycle in an agile environment from developing use cases to product delivery in market, to post release and end of life.

• Own and define the full product lifecycle as a subject matter expert regarding assigned problems and their resulting solutions.

• Participate and contribute to team rituals (Sprint Planning, Retros, Sprint Demos, Stand-ups).

• Act as the ‘evangelist’ of your product features, internally and externally.

• Represent the 'voice of our customers' to internal teams.

• Clearly communicate the larger product vision and specific product requirements across the organization, from senior executives to agile team members.

• Enable solutions engineers and account executives on product values and features to facilitate great demonstrations for prospects, customers, and partners.

Skills/Competencies:

• A proven track record in driving high-level product roadmaps balancing strategic priorities with customer needs and business impact. Preferably over 5 years of experience in a similar role.

• Experience managing the full product lifecycle.

• Strong cross discipline collaborative skills.

• Strong ability in fostering innovation and collaboration across functions.

• Skilled in presenting roadmaps and market analyses. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to define and implement product strategies aligned with business goals, market opportunities, and long-term growth objectives.

• Preferably someone with a deep understanding of market dynamics within education and technology.

• Proven ability to meet or exceed assigned targets, budgets and deadlines.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Suggested Qualifications/Experience:

MBA and Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related fields of study.

What it's like working at H5P Group and some benefits that you might find attractive: 

• The opportunity to join our fast-growing team and have a great influence on the future of H5P. 

• Be part of changing the future of interactive content. 

• Competitive compensation.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options (Flextime with core time from 9:00 - 15:00). 

• Highly efficient work environment, goal-oriented, and high-spirited.

• Social Events. We're a social and inclusive team that enjoys spending time together beyond work — whether through company events or informal get-togethers. You'll feel part of the group from day one. 

• You will have great opportunities for career development through internal workshops, training and various work tasks.  

• The ability to influence the development of our products, and a place where you will quickly see the impact of your work. 

• Lunch contribution and free snacks 

• Fitness room at work in the Oslo office that employees are free to use.

• Exceptionally engaged, dedicated, and highly skilled colleagues.

• Being part of H5P means joining the D2L family—a global organization of over 1,000 talented professionals. This opens doors to exciting cross-team collaborations and gives you the chance to grow your career, explore new roles, and make an impact far beyond your immediate team.

H5P Group is a fast-growing software provider. We improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world by empowering educators to create better e-learning content faster.

Our award winning software is called H5P. H5P is a framework made to allow everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content and is easily integrated in different sites. H5P offers templates allowing users to create rich and engaging content without any design or programming skills. We currently offer over 60 templates including Interactive Video, Virtual 360 Tours and Branching Scenario. H5P.com is our SaaS version of H5P, which is hosted on AWS. It scales automatically, has automatic failovers for most components and we perform rolling updates with no downtime.

H5P has, in a short period of time, grown into one of the most widely used ed-tech solutions in the world, serving customers that include Ivy League universities, leading car manufacturers, and publishers worldwide. Backed by a growing team of over 30 dedicated employees across our offices in Tromsø, Oslo, and Bergen, we are just at the beginning of building the world’s most significant ecosystem for interactive content.