Learning Product Owner, Salt Lake City, UT

About the role

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

Responsibilities

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to own a defined portfolio of products from concept through launch and ongoing iteration
• Owns curriculum and assessment within assigned products, including relevance, quality, technical accuracy, functionality, and assessment validity.
• Implements and ensures adherence to best practices in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of assigned product portfolio.
• Ensures alignment between curriculum and assessment
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure programs meet all accreditation and regulatory requirements.
• Designs scalable and reusable products aligned to learner needs, business priorities, and market demand
• Applies learning science, user experience design, and accessibility best practices to all learning experiences.
• Partners with assessment and development teams to ensure alignment between competencies, assessments, and instructional strategies.
• Ensures designs are implemented as envisioned and delivered in a timely manner.
• Creates playbooks and video walkthroughs for all products within defined portfolio
• Ensures timely delivery of quality programs.
• Partners with assigned Project Managers to oversee multiple products and initiatives concurrently within an agile environment.
• Oversees multiple products and initiatives concurrently within an agile environment.
• Plans, prioritizes,