Product Owner - PlanIt New Zealand
Twinkl, New Zealand

Location: New Zealand, remote - work from home

Hourly Rate: $29.50 NZD per hour

Contract: 12 month contract with potential to extend, 25 hours per week

Hiring Manager: Sophie Beuth

Recruiter: Frazer Morton

Closing date for applications: 14th March 2024 (This may be earlier, dependant on interest)

First things first! What is Twinkl? What is Twinkl’s mission?

Twinkl is here to help those who teach. It's what brings us to work every day. We're proud to create educational resources that can be used at each step of a child's learning journey.

Our award-winning resource collection - created by teachers for teachers - provides unlimited supplementary digital and printable teaching resources at an unbeatable value.

We have over a million resources, and new content is added every day. Don’t see what you need? Just ask! We make bespoke resources for our members as part of our world-class customer service promise to help those who teach.

We support educators and children around the world, and we’re committed to transforming lives through education.

Whoever you are, whatever you teach, Twinkl is here for you!

The Role:

We are looking for a candidate who has a specialism in schemes of work and is looking for a new challenge in leading and developing a range of PlanIt teaching resources to support teachers, parents, and children in New Zealand.

Product Owners at Twinkl are responsible for driving forward the vision and aims of established resource collections along with creating innovative and exciting materials that are at the forefront of the education market. They work closely with the product development team to create the right resources at the right time to support the needs of educational professionals. The successful candidate will carry out their role whilst communicating extensively with key stakeholders within and outside the business to achieve the company's core values and focus in New Zealand.

This exciting and varied role will allow you to play a key role in the development of the most popular teaching materials in the world and help meet the needs of thousands of educators.

Ongoing projects/ how you’ll spend your day:

• Communicating with the development team to share product vision and priorities;
• Planning and coordinating future releases of resources to reflect sprint planning in month-to-month production planning, including balancing conversions vs new units;
• Building a positive working relationship with the PlanIt writing, editing and design team members.
• Support the development team with their CPD;
• Collaborating with other Product Owners, customer-facing teams, and key areas of the business;
• Understanding the pain points affecting our customers and identifying ways of addressing them;
• Reporting on product performance and creating and following a product strategy;
• Overseeing the product journey and communicating this with stakeholders;
• Conducting competitor analysis, market and field research to inform product judgments;
• Researching and developing innovative concepts within the market;
• Supporting partnership opportunities.

In this role, you will learn:

• Prioritisation of product releases;
• Stakeholder management;
• Effective market and competitor research techniques;
• Product Owner mindset;
• Development of business propositions;
• Innovation techniques and principles.

You’ll work with:

• NZ Country Manager;
• Other New Zealand Product Owners;
• NZ PlanIt team

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Demonstrate a self-motivated work ethic, be passionate, driven, and love what you do;
• Be organised, able to work to deadlines, and manage your time effectively;
• Have a passion for schemes of work and helping children develop;
• Be able to communicate with colleagues and our external partners effectively;
• Have analytical and problem-solving skills to make data-driven and business decisions;
• Have knowledge and experience of the New Zealand Curriculum and an understanding of the target market;
• Have experience and/or a keen interest in developing a Product Owner mindset.

We're interested in anyone who meets one or a combination of the following:

• Qualifications: undergraduate or postgraduate in primary education or appropriate equivalent degree;
• Minimum of 3 years relevant and recent primary teaching experience and market awareness.

Soft Skills:

Job Rewards and Benefits