Job Description:

Ascend Learning is a national leader in data driven, online educational solutions for learners, educators and employers in high-growth, licensure-driven professions spanning healthcare, fitness and wellness, skilled trades, insurance, and financial services. We are passionate about accelerating learning while impacting job readiness, employment success and employee retention with the belief that our work changes lives.

Our culture is intentionally results-driven and selfless with a relentless focus on our customers. We believe in trust, transparency, freedom, and responsibility with a commitment to meritocracy, inclusion and diversity of thought. Continual investment in our over 1400 employees is also a core principle realized through ongoing professional development and providing opportunities to grow, develop and lead. Ascend Learning is headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and remote workers in cities across the U.S. and in the U.K.

 

Job Overview:

ClickSafety, a brand within Ascend Learning (Glassdoor rating of 4.1), has an opportunity for an experienced Product Owner to join our team and help grow our Digital-first business and take it to the next level.   In ClickSafety, you’ll be working in a growing business that strives to make a lasting impact on thousands of individuals each year seeking to improve their lives through using our technology-based educational, curriculum and assessment solutions.  As a Product Owner you will make a massive contribution towards our mission, and we have some exciting initiatives just waiting for you to come on board and deliver into the hands of our eager and appreciative customers.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, read on and consider ClickSafety as a place where you can develop your career, make an impact on our customers lives, work with a talented team who care about what we do – and probably have a fair amount of fun while contributing to the cause! 

 

Responsibilities for Product Owner:

• Craft actionable user stories for scrum teams to execute.


• Actively engage in the work being executed by scrum teams.


• Attend and fully participate in scrum ceremonies.


• Communicate requirements and status across the broader development organization and stakeholder community.


• Collaborate and iterate design ideas with User Research, stakeholders and real end users.


• Determine immediate sprint deliverables and those associated with Program Increments (5-6 Sprints) and maintain a prioritized Product backlog.

Qualifications for Product Owner:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience.


• Required 4+ years of demonstrated success as Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role.


• Experience writing solid user stories and using product management and development tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Jira Align).


• Experience working with software development teams, preferably in a scaled agile framework (SAFe) environment.


• Certified Scrum Product Owner® or Certified SAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager, preferred.


• Proven success gaining a deep understanding of stakeholder and user experience to improve stakeholder satisfaction.


• Excellent communication skills to adapt to the unique needs of different audiences.


• Knowledge of Library Management Systems (LMS’s) would be a plus.

 

Candidates should be aware that Ascend Learning currently maintains a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated by their start date.  Ascend Learning is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law. Exceptions to the vaccine requirement may apply for employees living or working in Montana.

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

 

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