Director of strategy - mobile products

Director of strategy - mobile products

Itslearning is an education technology company that is experiencing rapid growth. Since 1999, they have been committed to being the leader in K-12( primary school) learning management systems (LMS). Their learning platform is used by millions of educators, students, parents and administrative staff worldwide, from K-12 to higher education. They are dedicated to education and are passionate about the success of each student.

itslearning is looking for a Director of Strategy that will help define and execute the mobile product vision and strategy, manage the end-to-end lifecycle of features, and define and execute a prioritized mobile product roadmap based on a strong understanding of teacher/student needs, insights and in-depth data analysis. The person in this role will report to the Chief Product Officer as a senior member of the itslearning Product team.

Job Description/Major Responsibilities

• Strategy & vision: Define & evangelize the global strategy and vision for mobile innovation. Collaborate with teams across the organization to translate our current and prospective customers’ needs, organizational goals, and business objectives into a mobile app product strategy. Build business cases and drive approval through established processes. Own and define the mobile product roadmap
• Focus on our users: Integrate usability studies, user research, market analysis, and community feedback into product requirements to ensure our mobile products satisfy user needs/wants and address their pain points
• Ideation: Identify meaningful mobile opportunity spaces and prioritize relevant opportunities, features, capabilities and tools, all informed by customer insight, research, competitive analysis, industry trends and analytics
• Product lifecycle management: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of our mobile app strategy from discovery and design through development and launch. Deliver successful products through an iterative design process incorporating ideation, rapid prototyping, customer feedback/validation and iteration
• Technology: Work across the Product & Technology teams to ensure the broader itslearning platform can support present and future mobile technology requirements. Marshal support for broad technical initiatives to power the vision behind our mobile innovations
• Data & analysis: Utilize data to understand customer needs and behaviors as well as business objectives and enable the team to transform that knowledge into app enhancements and new features

Requirements

• eCommerce and mobile leadership: 3+ years’ experience in leading high performing mobile, product or technology teams. Passionate about the mobile space with proven track record in bringing successful native mobile applications to market inclusive of strategy, ideation, design and delivery
• Mobile marketplace knowledge: Deep understanding of the mobile landscape including technologies, vendors, industry experts and resources. Strong understanding and connection to emerging technologies that will influence roadmaps and unlock business opportunities
• Customer focused: Passionate advocate for teachers & students, with experience in user research and testing methodologies
• Results driven: Performance-obsessed leader who understands fundamental business drivers and KPIs. Ability to build sound ROI-driven business cases for new features and capabilities
• Delivery: Experience leading product, design and technology teams through an iterative design and delivery process that leverages agile principles
• Analytical: Innate curiosity with a strong acumen for web analytics and experimental design
• Communication: Strong communication skills within and across teams. Ability to evangelize, story-tell and present to all levels of the organization
• Team Player: Collaborative team player who can influence and drive results through others. Can build strong ongoing relationships with cross capability partners and influencers
• Decisive: Ability to facilitate cross functional collaboration with fortitude to make tough business calls when necessary

We are looking forward to hearing from you. 

Please provide an English version of your CV, and send to resume@ren-network.com