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.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Pay Range: $109,000.00 - $196,200.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Informing Product Research and Discovery

• Ensure that our product discovery processes include a strong "outside-in" view - i.e., sufficient market validation to support certificate/product scoping, pilot, launch, and/or enhancements. Where gaps exist, plan for appropriate research and/or data gathering to further the work of product discovery and scoping.

• Inform and influence the combined B2B and B2C research agenda (including scope of research needs, specific key questions of interest, and prioritization/timeline of research needs).

• Partner closely with other leaders across Academy and the WGU ecosystem to identify points of experimentation, learning, and future co-development.

• Push and develop the team's understanding of certificate product strategy, our competition, and the needs of our B2B target markets (and existing partners).

• Establish recurring, direct feedback loops through which we capture B-B input for potential future offerings (pre-concept).

• Stay abreast of industry, market, and competitive trends. Support efforts to keep the senior management team informed of key industry, competitive, and product trends.

• Provide guidance on product positioning and messaging, in close partnership with Marketing.

   

Lead and Mentor Team

• Lead a product discovery team; foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture. Hire, manage, and support the development of program managers to help enhance their skills and grow their careers.

• Coach the team of program managers who collaborate across WGU's ecosystem to design early-stage product concepts; influence prioritization, exchange ideas and learnings.

• Create clarity out of ambiguous problem spaces; quickly focus the team's effort in the most valuable direction.

• Develop a deep understanding of our target learners, and use that knowledge to identify areas of improvement, recommend, and implement data-backed improvements to in-market certificates.

   

Influencing Product Strategy and Prioritization across WGU Ecosystem

• Influence senior leadership team decision-making by crafting a compelling storyline for product innovations with actionable recommendations, backed by accurate and impactful data.

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Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, relig ion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.