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Senior Product Manager - Leadership and Business Category Owner
Skillsoft is seeking a Senior Product Manager - Leadership and Business Category Owner to be responsible for defining and driving the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Skillsoft's leadership and business curriculum, with a strong emphasis on market alignment, learner experience, and instructional innovation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally to integrate curriculum strategies into broader business objectives, leveraging insights from market trends, user analytics, and stakeholder feedback. The Senior Product Manager will champion best-in-class instructional design practices, partner closely with product, engineering, and creative teams to optimize content delivery, and represent Skillsoft externally. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, analytical capabilities, deep knowledge of digital learning and instructional design, strong stakeholder management skills, and excellent communication and presentation abilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the learner experience with the leadership and business curriculum
- Work collaboratively across matrixed teams including product marketing, sales, customer success, content creation, and technology, ensuring strategic alignment and seamless integration of curriculum initiatives into the broader business context
- Develop and lead a robust, innovative curriculum and learning strategy for our power skills content, ensuring alignment with market needs, learner preferences, and organizational growth objectives
- Analyze user feedback and usage analytics to assess content effectiveness and engagement, ensuring continuous optimization
- Work closely and create strong feedback loops with marketing and other field representatives to identify market trends, customer needs, and competitive opportunities to shape the product portfolio
Product Development
- Champion innovation by staying abreast of best-in-class instructional design methodologies and learning science trends. Push the organization toward thought leadership in instructional excellence and learner engagement
- Work with the content creative, production and engineering teams to ensure execution of new ideas
- Partner with platform and engineering teams to determine innovative ways to deliver an interactive and engaging experience that both reflects elevated instructional design through platform features ang that meet the current and future direction of the market
- Utilize data-driven decision-making to optimize product performance and user engagement
Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage with customers, partners, and industry thought leaders to gather insights and validate product requirements and strategies
- Represent Skillsoft at conferences, webinars, and other industry events
Skills and Qualification Requirements
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize both qualitative and quantitative data, adept at synthesizing market data, customer feedback, and performance metrics into actionable insights
- Proven experience in market research, user feedback analysis, and data analytics, with the ability to translate insights into strategic decisions
- Background in content creation, content strategy, with a solid understanding of instructional design and digital learning
- Knowledge of the Learning & Development (L&D) industry, the needs of the CHRO, CLO and L&D buyer.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to anticipate market shifts and evolving user needs
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, with experience in public speaking and engaging external executive stakeholders
- Skilled in articulating product strategy and vision clearly to diverse stakeholders
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively in matrixed environments, leading and influencing without direct authority.
- Strong focus on quality, ensuring content consistently meets high standards and aligns with the overall content strategy
- Strong experience working with customers and field representatives
Target salary range for this job requisition is anticipated to be approximately $170,000 to $185,000.
We also offer Enterprise benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, and paid time off.
The company may modify salaries, salary ranges and/or Pay Plans from time to time as it deems necessary.
Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.
Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.
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If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES: We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Skillsoft does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Skillsoft employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Skillsoft Employment Agency Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
Skillsoft is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
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Skillsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Skillsoft ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Skillsoft’s compensation is supported by employee feedback around market-rate pay, bonus opportunities, benefits and total rewards. The company pairs compensation with flexibility, learning access and career development programs that employees describe as part of the overall value of working there.
- Market-aligned pay and bonus opportunities: Employees describe Skillsoft’s compensation as competitive, especially in roles with bonus potential. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite “salary plus bonus potential” as market rate, quarterly bonus access in sales and a strong compensation plan. A marketing employee cited “great pay,” while a solution design architect described Skillsoft as offering a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package.” (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Performance-based rewards: Skillsoft employees point to bonus opportunities as part of the company’s rewards approach. A software engineer said their bonus was “excellent,” while sales employees cite quarterly bonus access as part of their compensation package.
- Benefits as part of total rewards: Skillsoft’s total rewards are also supported by employee comments about health benefits, insurance benefits, flexible time off, remote work and work-life balance. Employees surveyed on external review sites cite health benefits and insurance benefits as strengths, while other employees highlight great benefits, remote-first work and flexibility as part of the employee experience. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
- Growth and learning as added value: Skillsoft’s rewards approach is connected to its employee growth culture. The company provides employees with access to Percipio, Aspire Journeys, role-based pathways, instructor-led training, coaching and CAISY® simulations. Employees describe Skillsoft as a place with “continuous learning opportunities across the tech stack” and “no better place to learn and grow.”
● External signals:
○ Compensation and bonus: Employees on external review sites cite market-rate salary plus bonus potential, quarterly bonus access in sales, a strong compensation plan, “great pay” and an “excellent” bonus as compensation strengths. (Comparably; Glassdoor)
○ Total rewards: Employees on external review sites describe Skillsoft as offering “great benefits,” a “very competitive benefits and total compensation package” and benefits that support work-life balance, flexibility and employee growth. (Glassdoor)
○ Health and insurance: Employees on external review sites cite health benefits, insurance benefits and good health plans as strengths of Skillsoft’s employee experience. Mental health benefits are also listed among Skillsoft’s employee benefits. (Comparably)
○ Flexibility as a reward: Employees on external review sites connect rewards not only to pay, but also to remote work, flexible hours, flexible time off, independence and management that avoids micromanaging. (Glassdoor; Comparably)
Bottom line: Skillsoft supports competitive pay through market-rate compensation, bonus opportunities and a broader total rewards experience that includes benefits, flexibility and career development.
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Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
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